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Nintendo World Report's 2014 Predictions
« on: January 06, 2014, 07:29:56 PM »

Join the NWR staff as we look deep into our imaginary crystal ball.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/feature/36317

Welcome to Nintendo World Report’s 2014 Predictions. In this Feature you will see different staff members take a stab at some of the things they expect to see happen in 2014.

Many of these predictions will surely be wrong, but this is also where everyone can lay down their chips and potentially gain bragging rights for making a correct guess. It’s all part of the fun and will surely be a great re-read by the end of 2014, likely to be full of laughs by that point.

So join us by commenting on our predictions, or by sharing your own, in the Talkback section below. You might just be able to tell us, “I told you so.â€


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Re: Nintendo World Report's 2014 Predictions
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2014, 07:55:15 PM »
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So join us by commenting on our predictions, or by sharing your own, in the Talkback section below.

The NWR Forums have already beat you to it and started a prediction thread in General Gaming. Seems like relewis2011 must have done something to upset the staff that they created a new prediction thread to shut his down. lololololol.

Of course, I've most likely nailed it already in the prediction department as seen in that thread but there is a whole year for some surprises to occur so I won't declare total victory just yet. I'm playing it safe this year! Too many close calls last year.
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Re: Nintendo World Report's 2014 Predictions
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2014, 11:02:19 PM »
The Majora's Mask 'remake' will be the same treatment of ' link to the past' aka link between worlds and have similar or same world map and similar if not same characters just different background.




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Re: Nintendo World Report's 2014 Predictions
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2014, 12:56:35 AM »
Well copy paste t8me

My wild and absolutely crazy prediction is that people will complain there aren't enough games on the wii u

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« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2014, 12:58:06 AM »
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Re: Nintendo World Report's 2014 Predictions
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2014, 03:23:02 PM »
Wow, I had no idea it's DK's 20th Birthday.
I would love a Donkey Kong Country 1, 2, & 3, but doesn't Rare own the rights?
Isn't that why I can't buy them on the Wii Virtual Console?

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Re: Nintendo World Report's 2014 Predictions
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2014, 04:43:30 PM »
Nintendo owns the rights to Donkey Kong. They kept all their intellectual properties and anything Rare created for Nintendo's own franchises, meaning characters like King K. Rool and Krystal stayed with Nintendo while Rare kept their own IPs like Banjo-Kazooie, Killer Instinct, and Conker. It gets a little hazy with Diddy Kong Racing, but I think all of those characters went to Rare besides, of course, Diddy Kong.

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« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2014, 04:58:39 PM »
Well, if Diddy Kong Racing DS is any indicator, they only removed Conker the Squirrel and Banjo the Bear as selectable characters leaving the rest of the roster intact. I'd take that as a sign that Microsoft didn't care about those remaining characters or that Nintendo still had the rights to them.
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« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2014, 05:50:06 PM »
Nintendo owns the rights to Donkey Kong. They kept all their intellectual properties and anything Rare created for Nintendo's own franchises, meaning characters like King K. Rool and Krystal stayed with Nintendo while Rare kept their own IPs like Banjo-Kazooie, Killer Instinct, and Conker. It gets a little hazy with Diddy Kong Racing, but I think all of those characters went to Rare besides, of course, Diddy Kong.

So does that mean that I might be able to get my hands on Donkey Kong Country 1-3 someday?
I just assumed there was an issue because about a month before I went to download those games on my new Wii (I was in college when the Wii released so I was behind due to lack of funding and time) all 3 Donkey Kong Country Games were removed from the Virtual Console. I would love to buy all 3 of them.
I would also love to play DK 64 as I've never played that one, but it's my understanding that it never made it onto the Virtual Console at all.
I really hope they really do release these this year.

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Re: Nintendo World Report's 2014 Predictions
« Reply #9 on: January 07, 2014, 06:54:37 PM »
I can actually see all of Justin's predictions come true, even if I don't agree with all of them, they seem pretty realistic.

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Re: Nintendo World Report's 2014 Predictions
« Reply #10 on: January 08, 2014, 09:09:24 PM »
Nintendo making new F-Zero? HAHAHAHAHAHAA

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Re: Nintendo World Report's 2014 Predictions
« Reply #11 on: January 09, 2014, 04:59:36 AM »
Quote from: Neal's Predictions
September 26 - Pokémon Z (3DS)

[/size]Nah, not less than a year after XY for a third version. It's always been at least two years in between, or a year and a half in BW2's case. RS remakes, maybe, we've from "No evidence, they're just the next in line to be remade and now they're actually a significant[/color][/size] reason to do so (3D Pokemon)" to "Well looky here, we have a hidden Mega Lati@s in the code, what could that mean?". But new games this year would have to be announced very soon, like in the next month, to keep up with past announcements' patterns, and I don't think they'll do that when XY are *so* fresh in everyone's mind (the Torchic distribution from launch hasn't even ended yet). Maybe an announcement later in the year of a game to be released in 2015's spring, sure, XY will be 16 months old at that point, and new games will be welcomed by the fanbase.[/color]

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« Reply #12 on: January 09, 2014, 04:11:33 PM »
Eh, X/Y were only 16 months after B2/W2, and I'd think the desperate Nintendo that everyone claims is at play right now will do everything in their power to get a new Pokemon out ASAP. The time between Pokemon games has been steadily decreasing.

Not saying I'm right. I believe I even said that everything after July was a total crapshoot. I just don't think a new mainline Pokemon game in 2014 is ridiculous, even if spring 2015 is the mathematically likeliest scenario.
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Re: Nintendo World Report's 2014 Predictions
« Reply #13 on: January 09, 2014, 10:28:35 PM »
I think everyone can agree that there has to be a second major Fall/Holiday release besides Smash Bros., right? I think it's logical that one of the "Japanesey" games comes in late summer, and smash in mid-Fall, but that still leaves a major title, probably of different core appeal than Smash. And they've already covered their Wii Series bases with Sports Club, Fit U, and Wii Party U. Following the 3D World pattern, I think it's safe to say we won't hear about it until E3. I imagine it's at least a year too soon for Zelda. At this point I'd actually put my money on a surprise console Metroid by someone other than Team Ninja or Retro.

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Re: Nintendo World Report's 2014 Predictions
« Reply #14 on: January 10, 2014, 08:41:41 AM »
Welp, Neal's already 0/2.
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