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A supposed leak full of sensitive Nintendo information published earlier this week on the message board NeoGAF looked a little more solid this morning thanks to some new corroboration. If it’s all true, we may be seeing Nintendo’s next console—along with both Wii U and NX versions of Zelda—later this year.

On Monday, a NeoGAF poster named Trevelyan9999 published a large list of Nintendo information that he claimed was from “an internal US marketing budget and scheduling overview for 2016.” Trevelyan, who also posts YouTube videos covering various Nintendo rumors, said the company’s mysterious new hardware, code-named NX, will be out this holiday season. He also listed 2016 marketing budgets for Wii U ($34.5 million), 3DS ($56.25 million), and the new Zelda ($10 million)which Trevelyan said will still come to Wii U as promised and will also show up on the new machine.

Purported Nintendo leaks are a dime a dozen, of course—every year someone comes up with a big fake list of games they claim are coming to Nintendo platforms. But this one has proven to be at least partially true.

In the post, Trevelyan offered a list of the first-party 3DS games scheduled for the rest of this year. Other than the games we know about, the list mostly features codenames like “Caviar F” and “Torte City,” as well as a nugget that’s proven pretty interesting as of this morning: “Pokémon 20th Anniversary game ‘Niji.’”

It’s no big shocker that Nintendo is releasing new Pokémon games this fall, asthe company announced this morning. What’s way more interesting is that “Niji” codename, which hadn’t been announced or publicized anywhere before Trevelyan9999's post. As it turns out, the new Pokémon games are called “Sun” and “Moon.” But a look at the Pokémon website this morning revealed a curious file name:

 

Materials sent to press announcing the new Pokémon games also used “Niji” in their file-names for the Sun and Moon logos. It’s common for video game logos and press material to use a game’s codename. Sometimes, the developers who create those assets don’t actually know what the final titles will be. Curiously, Nintendo has since changed the logo’s file-name on its website from “niji-11-en” to “sun-moon-11-en.”

Also curious: Last night, Trevelyan9999 removed videos from his YouTube channel and pulled articles from his website that referred to this leak. It’s unclear whether he did this of his own volition or because Nintendo’s lawyers got involved. When I reached out, he declined to comment. We’ve also reached out to Nintendo for comment.

So what does all of this mean? Nothing is certain—and we have not been able to confirm any of this with our own sources—but the fact that Trevelyan9999 nailed the Niji codename adds some fascinating credence to a leak that might be real. It’s possible that only portions of the leak are true and that others are incorrect or outdated, as was the case with the giant Xbox leak that hit NeoGAF in early 2014. That leak correctly revealed information about unannounced games like Scalebound and Crackdown 3 but was incorrect on other, minor information, like the exact details of the Halo collection.

It’s still not clear exactly what the NX will be. Pundits have theorized, based on Nintendo’s hints, that the mysterious piece of hardware may be a hybrid portable and console.

Whether or not this leak is real, this should be a fun year for Nintendo fans. Nintendo has said they’ll unveil the NX by E3, which is in June.

 

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Here is the NX/Zelda/PKM rainbow thread I posted before the Pokémon Sun&Moon trademark leaked, check it out if you haven't read it

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=213937&page=4#5

 

One thing we can know for sure is that leaked was real 



 

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Yeah it's legit. NX coming this year. Still won't be enough for some people, though.



If you look at the licence plate on the green car in the development images shown in the direct, you can see a distinct rainbow shape and familiar colours.. That's more proof to me that this is the "Pokemon Niji" (Rainbow) game. Seems familiar to Hawaiian number plates too, as picked up by a Japanese forumgoer over on 2ch. Possible setting?



RingoGaSuki said:
If you look at the licence plate on the green car in the development images shown in the direct, you can see a distinct rainbow shape and familiar colours.. That's more proof to me that this is the "Pokemon Niji" (Rainbow) game. Seems familiar to Hawaiian number plates too, as picked up by a Japanese forumgoer over on 2ch. Possible setting?

People already suspected South Pacific because of the building they showed, so that's believable. 



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Still don't believe that 3DS list because the codename games can be literally anything so anyone could 'leak' those..

As for the NX releasing in 2016, I'm still doubtful for that, but wouldn't be surprised either way



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Was just reading about this on gamespot... As a Wii u owner I hope the rumor that Zelda will also launch on the nx is true, as it being an exclusive won't help anything and they really need a decent launch lineup to have a chance of getting anyone's attention.

When you look at their release schedule it really does seem like any big planned games for the Wii u and even 3ds appear to be releasing by the end of the year, though they generally don't announce too early. I just hope they're not rushing the release of the new console to the point that few games will be ready for it... It already sounds like 3rd party games are still a way off.



This is like that Tidus guy. Sometimes they got stuff right, sometimes they don't.

spemanig said:
Yeah it's legit. NX coming this year. Still won't be enough for some people, though.

I'm more worried about the ones that will assume NX is a new home console and that Zelda Wii U = Zelda NX.



Nem said:

This is like that Tidus guy. Sometimes they got stuff right, sometimes they don't.

spemanig said:
Yeah it's legit. NX coming this year. Still won't be enough for some people, though.

I'm more worried about the ones that will assume NX is a new home console and that Zelda Wii U = Zelda NX.

What exactly did Tidus get right? 



3DS list might be real, but NX won't launch in 2016. Everybody who "leaks" that is obviously a faker.



Soundwave said:
Nem said:

This is like that Tidus guy. Sometimes they got stuff right, sometimes they don't.

I'm more worried about the ones that will assume NX is a new home console and that Zelda Wii U = Zelda NX.

What exactly did Tidus get right? 

God knows. I don't stalk the guy, but i'm sure hes gotten something right once just on the basis of spitballing.