I was searching through some old posts on the subreddit when I came across this article from Eurogamer published December 2016:
Sources: Nintendo Switch will have GameCube Virtual Console support
Obviously, that didn't come even close to true considering that the Switch doesn't even have Virtual Console.
That made me wonder, what other poorly aged rumors and speculation can you find? Please cite the rumor, don't just mention something you remember existing.
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Not so much a rumour but there were multiple articles in 2013 suggesting Nintendo should stop making consoles and go to making games only. Now with the success of the Switch, this seems like an extra dumb idea
Pokemon Plus and Minus lol
Nintendo is definitely going to localize Mother 3.
Can’t really give a source since the articles I see right now all claim something other than what I remember exactly.
But before Pokémon Sword and Shield, the internet promised us something called Pokemon Stars. I believe an open world kind of idea was mentioned, and we got the Wild Area in the new games. But I think there was also speculation that there’d be more than one region you could visit. Pokémon Stars was going to be so epic, being a home console pokemon game.
However, articles I see right now claim Stars was just going to be the third installment of Sun/Moon. Idr the rumors going down like that tbh.
In any case, we went from rumors of “wow just imagine pokemon on a home console” to quite a shallow experience and the criticism of DS-like graphics. So it’s safe to say those rumors didn’t age well
Legend of Zelda for Wii U to potentially have a new female lead character??
All the Twilight Princess and Wind Waker Rumors have been around since the switch LAUNCHED and nine of them have been true ever
If you mean a poorly-aged rumour as in one which was common and turned out not to be true? There are tons.
Mew behind the truck?
Luigi in SM64? (which sort-of turned out to be true, he was in the dev files in the gigaleak a few years back)
Sonic and Tails in Melee?
As for console rumours, I remember when the Nintendo Revolution was going to be more powerful than the PS3 and feature a heart-rate monitor
When the Mario 35th anniversary happened and we got the 3D collection, “rumours” (which were actually just guesses that were repeated so much they became rumours) instantly surfaced about the Zelda 3D collection.
It was clearly just a kneejerk reaction to Mario, but people were committing seppuku on that hill like there was no tomorrow.
Can’t believe nobody has mentioned Nintendo ON yet. That’s the most obvious one. From when internet rumors were the Wild West. Someone’s (admittedly impressive) college video project got passed around as Nintendo’s post GameCube system. It did vaguely line up with what was known at the time. That Revolution would be a game changer for home consoles. And the DS really did use a then up and coming visually futuristic tech (touch screens) effectively and really brought it into the mainstream. And Nintendo had “attempted” “””VR””” with the Virtual Boy prior.
But yeah the Wii was decidedly not VR. The closest we’ve gotten to what that video was saying was PSVR and the Quest. It’s one of those things that sounds really futuristic and cool until you use it. Pretty much the only Nintendo games I think could work well in VR are Metroid Prime (the obvious one), Star Fox, and F-Zero. Everything else doesn’t really work in that scenario unless you really stretch your imagination. I really don’t think Nintendo could ever get a full system library out of VR.
If a source is really necessary:
https://youtu.be/zX2smM87r14?si=omJ7NQQ31JZfgutj
There’s a lot of old forum threads and posts that are unfortunately lost to the ether now about it. I’m sure if I did some GameFAQs or NeoGaf digging I could find some stuff but I’ve got work in the morning.
“Nintendo Fusion” was going to be the branding for Nintendo’s 9th gen gaming consoles. It would consist of a handheld called the Fusion DS and a home console called the Fusion Terminal. The Terminal specifically would have a custom AMD graphics processor and both consoles would be considerably powerful overall. The name Fusion would refer to the consoles’ ability to connect to each other, or “Fuse” to offer additional gameplay and control options for console games, and allow handheld games to be played on the TV.
Its actually kind of impressive with just how far from the truth Nintendo Fusion ended up being
Switch 4K and Switch Pro 😁
Definitely the leakers that were positive Star Fox Grand Prix was a thing.
Pokemon Stars, it’s also where I feel the pokemon fanbae got a lot more feral after that.
I remember years and years ago reading somewhere that potentially the DS was a third line of consoles and that we’d still be expecting a “Gameboy Advance 2”.
Anything to do with Smash can count. But mainly the fact that Sora would never get in due to Nintendo seemingly not wanting to work with Disney or vice versa. Not helped by the fact that he was actually the winner of the Smash Ballot back in the Wii U era but they passed on him for Bayonetta at the time, so everyone thought he was locked behind too much red tape to get in.
That sentiment has aged extremely poorly.
Mario is dead after March 31st, 2021.