Pokemon Switch - 2019

[Prothescar]

new rumor about this every week

[Kaslo]

new rumor about this every week

No joke lul. This one seems supported by Emily Rogers and hence why it's picking up a lot of steam.

[Kaslo]

Now Eurogamer reporting they are at an event in Japan...

https://twitter.com/eurogamer/status...06187434070017

[Prothescar]

Niantic is at the event, Game Freak is not. It's the pokemon GO linked spinoff.

edit: nvm, now sources saying Game Freak is there.

edit2: According to Eurogamer, two new Pokemon games for switch this year. Game Freak is developing 2 new games; one for Smartphones and one for Switch. There will also be a new core RPG and a new device that syncs the Switch and Smartphone versions of the game together. Smartphone/Switch linked game is basically Minecraft Pokemon called Pokemon Quest.

edit3: just gonna post the link to the site since idk if Eurogamer is safe to embed from. https://t.co/o4V0yickwg

edit4: https://twitter.com/mochi_wsj/status...812225/video/1

edit5: new Pokeball peripheral to go with the core RPG for switch. Will be set in Kanto and you start the game with Pikachu/Eevee. It will be titled Let's Go! Pikachu and Eevee.

edit6: https://twitter.com/ynakamura56/stat...34351417769985

[Kaslo]

[Prothescar]

You don't fight pokemon to catch them. It uses the pokemon go catching method. Ugh...

[Johnblaze]

And this just forced my hand on my wife bugging me to buy a 2nd switch for herself. She's been waiting for this game forever.

[Prothescar]

2-player co-op is local only. Makes catching pokemon "easier". I'm still personally pretty bummed about the capture method and hopefully the next generation coming 2nd half 2019 doesn't use it.

[Karbuncle]

Yah, it did nothing to make me want to buy it. The PokemonGO method of catching Pokemon turns me off to it, and I still play PokemonGo regularly. It feels like its only there to get some of that casual crowd that boomed with the initial launch of PoGO, to be recognizable to that crowd. I'm all for new crowds being attracted to games but IDK what its going to spell for the game as a whole.

Namely, which we seem to be ignoring, if you just catch Pokemon like in PoGO, how the fuck do you level up and train Pokemon? Trainers only? The combat system showed what seems to be the normal turn based with 4 learned moves... are we using Candy/Dust like in PoGO? This makes me ask a lot of question about how progressions going to work, IV's, EV's, etc, or if they're just taking a big step back in terms of the complexity of "late game" Pokemon in order to capitalize (Albeit a little late) on the PoGO craze?

Either way, I'm not dismissing the game until we know a -lot- more about it, but this makes me worried its just going to be, well, a gimmick.

One positive way I can look at this, optimistically, is that you Battle/Fight Pokemon like normal and the Catch Mini-game only shows up when you go to catch the Pokemon. But based on that gameplay in that video, seems a bit unlikely, though its definitely my "Best case scenario" as the interactive Pokemon catching could be fun.

[Prothescar]

The wya the pokemon are just sitting there on the overworld and stuff just makes me think it's pokemon go with a story and trainer battles added to it tbqh.

[jmc]

Really hope you can turn off the go style catching

[Karbuncle]

The wya the pokemon are just sitting there on the overworld and stuff just makes me think it's pokemon go with a story and trainer battles added to it tbqh.

God i really fucking hope not.

Unless it bombs and they learn a valuable lesson.

Then I hope so.

[Prothescar]

unless it bombs

hahahaha no way. even if it's the dumbest thing ever it's going to sell millions of copies and millions of switch consoles. nintendo stock is already rising by ridiculous amounts.

[Karbuncle]

hahahaha no way. even if it's the dumbest thing ever it's going to sell millions of copies and millions of switch consoles. nintendo stock is already rising by ridiculous amounts.

Yeah. Yeah it will ._.

[jmc]

Quest is out today?

[Prothescar]

Pokeball peripheral is $50 and Japan only atm. Pass

edit: pokemon have CP values and you level them with sand/candy like pokemon Go. yeaaaaaaaaaaaah...

[Kaslo]

Pokemon Company confirmed this is not the "core" title announced at E3 last year. That title is releasing in 2nd half of 2019.

[jmc]

Pokemon Company confirmed this is not the "core" title announced at E3 last year. That title is releasing in 2nd half of 2019.

And that’s gonna be a proper Pokémon game

[Karbuncle]

Noooooo.picture

Pokemon Company confirmed this is not the "core" title announced at E3 last year. That title is releasing in 2nd half of 2019.

But maybe yes!

[Kaslo]

And that’s gonna be a proper Pokémon game

Correct. This is just a "fun" remake of Pokemon Yellow.