Today the The Pokémon Company announced Pokémon Go, a mobile game that the developer Niantic has been working on for the last few years alongside Nintendo.
The game will use a peripheral called the Pokémon Go Plus that will pair to the player's phone and allow them to virtually catch Pokémon. The device will also have a rumble feature to alert the wearer to a potential catch.

Check out the following trailer that has been dedicated to Satoru Iwata:

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Pokémon Go will release in 2016 for Android & iOS.

 

[porkiewpyne]

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[Flame]

Really excited for this, it will make my work life more entertaining running around the backroom of target catching Pokemon hiding in the freezers or crawling around the high shelves

Two things I am very curious about though.

First, will this replace the possibility of a mainline Pokemon game releasing next year on 3DS? We did not get one this year, I do wonder if this will be our "replacement" for the year, or if it will coincide with the launch of a new Pokemon 3DS game that will have compatibility with Pokemon GO.

My other question is... will there be Shiny encounters..?

Shiny encounters?


i hope not..


in case someone takes they gun out and goes InfernAPE shit on them

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or


To denounce the evils of microtransactions & money!

 

[mgrev]

Watch it have poke ball 10 pack microtransactions and not work outside of Japan and America

Root+freedom/jailbreak+localiapstore FTW

 

[CathyRina]

First, will this replace the possibility of a mainline Pokemon game releasing next year on 3DS? We did not get one this year, I do wonder if this will be our "replacement" for the year, or if it will coincide with the launch of a new Pokemon 3DS game that will have compatibility with Pokemon GO.

They probably want to spend some time on the game this time and make it good this time. XY were really rushed and weren't really that good compared to previous titles. If not for mega revolutions this might've been the wort 2 entries to the Pokemon franchise. We don't need that happening again with the next games. EA skipped a year with NFS and the new one looks promising. I think the same will happen to Pokemon.

 

[Joe88]

Are people really suggesting this should come out for hololens ...?
Completely ignoring the fact's that its gonna probably cost upwards of $1500, not going to be able to use outside of the house, seems its going to be pc only (like oculus rift) and it a product from a competing company
Google cardboard is the only chance of any actually vr because its so cheap and pretty accessible, and even than I doubt they are going to bother actually programming vr in as the game was only created to make money off micro-transactions

 

[chavosaur]

So after watching the press conference and seeing how location based the game is going to be, I continue to find the concept really neat. They mention things like finding certain types of Pokemon where you would typically encounter them in a "Pokemon world setting," such as finding squirtles and other water types near bodies of water, finding grass Pokemon in nature, and finding electric types in shops and things like that. Ill be interested to see how far the concept is taken.

That being said, I question how the game will be played by anyone that can't go too many places. Unlike japan, a very transit heavy country, America has its' fair share of families that don't have an opportunity to explore outside of like, 3 main areas. A school, a typical shopping center, and home, with them maybe being able to play in the yard now and again. With that being the case, does that then make it impossible to, "catch em all?" in a legitimate manner? (I mention this since I am sure everyone is just gonna mention lolhax)

What also makes me curious is how accurate the location based service Pokemon are going to be, and the rate at which I can encounter Pokemon.

Oh and one last tidbit again. If I encounter Pokemon based on typical and logical area of the game... do I have to visit a graveyard to find Ghost Pokemon..?

 

[RustInPeace]

I could give that go, I guess it's based on walking, like Pokewalker. The timing might be problematic for me, because I only go out for a walk for the dog. If it's during the winter, I'm not going to be walking out a lot. Hopefully there would be incentives, like exclusive pokemon and such. Nice idea, but I'm more interested in what the next main series pokemon game will be.

 

[dimmidice]

Google cardboard is the only chance of any actually ar because its so cheap and pretty accessible, and even than I doubt they are going to bother actually programming ar in as the game was only created to make money off micro-transactions

i dont think you know what AR is. AR isn't necessarily a oculus rift kind of thing. even the 3DS has AR capabilities in the form of the ? card that came with it. the fishing, golf, etc games on 3ds are AR.

that said AR is a gimmick and people are getting way their hopes up way too high.

 

[ferofax]

If any of you guys have played Ingress, you'll know what to expect from this game.

I wonder if the Pokemon locations are generated at random for each player, or if they are universal. What happens if two people encounter the same Pokemon at the same time?

Ingress locations are global, if the original game is any indicator to how points of interest will work, but I think every player will have their own instances of pokemon, except for event of course, as shown by the trailer. That Mewtwo fight though... it's almost like a raid boss, where everyone is free to have a go at it and chip it down to zero.

This game could be so damn great if not done for smartphones... Why can't this wait a few years and be released for the HoloLens? That would be much more like the trailer. And with those HoloLens glasses people would look a little like Team Flare grunts.

I might try this game, but I'm sure I will be disappointed by the actual experience offered after seeing misleading trailer. I hate it when people still try to sell decent ideas with lots of pure imagination.

HoloLens is Microsoft, right? Conflict of interest right there. It's likelier to be adopted for Google Glass. A great integration would be whenever you encounter a pokemon, the smartphone app plops an AR marker in front of you, passes that info to Google Glass, which displays the marker in relation to your GPS coordinates, and from there generates the holographic images with the proper distance and perspective. Now that would be a sight to behold.

Root+freedom/jailbreak+localiapstore FTW

The game is always-online, seeing as it's a global game that updates in real-time (otherwise, some players in your immediate area would be invisible to you), I don't think hacking the game would be that easy. I don't even know if anybody successfully hacked Ingress like that - I think 100% of the players are all legit. Plus Ingress have banned players for using third-party tools - so they know (somehow) if you're using these tools to gain unfair advantage over other players.

 

[Joe88]

i dont think you know what AR is. AR isn't necessarily a oculus rift kind of thing. even the 3DS has AR capabilities in the form of the ? card that came with it. the fishing, golf, etc games on 3ds are AR.

that said AR is a gimmick and people are getting way their hopes up way too high.

sorry, meant "vr"
particularly head mounted vr

 

[dimmidice]

sorry, meant "vr"
particularly head mounted vr

ah, that makes a lot more sense then

 

[Hyperstar96]

Looks awesome, hope it's not region locked!

It'll be about as region locked as any other iOS/Android app.

 

[Procyon]

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To extend our reach to the stars above

 

[LightyKD]

People wanted a Pokemon MMO... here you go! I cant wait to play this. Better yet I can't wait to see my wife play this. She's hooked on Pokemon Shuffle for Android so this might be her first traditional Pokemon experience.

 

[Maximilious]

I couldn't get into Ingress. Was invited for the Beta and walked around downtown where I work for a few days, but after a while I realized I'm a grown up and have better places/things to do then hunting nodes.

 

[ElYubiYubi]

Hmm that trailer is a ton of misleading.
I hate it when they never show any idea of actual gameplay.
Likely it'll just be a 2D screen and battles are fought automatically so no strategy required.
In otherwords like Ingress but with a license on top.
Least thats what I fear.
If they had classic style battling it might not be too bad.

From what we can tell though it seems it'll kinda be like geo caching but likely they'll make it simple and you'll just get random wild pokemon finds.
Seems fun but I'm guessing it'll end up as cheap as they can manage it rather than a full fledged game.
Oh well should be fun to see how it works out providing the accessory isn't insanely hard to get.

All I wish is that Battles are like the main series, yknow like with all the strategy involve. But probable will just be what you said. And the real full game will be on the NX. The NX is rumored to run Android or be compatible with Android games/apps and be a portable so...

 

[BurningDesire]

Shiny encounters?


i hope not..


in case someone takes they gun out and goes InfernAPE shit on them





To denounce the evils of truth and love!


or


To denounce the evils of microtransactions & money!

To extend our reach to the stars above!

 

[Flame]

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To extend our reach to the stars above!

Flame.....




who, as in I is a big pokemon fan, will download this day one.

 

[Procyon]

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Bit late 3agle

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All I wish is that Battles are like the main series, yknow like with all the strategy involve. But probable will just be what you said. And the real full game will be on the NX. The NX is rumored to run Android or be compatible with Android games/apps and be a portable so...

Big 'N said the rumor of Android is false

 

[Lucifer666]

that video is ****ing amazing, but yeah those unrealistic trailers are always heartbreaking cos the real thing obviously isn't gonna be anything like that

I don't even know how they're gonna implement it. If you just have to walk around IRL to start a battle on your smartphone then that's gonna be dumb as hell

I think I'm more excited about the video itself than the product its advertising LOL