It's nearing E3 once more, which means rumors at in full force. And with a Pokemon title inevitably on the horizon, Pokemon rumors are flooding news and discussion sites. Once more, we find ourselves questioning what's real or fake.

Back on April Fools, there was a post made on 4chan. Such things from there are always assumed to be a meme or fake post. Based_AF Media also further confirmed the 4chan post, but it should be known that they are a relatively unheard of news site, possibly looking for easy hits.

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This "leak" states that the upcoming game would be a Yellow remake, and would have Pokemon Go integration.

Emily Rogers further fueled the fire by hinting at the name of the games potentially having some link to the mobile title Pokemon GO, and that mainline Pokemon and Pokemon Go could benefit from each other.

Spoiler: Emily Rogers True/False ratio

SoulCalibur V would be out for the Wii U: FALSE
Nintendo would launch a huge quirky shooter for the Wii U: TRUE (Splatoon)
Smash would be on Switch and launch 2018: TRUE
Nintendo and Ubisoft were making a strategy game: TRUE (M & R Kingdom Battle)
Pokemon and Pikmin 4 would launch before March 2018: FALSE
Mother 3 would be ported to the Wii U: FALSE (We did get Earthbound Beginnings though)
Female Link would be playable in BOTW: FALSE
GameCube Virtual Console would be a reveal at E3 2017: FALSE
BOTW would be pushed back for simul Wii U/Switch release: TRUE

Twitter user "Nibel" also Retweeted the image of the supposed logo, giving further credence. Nibel's rumor history includes correctly guessing that there would be a new Insomniac Games Spiderman title, the existence of a PS4 Pro (at the time, codeword Neo), and a Catherine remake for Vita/PS4. Nibel has also claimed that Retro is working on yet another Donkey Kong Country game for the Switch, but this one is still unverified.

Translated, the text in the Logo translates to "Let's Go Pikachu!", once more adding onto the idea of a Pokemon Yellow remake. Even more ridiculously, an image from a few months earlier made its rounds on the internet, showing what appeared to just be a slightly edited image of Sun/Moon. In it...you can see none other than an Eevee perched onto the trainer's head. This corroborates the Let's go Eevee! part of the rumor over at 4chan. Plus the part about Sun/Moons HMs-replaced-by-Pokemon, as well.

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Then we have something a bit more vague. Twitter user PixelPar uploaded a video saying he'd been hinting the whole time at this, through little drawings of Pokemon Yellow he'd been doing up to the official announcement of the game.

https://t.co/hwK8yfYQ9M

— Pixelpar (@pixelpar) May 15, 2018

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EDIT:

The day after this was written, an entity has claimed the domain names for both of the game's names. Not only that, but one of Kotaku's lead writers also followed up on the Pokemon Go portion of the rumor:

Game Freak confirmed to me that they are exploring ways to connect the main games to Pokemon Go. Nothing "concrete" yet though.

— Patricia Hernandez (@xpatriciah) October 19, 2016

https://www.whois.com/whois/pokemonletsgopikachu.com

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The domain owner has previously registered Pokemon game names in the past, as well. Nintendo isn't mentioned anywhere within the documents, though, which deviates from previous domain registrations, where they've always been named as the owner in some form. And now the Official Pokemon JP site is heavily using both Pikachu and Eevee in marketing.

And, as of right now, that's everything involving this specific rumor. What do you think? Real? Fake? Is this the equivalent of Rayman in Smash once more?​

 

[pedro702]

That doesn't really make it not work though. You can have evolved Pokemon like Snorlax show up in their previous forms or in case of Heracross not show up at all and be replaced by your Token Bug type Pokemon until your level total reaches a certain point (same goes for Legendaries). Besides, certain areas can be still shut away from the player by Poke Ride, which you'd only get access to after beating Gyms.
Again this system isn't hard to implement. You just have to brain storm for 5 minutes and that's it.

not hard to implement? imagine every tiny corner of grass that needs coding to make pokemons apear with diferent moveset at diferent lvl at diferent evolutions, now all the trainers also , this would be a tremendous amount of codding considering there are over 800+pokemons, this isnt a normal rpg where you have under 40 or so diferent enemy types you got over 800, codding for every single pokemon encounter zone, every trainer and every gym for every lvl and diferent moveset you have and you got a huge mess that no one would care to do at all.

i very highly doubt gamefreak will ever do this at all.

 

[CathyRina]

not hard to implement? imagine every tiny corner of grass that needs coding to make pokemons apear with diferent moveset at diferent lvl at diferent evolutions, now all the trainers also , this would be a tremendous amount of codding considering there are over 800+pokemons, this isnt a normal rpg where you have under 40 or so diferent enemy types you got over 800, codding for every single pokemon encounter zone, every trainer and every gym for every lvl you have and you got a huge mess that no one would care to do at all.

i very highly doubt gamefreak will ever do this at all.

Yeah there are over 800 Pokemons but the games never used all of them in a single game (think the best we ever got was still 300 iirc). Besides if you had ever even glanced at a RPG creation tool then you'd had known that they don't have to code every single patch of grass to change the level scaling. It'd be a global script that they write once and would apply to the entire world. Besides that, Wild Pokemon always had the 4 most recent moves that they could've learned whenever they made for a good move pool or not didn't ever matter, so the moves thing isn't an issue and trainers always were handcrafted so giving them a level range wouldn't be hard either. They don't even have to update trainer move pools with every single level, 5~10 level increments would be more than enough, After all the Vs. Seeker did just that. Aditionally you could make hard caps for certain areas (for example Route 1 stops scaling at level 10) further reducing your workload.

I'm not saying Gamefreak should be doing a system like that, all I'm saying it's easily possible and they could do it if they wanted to.

 

[anhminh]

Oh shit, this seem like it may be real.

I would quit Pokemon if they somehow make a Pokemon on console look like S&M and play like Pokemon GO with even more Gen I bullshit in it.

 

[pedro702]

Yeah there are over 800 Pokemons but the games never used all of them in a single game (think the best we ever got was still 300 iirc). Besides if you had ever even glanced at a RPG creation tool then you'd had known that they don't have to code every single patch of grass to change the level scaling. It'd be a global script that they write once and would apply to the entire world. Besides that, Wild Pokemon always had the 4 most recent moves that they could've learned whenever they made for a good move pool or not didn't ever matter, so the moves thing isn't an issue and trainers always were handcrafted so giving them a level range wouldn't be hard either. They don't even have to update trainer move pools with every single level, 5~10 level increments would be more than enough, After all the Vs. Seeker did just that. Aditionally you could make hard caps for certain areas (for example Route 1 stops scaling at level 10) further reducing your workload.

I'm not saying Gamefreak should be doing a system like that, all I'm saying it's easily possible and they could do it if they wanted to.

you only had 300 becuase manny pokemons only appeared in one form at a specifiq lvl, if lvls scale up and down and oponents evolve acordingly you would have close to full pokedex.

 

[CathyRina]

you only had 300 becuase manny pokemons only appeared in one form at a specifiq lvl, if lvls scale up and down and oponents evolve acordingly you would have close to full pokedex.

No not at all. the 300 Pokemon specifically included all that are only obtainable through catching, or evolution. The game would need to be insanely big or have the worst encounter rates possible (like all the romhacks that have all Pokemon available to catch). Also I need to correct myself. B2W2 had only 300 Pokemon obtainable without trading from past games. In X and Y there were only 457 obtainable Pokemon. USUM had 401 on the other hand. There was no official Pokemon game so far with all Pokemon obtainable in the wild.

 

[pedro702]

No not at all. the 300 Pokemon specifically included all that are only obtainable through catching, or evolution. The game would need to be insanely big or have the worst encounter rates possible (like all the romhacks that have all Pokemon available to catch). Also I need to correct myself. B2W2 had only 300 Pokemon obtainable without trading from past games. In X and Y there were only 457 obtainable Pokemon. USUM had 401 on the other hand. There was no official Pokemon game so far with all Pokemon obtainable in the wild.

Single Pokemon X file without access to trading, events, or importing anything from elsewhere such as Bank has access to 557 different species.

that is preety big number already without counting trading evolutions.

 

[MK73DS]

I fear I must say good bye to Pokemon... Maybe am I too old now ?

 

[Jayro]

Anyone else sick and tired of seeing Sun/Moon Citra screenshots claiming to be leaks? The game won't look like that. We're getting a game built from the ground, up. Not some shitty 3DS-optimized port.

 

[RedBlueGreen]

To be honest Pokemon switch is going to be a major letdown/disappointment.
The game is getting hyped up so much that it's going to be real hard to satisfy those unrealistic expectations.

I think they'll just match anything revealed if any of this is true and people will eat that shit up because anything that's hyped and isn't a complete failure becomes a "masterpiece" now.

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Whatever happened to the + - rumours that showed up on miiverse a few weeks after x y was released?

They were obviously super fake. Some dumb channel TyranitarTube spread that around a lot actually since he gets a lot of views.

I fear I must say good bye to Pokemon... Maybe am I too old now ?

No they're just fucking up the series so people will praise them for reinventing the series even though most people don't want that. If it ain't broke don't fix it. That's how you alienate a lot of fans.

The "leaks" alone will be enough for GF/Nintendo to buy up the domains just incase someone tries to register them, after all it has Pokémon in the name, so trademark protection etc.

Yeah didn't they have a trademark for Pokémon Gray before Black 2 and White 2 were announced?

Anyone else sick and tired of seeing Sun/Moon Citra screenshots claiming to be leaks? The game won't look like that. We're getting a game built from the ground, up. Not some shitty 3DS-optimized port.

It's amazing how many people will believe things with no actual proof to back them up. Just some mock title images are enough to fool tons of people. If the games were really gonna use those names the websites probably would've been registered a really long time ago.

 

[CathyRina]

Single Pokemon X file without access to trading, events, or importing anything from elsewhere such as Bank has access to 557 different species.

that is preety big number already without counting trading evolutions.

Because of the Friend Safari. Which we haven't seen ever since and the levels on these Pokemon would be irrelevant anyway since it's post-story content.

 

[graeme122]

I'm currently dry heaving at the fact that this could be real.

 

[Deleted User]

I think they'll just match anything revealed if any of this is true and people will eat that shit up because anything that's hyped and isn't a complete failure becomes a "masterpiece" now.

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They were obviously super fake. Some dumb channel TyranitarTube spread that around a lot actually since he gets a lot of views.

No they're just fucking up the series so people will praise them for reinventing the series even though most people don't want that. If it ain't broke don't fix it. That's how you alienate a lot of fans.

Yeah didn't they have a trademark for Pokémon Gray before Black 2 and White 2 were announced?

It's amazing how many people will believe things with no actual proof to back them up. Just some mock title images are enough to fool tons of people. If the games were really gonna use those names the websites probably would've been registered a really long time ago.

Wew text wall

 

[AaronUzumaki]

Where is this logo actually being displayed from? The only thing I can tell for sure is that it isn't a photograph. So, it must be a screenshot taken straight from a device. But, wouldn't that be extremely risky compared to just snapping a sneaky photo and cropping out any pertinent information?

 

[Sumasuun]

I got tired of reading all the negativity part way through so I'm not sure if anyone else said this, but why does every one (or at least from what I could bother to read) seem to think integration with Pokemon GO means transferring pokemon back and forth?

Honestly at most I can picture it along the lines of interaction like with the Pikachu Virtual pet or a Pokewalker.. Minimal interaction between both to earn rewards for both type of thing. At most take advantage of the buddy walking system in GO if you transfer one Pokemon from any potential Switch game to GO, like rewards for walking a certain distance or maybe an amount of experience before you have to transfer it back to reset the limit type of thing. Maybe unlock a move or vanity item for either game, maybe an "exclusive" Pokemon that's just a special color (like the GameStop Pikachu colored Pichu to get the Spikey-Earred Pichu or vice versa, idr) or in the case of GO wearing a little hat.

As far as the "leaks" go though, I'm not sure I have anything to say about it since anything I could say has been said.

 

[alexj9626]

Anyone else sick and tired of seeing Sun/Moon Citra screenshots claiming to be leaks? The game won't look like that. We're getting a game built from the ground, up. Not some shitty 3DS-optimized port.

While i agree with you "at heart" the truth is we dont know that. You dont know that and i dont know that. I hope is not some 3DS looking game and i think that "leak" is from Citra hands down, but tha doesnt mean they cant do that....

I hope im wrong tho.

 

[AaronUzumaki]

Here's something I realized. With the character ポ in the title, the accent has always been represented by a pokeball since Ruby and Sapphire. Now, I suppose it both supports and goes against this new logo that it has a pokeball in the word go instead. On one hand, why would they change the logo format? On the other hand, if they did decide to change the format, it makes sense artistically not to have a pokeball twice. Also, the texture and style of the words "Pocket Mosters" are clearly inspired by Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow. So, if it is fake, which seems likely to me personally, it at least isn't lazy.

 

[Cha0tic]

I for one have not grown tired of kanto, and been playing since red and blue. Fact Gen 1 is the only game I can constantly replay without getting bored/tired of. So if this is true I wouldn't mind at all. But that's just me. Second would be Gen 2.

But I also agree with others on wanting to see a Gen 4 remake one day.

 

[javilobo8]

twitter(dot)com/_Mizumi/status/996849036421423104

 

[CathyRina]

twitter(dot)com/_Mizumi/status/996849036421423104

nice meme

 

[limpbiz411]

i'f it has anything to do with Pokemon go's catching system then forget about it.