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?​

 

[alexj9626]

So i just saw on reddit some pictures from the new movie with Zeraora, Pikachu and Eevee.

I just realized, Eevee could be the companion from the girl in the next movie.

That would make us look really dumb. I hope its from the movie tho.

 

[QCLasky]

Idk if it was already posted here...

 

[specht]

Assuming this is a multi-version remake of Yellow and the Go integration is purely pokewalker or just allowing you to transfer Pokemon from Go I'm all for it. If I had the know how and drive to make Pokemon romhack it'd be reverse G/S/C.

Though the names suggest one will force you to start with Pikachu while the other will give you an Eevee. The forced starter in Yellow still kinda worked since you get the others fairly early on. But why buy the Pikachu version if you can still catch one in Viridian Forest and have way more options when you can evolve the Eevee? I suppose they could remove Pikachu from the forest but it still doesn't really add up.

 

[RedBlueGreen]

Assuming this is a multi-version remake of Yellow and the Go integration is purely pokewalker or just allowing you to transfer Pokemon from Go I'm all for it. If I had the know how and drive to make Pokemon romhack it'd be reverse G/S/C.

Though the names suggest one will force you to start with Pikachu while the other will give you an Eevee. The forced starter in Yellow still kinda worked since you get the others fairly early on. But why buy the Pikachu version if you can still catch one in Viridian Forest and have way more options when you can evolve the Eevee? I suppose they could remove Pikachu from the forest but it still doesn't really add up.

You can't catch Pikachu in Yellow so I doubt you can if this remake rumor is true. You'll probably have to trade if it isn't given to you as a gift. Maybe they'd replace the Eevee you can get in Celadon with a Pikachu.

 

[specht]

You can't catch Pikachu in Yellow so I doubt you can if this remake rumor is true. You'll probably have to trade if it isn't given to you as a gift. Maybe they'd replace the Eevee you can get in Celadon with a Pikachu.

I thought about it some more and yeah I agree they'd likely remove Pikachu from the wild and the opposite Pokemon could be available later in the game. They could even bring back the idea that your starter doesn't want to evolve and the egg system would make that easier to get around. The highly questionable leaked screenshot of the Lapras in Route 21 even suggests this since they still have an Eevee on their head at that point in the game.

I'm not a fan of removing the choice of a starter ingame and making it which game you choose. But in the grand scheme of things I guess Pokebank makes that less relevant if you can transfer any Pokemon in early on anyway.

 

[osaka35]

Pokemon Go has staying power. It's in the best interest of the Pokemon Company to try and incorporate it more. I can definitely see why they'd want to.

...but I'd rather they keep it out of the main games.

 

[Xzi]

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

I like this update because "exploring ways to connect to" sounds more like the loose connection of PokeBank rather than heavy integration with the Switch games in particular. Other than perhaps an influence on motion/touch capture bonuses (after combat weakening).

 

[Jayro]

I just want a Pokemon Snap sequel or remake that takes advantage of the N3DS hardware.

 

[Kigiru]

Oh wow 4chan leaks and random babbling or random people.

Sure, titles are real but for what we know right now it would be a clock application for Android or some other shit. Don't get high hopes, it's no Yellow remake.

Wait, it could be real. I found some credible leaks that says that Pokemon Yellow Remake is basicaly 100% confirmed and we will get first trailers in the next week. Here's the screenshot:

Spoiler

 

[Deleted User]

Switch fanboys are praying this is a yellow remake.Lmao.I hope they announce the 4ds along with it at e3 and this turns out to be a spinoff for the switch.

 

[chrisrlink]

for once eevee version will be my pick if true even if we're limited to the kanto eeveelutions i just hope they don't screw up give eevee/Pikachu iron tail early on or brock would be a suicide mission

 

[Sodapopcan]

The real question is if we get brown and yellow joycon combo either packaged together or with a “special edition” for each game.

 

[froggestspirit]

Did anyone consider this could be a side game, and not a main series game? It's not like we never had a spinoff before.

 

[CathyRina]

Would be very trollish to release a side game after confirming that a main-line Pokemon game is in development for the Switch.

 

[DeletedMember411838]

Switch fanboys are praying this is a yellow remake.Lmao.I hope they announce the 4ds along with it at e3 and this turns out to be a spinoff for the switch.

4ds BWHAHA, that is a good one. 3DS is dead bro, they got Indies and some janky after thoughts to release before it dies, that's it.

There 1000% will not be a 4ds.

Switch Mini, that is smaller, unremovable joycons and cheaper, that I could see, will defiantly will at some point.

 

[duelistjp]

Thankfully this sounds like a load of BS to me. They're not going to take out a huge portion of the game (finding and capturing Pokemon) just to integrate Niantic's nearly-featureless game. Or if they do, it'll be an optional way of catching Pokemon to transfer over. Even that I kinda doubt given how much it would fuck with progression, you can quickly catch a lot of otherwise rare Pokemon in Go.

probably unlocked postgame when you get the nationaldex maybe as part of a postgame storyline like rainbow rocket was

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for once eevee version will be my pick if true even if we're limited to the kanto eeveelutions i just hope they don't screw up give eevee/Pikachu iron tail early on or brock would be a suicide mission

we got through it in '98 we'll get through it again

 

[Jayro]

Would be very trollish to release a side game after confirming that a main-line Pokemon game is in development for the Switch.

They could always drop that Gen 4 remake on us to distract us from waiting for the main game. That'd be nice at least. If anything, UltraSun and UltraMoon were trollish, and were the definitive versions of Sun and Moon, as they should have been from the start. Just wish the engines were N3DS optimized.

 

[Deleted User]

4ds BWHAHA, that is a good one. 3DS is dead bro, they got Indies and some janky after thoughts to release before it dies, that's it.

There 1000% will not be a 4ds.

Switch Mini, that is smaller, unremovable joycons and cheaper, that I could see, will defiantly will at some point.

I would perfer a switch mini then that bulky ass tablet with two nunchucks that clip to the side,that much ill agree with.

 

[specht]

Oh wow 4chan leaks and random babbling or random people.

Sure, titles are real but for what we know right now it would be a clock application for Android or some other shit. Don't get high hopes, it's no Yellow remake.

Wait, it could be real. I found some credible leaks that says that Pokemon Yellow Remake is basicaly 100% confirmed and we will get first trailers in the next week. Here's the screenshot:

Spoiler

You can still speculate on something while acknowledging it's probably not true or it could be something entirely different. If people get their hopes up and become disappointed over a rumor that turns out to be nothing it's their problem.

I mean, the definition of speculate is to form a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence.

 

[Stellar]