​

Are you ready, Pokemon fans? It's almost time to see what Nintendo has in store for the next generation of Pokemon. Once the video goes live, we'll be covering the announcements made during the seven minute long Direct. Stay tuned to see what gets revealed.

Footage is shown for the next Pokemon game, running on the Nintendo Switch. New locations, areas, and trainers are shown. The starters have been revealed as well. Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield are the latest titles.

​

Both games will take place in the Galar region which will have old and new Pokemon. Grookey, Scorbunny, and Sobble are the starters' names. Wild Pokemon battles are back. Worldwide release planned for Late 2019.

UK Direct Link

 

[Bernhard]

Maybe we can fight wild creatures again... hopefully

 

[Steena]

happy about the higher details in places compared to let's-go, i expected less work.
the starters look dreadful, they are all made of the same 3 flat shapes, it feels like a running joke now. Their species inspiration also falls flat, it's the most overused creatures when there are still a ton that have never been touched, hopefully other entries fill those holes.
the map visually looks more onrails than any other illustration of a world map in the franchise, which leads me to believe they are doubling down on the gen 6-7 gameplay downgrades with a heavy stripping down philosophy.

 

[aos10]

of course i am gonna pike the looney tunes rabbit

and,,,new avatar for me

Failed to fetch tweet https://twitter.com/lolisukizui/status/1100770919469830145

 

[AkikoKumagara]

Graphical improvements make me happy, and the gyms look great too. Not too keen on the starters but the fire bunny's got my eye for now.

 

[KingVamp]

They did say there was another Pokemon announcement. Do you think they already started on the next Let's Go game?

 

[mustafag32g]

WTF? This is just pokemon lets go and the graphics are awful! You can see weird outlines etc. plus i seriously thought that we would get a real open-world with a bit more realistic graphics :/

 

[VMM]

Grass monkey, fire rabbit, watery-blue-thing.
As Meatloaf said, "Two out of three ain't bad."

Honestly found those fakemon better designed than the 8th gen starters.

The rabbit one was quite predictable considering that fire starters always follow the chinese zodiac.

 

[Longshot56]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_Alps

Never traveled outside of the US, i didn't know

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

Honestly found those fakemon better designed than the 8th gen starters.

The rabbit one was quite predictable considering that fire starters always follow the chinese zodiac.

It's year of the pig.

 

[WiiHomebrew+Snes]

They all look like oshawott especially grass type

 

[Mama Dizzys]

When are we getting a Pokémon where the region is formed by google maps?

 

[SG854]

Pokémon Sword and Sheild

Even the name Pokemon Sword and Shield is a bit rubbish and has a lack of imagination to it. In a few years they will follow it up with Pokemon
and Fork and a special edition will be brought out a few months later called Pokemon Spoon lol.

They already have a lamp as a Pokémon. It’s not far off.

 

[Baoulettes]

Look decent for me, I mean cartoonish graphic for pokemon fit perfectly, wild battle and trainers that cool.
Just it is me or all city and map s in general looked so empty ? I mean no npc ?
Else I like these new name, Shield and Sword, Pokemon SS.
I lost a bet but still decent name
Water starter for me, as always since pokemon red

 

[duwen]

It really saddens me that Nintendo claim they won't revisit the F-Zero franchise because there's nothing new they can do with it (their claim, not mine), yet they're more than happy to scrape the barrel with the Pokémon franchise just because they can slap that brand on anything and know it will print money for them.

 

[Arras]

It looks like every other mainline Pokemon game, which is basically what I expected. I'll probably play it but eh. Wish they would have kept the encounters being visible on the overworld from Let's Go at least.

 

[leon315]

looks like Ninty has ran out of colours....

 

[Hayato213]

looks like Ninty has ran out of colours....

They ran out of colours since X and Y.

 

[chartube12]

Probably going to have new forms. Sword (offensive form) and shield (defensive form). Plus evolutions based on which stat is higher. 3rd evolution for a tied/even stats. Just like the hitmo, Pokémon. I would like to see starters for once with this. 3 different Evolutionary paths for each. They could do it for all the new ones except the legendary/mystic Pokémon. Give them different and multiple mega forms instead.

 

[VMM]

It's year of the pig.

It isn't necessarily the year we're in.
We already had a pig fire starter:

 

[DuoForce]

Pokemon Let's Go, but it's a spin-off, which seems to be a hard pill for swallow for many people for some reason.

Let's go is not a spin off

 

[deSSy2724]

Some fakemons are way better designed and I gotta feeling that the games are going to be simplified after all what happend in recent time (GO mobile, Pokemon Quest, Lets GO).... now they talk about newcomers and all that crap, about how the game would be for everyone etc.

BTW anyway how do we gonna call them this time around, Pokemon SW/SH or SRD/SLD or what (problem: first letter S and last letter D for both games..... just great).