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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.

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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

 

[Axido]

Just for the Great old Britain they should consider renaming the versions.
Pokémon Leave and Pokémon Remain

 

[nWo]

Holy Damn! My last played Pokémon game was Pokémon Diamond, in 2007! Maybe it's time to jump back in?

Looks good until now .

 

[ganons]

In a few years they will follow it up with Pokemon Knive and Fork and a special edition will be brought out a few months later called Pokemon Spoon lol.

Made me chuckle but yea, lame names.

 

[chartube12]

The art work for the map has been revealed on Facebook. It looks like the ? Unown. Not even joking. Such a disappointment. Why such a straight forward map? 5 steps forward, 8 steps back!

 

[oxitran]

That music, those pokemon designs, those graphics, WTF is this crap? And here I thought Black and White were bad. This looks like a bad sonic game for the psvita that happened to feature pokemon, eww. And what is that region? England, Holland, Ireland, and Maine in one? Bleh. I would prefer cartman to paint my switch in hangover black.

 

[Deleted member 420418]

Finally, a new region!

 

[Derrin]

Wow that was way more information than I would have expected. But the map looks very straight. You start at the bottom and finish at the top

It's almost like they wanted it to be a metaphor and made it literal. Start at the bottom and become the (very) best.

I hope at least there's a crow pokémon that's not Murkrow/Honchkrow. And a lake with a monster. And a really old queen that's the Champion of the Elite 4. OMG I'm hyping myself.

 

[raxadian]

Oh just the title alone already has given me parody songs ideas...

 

[Glitchk0ud1001]

Aparently they remove pokemon following you why?

 

[Noctosphere]

Aparently they remove pokemon following you why?

woah woah woah
nothing confirmed so far...
It might change by the release lol...

 

[AkikoKumagara]

Why do they always release 2 of the same game when it comes to Pokémon?
There’s always that group of fanboys that buys both, so it makes sence that Nintendo try to abuse them out of some more money but idk. To me it seems like something that EA would do.
I mean I’m not asking them to save the fuckin children, it just seems scummy to me to suck double the money out for the same game.

To encourage interaction between players by making different obtainable Pokémon in each. It is not to get people to buy the same game twice, lol.
Trading has always been a major feature between Pokémon games, and it would be less necessary if you could just go get everything yourself in a single game.

 

[RivenMain]

2:36 needs more cowbell

 

[jomaper]

So we won't have the companion following us. Expected. They don't really like to take time to make the games. Of course they wouldn't model 800+ pokemon.
Lame they went back w some changes like random encounter. Boring.

 

[gameboy]

im hyped

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

1 SOBBLE
2 GROOKEY
3 TRIX RABBIT

 

[nolimits59]

So, they went for the Mario Odyssey Graphic Engine, not a bad choice, not the best to be fair i would say.

But we can clearly "feel" the "out of place" of certain objects that made Odyssey stand out, this is definitly the same graphic engine and ressources.

 

[WiiUBricker]

I do wonder if Pokemon Bank will get ported for Switch now that the main entries jumped console.

 

[Xzi]

This looks fucking amazing. Getting some serious OoT/Majora's Mask vibes from some of those buildings, definitely digging the overall aesthetic.

 

[mancasoko]

From what we see in trailer pokemon will not follow you in this game. But anyway I can't wait to play this game. November seems really far away.

 

[Chrisssj2]

If it still piss easy like all the other pokemon games. No go for me unless some proper difficulty mods come.

Why do they insist on making the game super easy. Why would you ever want to use many pokemon that way or level them or think about what teams you use when it is so piss easy.
Yeah yeah I know in a way its a kid game. Atleast give us an OPTION to make the game hard or whtever.

 

[Paolosworld]

To encourage interaction between players by making different obtainable Pokémon in each. It is not to get people to buy the same game twice, lol.
Trading has always been a major feature between Pokémon games, and it would be less necessary if you could just go get everything yourself in a single game.

Exactly my point, they release the same game twice, but change some of the Pokémon. It’s not like trading wouldn’t exist if there was only one game. There’s enough rarity that trading can be accomplished regardless.
By changing the Pokémon for the sole reason of rereleasing essentially same game