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Welcome to the Pokemon Direct. Are you excited to see what Nintendo and Game Freak have in store for the future of Pokemon? Let's find out what's planned for announcement in this new Nintendo Direct.

The first announcement is a remake of the original Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games from the GBA and DS, now in 3D. It's called Rescue Team DX. It'll release on March 6, 2020, and will come with a demo available after the Direct.

An expansion pass has been revealed for Pokemon Sword and Shield. This will allow for new adventures, at a cost, in the latest Pokemon games. Instead of saving this content for an updated re-release, the expansion pass will feature the re-addition of many older Pokemon, new costumes, brand new Pokemon, areas, and Gigantamax forms. This content will be split into two pieces: The Isle of Armor, due June 2020, and The Crown Tundra, due Fall 2020. There will be new places within these content packs, and they'll have unique differences between the Sword and Shield versions of the expansion, which are sold separately.

The Isle of Armor focuses on growth, where you'll allowed to challenge a new Pokemon Dojo. Kubfu is a new Pokemon, with its evolution, Urshifu. It has two different styles; it's either fighting/dark or fighting/water. The final evolutions of the starters will get Gigantamax forms, too.

Meanwhile, The Crown Tundra is about exploration. Calyrex is a new legendary Pokemon. There's new Pokemon Dens and older legendaries you can catch underground. There's also new unrevealed battle challenges to take on. More wild areas will be added.

Over 200 older Pokemon will be added back to the game in these expansion updates. Those who don't wish to buy the expansion pass will still be able to get the newly announced Pokemon via link trades, in a free update that'll be coming.

Pokemon Home is launching next month, but no other news is scheduled for it right now.

Galarian Slowpoke and certain Gigantamax forms will be more common, such as Lapras, in an update later today.

Pokemon Sword and Shield's Expansion Pass will each cost $29.99 per game for the Isle of Armor and The Crown Tundra separately. You can pre-order them now.

If you own both games, you'll need to buy the Expansion Pass for both Sword and Shield seperately. Each game's DLC is $29.99, meaning if you play Sword, and buy its respective Expansion, it'll cost $29.99 to play the Isle of Armor and The Crown Tundra.

 

[chartube12]

*may have

ignored for being a grammar nezi

 

[Chary]

You know this is for kids right, reminds me of Ernest Howard Shepard's art work

What are you trying to imply? That nice-looking coherent spritework like the original isn't for kids? Character models that look like they naturally exist in the world isn't for kids?

Spoiler: graphix

A lot of instances from the trailer look awkward. Like someone put their Pokemon toys on top of some watercolor paintings and called it a day. It's easier to put emotes above unchanging or hopping-up-and-down small handheld sized sprites, than it is to use those same above-head emotes on blank-faced 3D models. It's far more jarring in this modern instance than it was in the original.

 

[Deleted User]

what you said made no sence lol every game even original gold and silver you can only bring old pokemon from older games once you beat the main game... it was never allowed before betaing the main pokemon league, so you were always forced to beat the entire main game with pokemons only found in said reagion and can only play with out of region pokemons post game until then, so it never bothered anyone lol because it was never possible to transfer past gens pokemons before bating the game with the available ones first...

while season pass is nice and all i would apreciate they did a full physical release like pokemons sword/shield deluxe or complete or whatever in the end, i like my complete editions, still waiting for botw one ... maybe when its turned into a nintendo select...

Gold and Silver only required you enter the Ecruteak Pokemon Center.
You did however need 150 Pokémon caught in the Pokedex to transfer Pokémon with a different OT in Stadium 2's PC if you were transferring that way.

 

[Nobody_Important4u]

Honestly im not suprised at all with sword and shield

I only played a little of ds mystery dungeon so i don't really care unless it's super good

 

[chartube12]

What are you trying to imply? That nice-looking coherent spritework like the original isn't for kids? Character models that look like they naturally exist in the world isn't for kids?

Spoiler: graphix

A lot of instances from the trailer look awkward. Like someone put their Pokemon toys on top of some watercolor paintings and called it a day. It's easier to put emotes above unchanging or hopping-up-and-down small handheld sized sprites, than it is to use those same above-head emotes on blank-faced 3D models. It's far more jarring in this modern instance than it was in the original.

i get what your saying. the pokémon lack emotions in the new art style. only their chat avatars give us an idea of what they are feeling and thinking w/o words.

Personally i like the water color painting style. Pokemon is one of the few games were it fits nicely. I will agree though, the animations are effectively non-existence and it’s sad. i see it as a result of keeping firered and leaf green standby animations.

 

[Chary]

i get what your saying. the pokémon lack emotions in the new art style. only their chat avatars give us an idea of what they are feeling and thinking w/o words.

Personally i like the water color painting style. Pokemon is one of the few games were it fits nicely. I will agree though, the animations are effectively non-existence and it’s sad. i see it as a result of keeping firered and leaf green combat animations.

I want to like the watercolor style, I'm always down for that Tales of/Valkyria kinda artstyle. But unlike the latter two examples, Pokemon MD seems to have gone with the concept of the art, and then slapped the models in later, hoping they'd mesh well. Having completed the demo, it's kinda even more amusing, seeing that some Pokemon (Charmander, Pikachu) have decent animations, while others, (Totodile and his constant arms-out mini t-pose and Bulbasaur being limited to the mildest of head-tilts for expression) don't fare as well. It's one of those cases where I think where working within the limitations ended up making the original game a little more timeless. Doesn't mean I won't buy it day 1 and won't enjoy it like I did when I was 9, but I probably will find myself quirking an eyebrow at the weird animations.

 

[the_randomizer]

Nothing I don't even kno wher ther even based and if yr gonna game pay up like any other business and gaming is a cheap hobby for the amount of time we put into it

Still a dick move for them to cut Pokemon only for them to "conveniently" add them later DLC. Can't spell Gamefreak without EA.

 

[Chary]

Still a dick move for them to cut Pokemon only for them to "conveniently" add them later DLC. Can't spell Gamefreak without EA.

I don't think they intended to ever re-add the Pokemon. Game Freak just saw the sales numbers and the desire for older Pokemon and decided to put two and two together. At the very least, Pokemon Home users or regular non DLC owners can get those Pokemon via trades/importing.

 

[the_randomizer]

I don't think they intended to ever re-add the Pokemon. Game Freak just saw the sales numbers and the desire for older Pokemon and decided to put two and two together. At the very least, Pokemon Home users or regular non DLC owners can get those Pokemon via trades/importing.

I just... don't know what to think.

 

[Lodad]

I could have sworn there was a news thread on GBATemp before Sw/Sh release that announced Dexit where 3 or 4 of us called it that they'd release older pokemon and expanded regions as paid DLC. Where'd that go?

 

[nero99]

I bet all of you that are complaining about the dlc price are the kind of people that go out and pay nearly $200 for the deluxe edition of most Xbox and play station games. Quit complaining already. You wanted more Pokémon, you got it. Now be happy you little brats.

 

[the_randomizer]

Man, I'm glad I didn't watch this.

 

[donaldgx]

DLC for the old pokes.
This could set a really bad precedent
Hopefully consumers are smart and don't fall for this sht, but who am i kidding? sht will probably end up as the most sold DLC for the switch

 

[skawo]

I bet all of you that are complaining about the dlc price are the kind of people that go out and pay nearly $200 for the deluxe edition of most Xbox and play station games. Quit complaining already. You wanted more Pokémon, you got it. Now be happy you little brats.

Haha, no.

 

[RaptorDMG]

DLC for the old pokes.
This could set a really bad precedent
Hopefully consumers are smart and don't fall for this sht, but who am i kidding? sht will probably end up as the most sold DLC for the switch

The pokemon will be added in free updates, you will still be able to trade and import them with Pokebank 2.0 so it's just like any other pokemon you can only get by transfering from an older gen

 

[DJPlace]

even DLC cost hit's for older pokemon now... i miss the old days.... also where my Arceus at?

 

[ChaosEternal]

even DLC cost hit's for older pokemon now... i miss the old days.... also where my Arceus at?

Back in the old days when I first played Pokemon during Gen 3 you had to do just that. The only way to get the Johto starters was through Emerald. Not to mention all the Kanto and Johto Pokemon that you could only get through FireRed and LeafGreen, or Coliseum and XD. Of course, DLC wasn't an option back then so they really couldn't do much about it beyond extending development time or releasin g them in additional products. Here they could, but chose not to for whatever reason.

 

[Joom]

So, I don't get it. People are bitching about DLC, but would probably shell out another $60 for an "ultra" or "complete" version.

 

[Teletron1]

i get what your saying. the pokémon lack emotions in the new art style. only their chat avatars give us an idea of what they are feeling and thinking w/o words.

Personally i like the water color painting style. Pokemon is one of the few games were it fits nicely. I will agree though, the animations are effectively non-existence and it’s sad. i see it as a result of keeping firered and leaf green standby animations.

Which is why I mentioned the art style of Shepherd as a reference but Oh well .. .. maybe people aren't familiar

 

[noobita029]

Nintendo and Gamefreak has fallen to the dark side!! There you go folks, this is how we will be moving forward..