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Not every Pokémon will be available in Pokémon Sword and Shield

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Following up on the Pokémon Direct on June 5th, Nintendo has revealed more information on Pokémon Sword and Shield at the Nintendo Treehouse Live at E3 event.[prebreak][/prebreak] The showcase revealed a few things, such as the new Pokémon Yamper and Impidimp, as well as other general gameplay.

However, during discussions with Junichi Masuda, he revealed that not every Pokémon is going to be available in Pokémon Sword and Shield. "What that means for Pokémon Sword and Shield is that players will be able to transfer their Pokémon from Pokémon Home, only if they appear in the Galar Pokédex." This means that certain Pokémon will be completely omitted from the game, for the first time in the series' history. Naturally, people are upset about this, leading to a whopping 40,000 dislikes on Nintendo's official upload, compared to the video's 15,000 likes. Part of the frustration comes from the idea that all Pokémon can be transferred to the new Pokémon Home service, and have no way of leaving, leaving them in what is essentially a Pokémon Prison.

In an interview with USgamer, Masuda explained that the reason for omitting Pokémon was down to the "higher fidelity" of the game, as well as the "higher quality animations". He also said that they're looking to keep the battle system balanced, and to allow the new Pokémon to shine.
Junichi Masuda, Producer: There are a couple of different parts to the thinking behind it, but really the biggest reason for it is just the sheer number of Pokemon. We already have well over 800 Pokemon species, and there's going to be more added in these games. And now that they're on the Nintendo Switch, we're creating it with much higher fidelity with higher quality animations. But even more than that, it's coming down to the battle system. We're making sure we can keep everything balanced and give all the Pokemon that appear in the games a chance to shine.

We knew at some point we weren't going to be able to indefinitely keep supporting all of the Pokemon, and we just found that Sword and Shield would probably be a good point to go back and reevaluate what would be the best selection of Pokemon that appeal to the widest audience while keeping into consideration the balance of the battle system. It isn't just going to be all-new Pokemon in the Galar region Pokedex; there's still going to be a lot of favorites that fans will be able to bring over that they've adventured with previously. But yeah, it was pretty much just balancing and getting this optimal selection of Pokemon for the adventure we wanted to provide.
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Previously, all Pokémon were available through trades and cross-generation transfers of Pokémon. This meant that each game had a unique set of Pokémon that appear, but the others can be obtained in some form. It's currently unknown how many Pokémon have been cut from Sword and Shield.

You can find a list of Pokémon confirmed for Sword and Shield here.

:arrow: YouTube Video
:arrow: USgamer Interview
 
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Is this their answer to "how do we keep making pokemon after 1000?". Because that's a bad answer. You fraction the userbase and make a lot of people dissapointed.
 
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osaka35 said:
Is this their answer to "how do we keep making pokemon after 1000?". Because that's a bad answer. You fraction the userbase and make a lot of people dissapointed.
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While this was inevitable, E3 was a horrible choice of time to announce it.

Eventually there's going to be 1000s of Pokemon and it'll no longer be feasible to include them all in the development cycle of one game.
 
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bjaxx87 said:
Reminds me of the first and Japan-only Pocket Monsters Stadium game which didn't support all 151 Pokémon. I wouldn't be surprised about "Ultra Shield" and "Ultra Sword" supporting all of them like Pocket Monsters Stadium 2 (Pokémon Stadium in the west) back in the day.

I agree that they very well could afford animations for all the Pokémon considering the cash the series is generating on a regular basis. Just outsource the work if necessary. They could recycle them in future installments of the series so it's not like the effort is just for one title.
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It was a spin off game.

These are main series games.

A lot of people will keep playing Sun and Moon and Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon because Sword and Shield won't have their favourite Pokemon.

If Gamefreak had said Sword and Shield will be able to get Pokemon Transfered from the Let's Go Games fans wouldn't have outraged so badly since at least Sword and Shield would get the classic Pokemon.
 
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If they had cut out that dynamax shit... sorry for my language, they would be able to transfer all pokemon to the new game...

I think that decision was stupid.. . but i try to be open about it and i am happy beeing able to fight wildlife again
 
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WiikeyHacker said:
I personally dont see the problem it gives you a fresh start so stop your bitching and just play the damn game or dont buy it and not ruin it for those that will enjoy the experience.
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You're right I won't be buying this shit.
 
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Game freak could afford to sublet the job to effing DISNEY to crank out, rig, model and animate all 900+ critters, complete with (anime) vocals for the kind of ridiculous money they make off the franchise.

This is just peak turbo lazy at this point. Bad enough that they decided to "remedy" the performance hit of X/Y by basically disabling 3D support on the 3DS altogether. that was already an effing cop-out on their part.

Not surprising, but fucking insulting. Of course this would be Tajiri pulling this ego dick move.
 
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Ugh this is just sad. Defos a not buying from me, between not being able to actually catch em all and no Megas. These games are gonna be piss.

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Good, I hope more and more people do this. It will teach GameFreak a lesson about not bringing out such a shit product.
 
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Hehe, this takes me back to the days of Ruby & Sapphire when they left some out of those... that didn't go down too well either! I would suspect a 'fix' in some shape or other will appear soon... Maybe a new variant of Stadium/Battle Revolution gets released next year including all omitted Pokemon or something? It's not quite as dev heavy as a new game - simply transfer all animation from Sword & Shield, leaving them to work on the others..
I can understand the arguments from both sides of this particular fence though!
 
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mightymuffy said:
Hehe, this takes me back to the days of Ruby & Sapphire when they left some out of those... that didn't go down too well either! I would suspect a 'fix' in some shape or other will appear soon... Maybe a new variant of Stadium/Battle Revolution gets released next year including all omitted Pokemon or something? It's not quite as dev heavy as a new game - simply transfer all animation from Sword & Shield, leaving them to work on the others..
I can understand the arguments from both sides of this particular fence though!
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they actualy made another company genious sonority or whatever make pokemon colosseum and XD which had most of the missing ones, and then on fire red and leaf gren you had that stupid card thing where you could slide it an find some johto pokemons too.
 
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pedro702 said:
saying they have no plans is no plans lol which by all means they dont have any plans to start working on the missing stuff so they likely wont.
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I wasn't saying you were wrong, but it's important to note that if they had decided additional Pokémon won't come via future updates, they would have said so. Instead, they specifically said they haven't made a decision one way or another. There's no need to get catty.
 
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Lacius said:
I wasn't saying you were wrong, but it's important to note that if they had decided additional Pokémon won't come via future updates, they would have said so. Instead, they specifically said they haven't made a decision one way or another. There's no need to get catty.
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No plans is a PR response to basicaly say no, if you ask any developer like will X agme have a switch release? they will always reply we hae no plans on releasing the x game on the switch.

No plans is a negation, its not being either way, its a NO that PR teams use really.
 

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