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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.

 

[warweeny]

And people were harassing me for saying the direct would give paid updates.
Oh look at them now.

 

[Wuigi]

The PMD remake looks like an asset flip, much less expressive and ofc far less work to just release a game with the ported 3DS engine and some filter ontop of it.
Some guy said to me that the update with the cut pokemon and the ability to trade them to it from 3DS game with pokemon home was just like it was with pokemon bank, but there were far less lies involved with that feature and people knew what they got.

 

[Clydefrosch]

So when they previously claimed they had no intention of adding missing pokemon, what exactly where they smoking?

 

[DANTENDO]

OK the Pokemon direct is over can someone tell me the time of the proper nintendo direct

 

[Deleted User]

Seriously though, one of the new evolutions actually looks like Klonoa.

 

[chartube12]

Lol Gamefreak was too lazy to add all the Pokemon, but is okay with DLC, gotcha

Somewhat worse. They admitted right in the beginning of the direct they had been working on the DLCs for quit sometime. I think they were being created for the base game, but their time and money was being spent else where and told to release the game without them. Than to make up for the lost of money from Town, rather then release them as a free update, they were told to sell them as two different versions. Management at gamefreak 100% needs to be fired. New management needs to come in and enlarge the staff. Remaining at indie size is a result of greed from the current management.

 

[ombus]

why..is Gf not embarrassed to do this ? nobody got zelda at that company ? a game that looks worse than pokemon lets go...and now pay for old pokemons ? m god...

 

[SANIC]

So when they previously claimed they had no intention of adding missing pokemon, what exactly where they smoking?

They're selling them now

 

[raxadian]

So, remember when people didn't believe.me that the old Pokemon would be added as DLC?

 

[deinonychus71]

The dlc looks fun, but having to buy dlc to be able to catch old Pokemon seems kind of stingy from Nintendo's side. I mean yeah they have to make money from this dlc but considering the Switch is one of Nintendo's biggest selling consoles, they could have given us this dlc at a better price

As opposed to having to buy .5 gen full games?
It doesnt change anything. You can still trade for free.
No pokemon game ever (legit) let you catch all the pokemon. This is no different. You can still trade for free which is what matters.

And dlc is much better than new game. That way they dont have to waste time on early game BS and hopefully focus more on endgame and inovate.

They will not release the game of our dreams in one iteration. We need to stop dreaming. GaaS / MMO like updates is what they will have to do if they want to bring everything that everyone want.

 

[Dr.Hacknik]

That Mystery Dungeon remake looks ugly as sin. Don't get me wrong, I'll still play it, but hot dang, it looks horrifying.

That's what they said about Sword and Shield... Now look where we are. Buying these games and playing them despite them looking like hot garbage. What have we become.

 

[chartube12]

i’m very surprised they didn’t fix a single glitch nor an exploit in the games. Are they trying to be the new 2k Games?

 

[Delerious]

Welp, fuck it! I'm done with the Pokemon franchise. I could deal with them excluding pokemon, but for how little content we got with SWSH and the fact that they're using missing pokemon to make money via a DLC is outright fucking batshit! The franchise makes billions of fucking dollars, so there's no excuse for them to have not had the budget to include this on the base game, which only used 10 of the 16 gigs on the cartridge! What's next? Microtransactions?

 

[Sakitoshi]

As opposed to having to buy .5 gen full games?

there is a $60 difference.
with the "old system" you could completely skip the base game and wait for the upgraded one.
now you are forced to pay $60 for the base game and $60 extra for the .5.

 

[limpbiz411]

i feel as tho this was a complete slap in the face, i don't like the way their business practice is heading. Now purchasing pokemon games are no longer full games.

 

[DANTENDO]

Seems a lot of pokemon fans mad about the extra cost - get a job and you can find more pokemon

 

[deinonychus71]

there is a $60 difference.
with the "old system" you could completely skip the base game and wait for the upgraded one.
now you are forced to pay $60 for the base game and $60 extra for the .5.

The extensions are $30 for both.
$60 is if you get them for both shield and sword.

Thats still $30 but the extensions should (most likely) focus entirely on end game content, which is what Sh/Sw truly lack.

Also. Trade is free. Even if you don't have the dlc.

 

[GenNaz]

According to their website infographics the 200+ returning Pokemon will be made available in the Dex again for free. Of course, they're only gonna be catchable in SwSh be going to these new DLC areas but that does at least open up the option to import them from Pokemon Home.

 

[GbaNober]

remember last year the interview from masuda he said they will not add any Pokemon to gen 5 in the future,
but seeing the success and money the game makes they want to squeeze more from the players by adding expansions and dlcs.

 

[GenNaz]

Seems a lot of pokemon fans mad about the extra cost - get a job and you can find more pokemon

While I think the extra cost is warranted in this particular instance, this mindset is of yours is generally pretty toxic and unproductive.