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shikamaru317 said:
PwerlvlAmy said:
Yoshi - August
Smash - September
Fire Emblem - October
Pokemon - November

Seems quite plausible to me, possibly December for Pokemon.

Taking into account the earlier months, their schedule for the rest of the year would have 1 exclusive a month except for December:

June- Mario Tennis Aces

July- Octopath Traveler/ Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker port

August- Yoshi

September- Smash

October- Fire Emblem

November or December- Pokemon

Also we could easily have some other Wii U port or some 3rd party exclusive (for instance that rumored Ridge Racer 8) in that time period.



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I think the inclusion of Eevee as the co-version with Pikachu makes sense.

If you have looked back in recent months, the Pokemon Company and Game Freak have promoted Eevee as a co-mascot to Pikachu. Eevee even got its own giant costume to go along with the giant Pikachu outfit you've seen in promotional material.

https://pokemonblog.com/2018/01/18/first-footage-of-giant-eevee-costume-unveiled-by-the-pokemon-company/

Plus, as someone said, Eevee was the main Pokemon for Blue/Gary in Pokemon Yellow.



Rumor could be true. Pokemon Go was created to pull in more audience so it's logical that similar functions could be included.

I'm a Pokemon virgin though. This might the first Pokemon game i buy .



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Pagan said:
Lonely_Dolphin said:

Possible logo maybe?

EDIT: This tweet would certainly make a lot more sense now.

L on the hat for "Let's," Pokeball for "Go," and Pikachu n Eevee are self explanatory.

EDIT2: Holy shit the Pokeball is even tilted the same as in the logo! Yeah, I'm on team real now. :L

Oh really? Now its true yes? A couple hours ago it was shit from reset era. What happened now?

What do you mean what happened? There's a lot of stuff pointing to this being real now, including the very post you quoted. Masuda teased Sun & Moon with a similarly cryptic tweet before the game's official reveal, no doubt he's doing the same thing again. It's not 100% true yet, but it's pretty much all but confirmed at this point. Dunno anything about reset era, you'll have to take it up with them.

 

Mar1217 said:
Although, I'm being concerned about the catching mechanic, I'm just glad we're getting a Gen 1 reboot/remake ^^

Although, why did people expect the graphic to be extravagant when it's clear this game didn't have the production time to get a new engine running ?

Probably because we also expected 2019 to be the release date, atleast I did.



A pokemon yellow remake where i don't have to use Pikachu as a starter? Count me in!



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Yeah, plenty of signs that this is real. I'm really interested in the idea of a reboot rather than a remake and I'm interested in how they're going to change things up. Not that hot on Go functionality; I'd assume that's optional. My guess is the only mechanic they really integrate is the streamlined catching for wild Pokemon, with tougher Pokemon (i.e. legendaries etc) requiring that you fight them and weaken them to catch them. My one concern would be that Game Freak haven't pushed the Switch very far technically; that kind of conservatism is typical of them.

I'd like to see this become a game as service, especially if it meant a new region was added each year (or available to buy).

EDIT: Capitalising on Pokemon Go also makes a great deal of sense. Given 750 million people downloaded Go, you only need to reach a tiny percentage of that userbase to add new customers to Pokemon's main games and to the Switch userbase. A conversion rate of ~0.5 to 1% would mean anywhere from 3 to 8 million new Switch users.

Last edited by Asriel - on 16 May 2018

Asriel said:

Yeah, plenty of signs that this is real. I'm really interested in the idea of a reboot rather than a remake and I'm interested in how they're going to change things up. Not that hot on Go functionality; I'd assume that's optional. My guess is the only mechanic they really integrate is the streamlined catching for wild Pokemon, with tougher Pokemon (i.e. legendaries etc) requiring that you fight them and weaken them to catch them. My one concern would be that Game Freak haven't pushed the Switch very far technically; that kind of conservatism is typical of them.

I'd like to see this become a game as service, especially if it meant a new region was added each year (or available to buy).

EDIT: Capitalising on Pokemon Go also makes a great deal of sense. Given 750 million people downloaded Go, you only need to reach a tiny percentage of that userbase to add new customers to Pokemon's main games and to the Switch userbase. A conversion rate of ~0.5 to 1% would mean anywhere from 3 to 8 million new Switch users.

It only makes sense if you assume that audience is even remotely interested in paying $360 to play a beefed up version of a modest pass time.  That most of them stopped playing over a year ago.  If they fully gut these games to water them down for the Go audience, they will be setting decades of history on fire for not much in guaranteed return.  A pointless gamble since a core Pokemon RPG would be guaranteed for 15mil sold.

Also, follow up quote from Rogers:

What I said: I believe a Pokemon game is releasing on Switch later this year. It will be a RPG with at least two versions.

What I didn’t say: I didn’t specify whether it was a core game, a spinoff series, a remake of an older game, or a Gen 8 game.

I won’t be sharing anymore details. The announcement isn’t that far away.”

 

Which is pretty...noncommittal.  I am leaning towards spinoff myself.  Assuming this is real at all.  The titles sound very...spinoffy.  Also, am I the only one confused about the green Pokemon in the logo?  Assuming it's real, why is it styled like the Pokemon from the Leaf Green logo with the leaf texture when neither mascot is a grass type.  

Also, a fan art of what the Eevee logo would look like already cropped up, showing how spectacularly hard it is to use PS :P



Nuvendil said:
Asriel said:

Yeah, plenty of signs that this is real. I'm really interested in the idea of a reboot rather than a remake and I'm interested in how they're going to change things up. Not that hot on Go functionality; I'd assume that's optional. My guess is the only mechanic they really integrate is the streamlined catching for wild Pokemon, with tougher Pokemon (i.e. legendaries etc) requiring that you fight them and weaken them to catch them. My one concern would be that Game Freak haven't pushed the Switch very far technically; that kind of conservatism is typical of them.

I'd like to see this become a game as service, especially if it meant a new region was added each year (or available to buy).

EDIT: Capitalising on Pokemon Go also makes a great deal of sense. Given 750 million people downloaded Go, you only need to reach a tiny percentage of that userbase to add new customers to Pokemon's main games and to the Switch userbase. A conversion rate of ~0.5 to 1% would mean anywhere from 3 to 8 million new Switch users.

It only makes sense if you assume that audience is even remotely interested in paying $360 to play a beefed up version of a modest pass time.  That most of them stopped playing over a year ago.  If they fully gut these games to water them down for the Go audience, they will be setting decades of history on fire for not much in guaranteed return.  A pointless gamble since a core Pokemon RPG would be guaranteed for 15mil sold.

Um. Nowhere did I suggest they'd gut the game or change it completely and nowhere is it suggested they're completely gutting the franchise to appeal to Go owners. From my perspective I mainly meant the shift in branding to "Let's Go!". And, like I said, to attract several million new customers, you don't really need to have a high success rate. Up to 1% would mean several million new consumers and anything above that would be very impressive.

Whether this is a 'core game' or not has me leaning towards core game - they could easily be using the 3DS game engine and assets upscaled to HD, with new animations, textures and lighting models. Sun/Moon actually looks quite good running in Citra, for example. Additionally, Game Freak have never developed anything other than the main-series RPGs when it comes to Pokemon games. If this was a spin-off, it wouldn't be coming from Game Freak and it wouldn't have Junichi Masuda in charge.



Asriel said:
Nuvendil said:

It only makes sense if you assume that audience is even remotely interested in paying $360 to play a beefed up version of a modest pass time.  That most of them stopped playing over a year ago.  If they fully gut these games to water them down for the Go audience, they will be setting decades of history on fire for not much in guaranteed return.  A pointless gamble since a core Pokemon RPG would be guaranteed for 15mil sold.

Um. Nowhere did I suggest they'd gut the game or change it completely and nowhere is it suggested they're completely gutting the franchise to appeal to Go owners. From my perspective I mainly meant the shift in branding to "Let's Go!". And, like I said, to attract several million new customers, you don't really need to have a high success rate. Up to 1% would mean several million new consumers and anything above that would be very impressive.

Whether this is a 'core game' or not has me leaning towards core game - they could easily be using the 3DS game engine and assets upscaled to HD, with new animations, textures and lighting models. Sun/Moon actually looks quite good running in Citra, for example. Additionally, Game Freak have never developed anything other than the main-series RPGs when it comes to Pokemon games. If this was a spin-off, it wouldn't be coming from Game Freak and it wouldn't have Junichi Masuda in charge.

Ah, the branding.  I thought you meant gameplay changes.  

And there's a first time for everything mind.  And they could use Sun and Moon as a starting point graphically.  If that leaked screenshot is real though, they are reverting to grid based land.  That will be a MASSIVE step backwards, imo.  A big part of Sun and Moon's visual imrpovement was a move to more natural land forms.  Now I think the screenshot is fake but if they are going full on nostalgia bait, they may be *that* dense and revert to that.



Also, curious note.

pokemonletsgoeevee.com and pokemonletsgopikachu.com are just empty pages. Didn't the Sun and Moon domains redirect to the main Pokemon site when Nintendo claimed them?