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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Pokemon Direct announced for January 9th 2020

GF's happy new year message mentioned moving on to the next challenge so I guess that's what the focus of the direct will be.



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Hopefully it's free additional content for Sword and Shield and not a third version.

Would be far too early to announce third version anyway.



I don't see gamefreak giving a free update for post game content. But i think it is pretty suspicious we only have 3 legendaries this gen.. like not even ones from the past generations so i'm pretty sure we will atleast have that for free, hopefully not just a gift but a full on event that would be cool.

Also those home/sleep thing we will probably have some news about that. Maybe a new spinoff game too aka Detective or Mystery Dungeon.



Not the Direct we wanted, but it's the Direct we deserve. I'm sure the general one will show up as Pokemon Directs always coincide with it so this doesn't bother me. Perhaps we'll actually get a much needed Sw/Sh patch/update beyond Pokemon Home maybe!? Too optimistic, will likely be mostly about Home, the subscription service on top of a subscription service that's supposed to already give you cloud saves.

I don't think we'll see Ultra Sw/Sh or Gen 4 remakes here, too soon after Sw/Sh released to announce and that would make it 5 years in a row we get a new mainline Pokemon. Not impossible though, how close in proximity to Sw/Sh really makes no difference, we already know it would release in the holidays, and completely annualizing the series would further explain some things.

KLXVER said:
Jpcc86 said:
Pokemon Spear announcement.

When was the last time they did that kind of special third edition? Pokémon Platinum on the DS?

That is correct, we can expect games to release in pairs always from now on. Frankly it's not a big deal, the majority of their releases already had 2 versions, and it's not like you have to buy both versions especially now with online trading.



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Already better than I expected :o



the looping is silly....






Coop mode
I may be interested



Okay so they announced DLC that should have already been in the game, and want to charge us $30 for it? -_-



Mixed feelings.

The expansion pack itself seems good. But, I'd be more receptive to it if the single player in the base game had more content. Feels like at least some of this content should have been there.