Yep, to the surprise of no-one really Nintendo will use the NFC abilities of the WiiU gamepad to allow you to scan Pokemon into your game.
http://ca.ign.com/articles/2013/03/13/pokemon-wii-u-game-follows-in-skylanders-footsteps
What IS surprising is that it's for a downloadable Pokemon Rumble game.
Personally I find this to be a horrid idea.
Not that Nintendo would use Pokemon to pimp toys, they have been doing that for years and in no game does the toy/game connection make more sense than in Pokemon. Really a full Pokemon game on WiiU which allowed you to truly (as in, in real life) collect them all, would crush Skylanders in sales of both games and toys. (Not a portable style pokemon (where it'd take away from gameplay if you are able to merely buy hard to capture ones) but at least a Coliseum style with a storyline that allowed this functionality)
So it seems like an incredible waste that Nintendo would instead squander that potential on a Pokemon Rumble game and $2 toys.
What you guys think?
