Game Freak excited to see the main way people play Switch, will try to make a Pokemon game that meets expectations

[StarDoor]

What's really interesting is the part at 3:12.

Forum post: "All I ask is that they take the basic Pokémon premise of 'Gotta Catch Em All', in a large, open-ish world. Bam, done."
Masuda: "We're making it!"

Open-ish world confirmed? If they didn't want to promise that, I feel like they would have said something else. In response to the next forum post, Masuda says he doesn't know if the game will be 40+ hours, so he's clearly reading the whole statement.