Reshiram and Zekrom? I wonder when they'll post pics

Whatever happened to catchy sets of names like Ho-Oh and Lugia, Dialga and Palkia? These sound more like Final Fantasy monster names.

omg yet another pokeymann game

Here's what they look like:

I'm waiting for grey version.

I bet for sure they are either Dragon or Flying.

Two Palkia ripoffs. Joy.

Still waiting for that Shuckle evolution...

Hmmm...

The legendries feel like bad Hoax Pokemon where they just cut and paste parts from different Poke-(and sometimes Digi) mon

They're okay, but my favorite Legendary is/always will be Mewtwo. I'm leaning towards Black 'cause Zekrom looks cooler.

I wonder what the Spring 2011 release date means in relation to the 3DS? I guess these could be among the last major releases on DS prior to 3DS hitting N. America?

What colors could they come up with next? I forgot about black and white, and then they announced it and was like "oh ya...", but what other colors? Magenta and the opposite blue color(i don't know what it's called)?

@13: cyan

Whoa, the legendaries actually look pretty damn cool!

Palkia, Dialga, and Giratina were huge disappointments to me after the awesomeness of G3 and G2 legends. They have officially made it up to me. Especially since these look like dragon types!

I'm glad that these actually represent the games well. When I saw palkia and dialga, I didn't really think "diamond and pearl", and giratina wasn't related to platinum at all. These really do look black and white.

I hope these games come out on the 3DS. I had heard it was supposed to come out this year, so it would be odd if perhaps the largest portable franchise came out on what will become an outdated (though still great) system (DS, DS lite, DSi, DSiXL). The vague-ness of "DS Family" mentioned in the article really doesn't help... After all, don't the original Game Boy and the Game Boy Micro all belong to the Game Boy Familly?

of coarse it be out in spring noa likes releasing them around march

The backround in the picture is screwing me up. I can't tell if the black one will be in the Black version or since the backround is white if it will be in White version.

Man, I'm totally all about Reshiram... but will the colored legendaries be in OPPOSITE colors or the same? It looks like opposite by the promo.

The legendaries are in the opposite colour game - ie, the white Reshiram is in Black version, and the black Zekrom is in White version.
Here's some high-quality views of them:
Reshiram
Zekrom

Definitely getting Black now!

@21: WTF, that's confusing. That means I'll be getting White, I THINK. Stupid gimmicks.

That image rather reminds of the cover to Archon...

I guess I'm going to get White instead...

Zekrom> Reshiram

They better not be like 400 ft. tall......
The legendaries are getting too rediculously huge.

Now i need to get white? Dang...

Yeah, whatever, call me when grey or whatever the special 3rd edition is called comes out.

...Legendaries look...a little too similar...>_>
Still getting Black though, lol.

I think it is ironic, I mean put the black one with black and the white with white. Now I am getting white.
EDIT: wait that looks like the evolution of that one fire guy, they need better ideas.

THOSE LEGENDARIES LOOK AMAZING O______O

Also, Spring 2011 as I thought.

hmm, i hope they make some pkmn look cute...

Man, I have to get white now! I thought noa would anounce black and white like a month away from release, like they normally do.

Zekrom looks bad, but the other one is meh. A fox-headed dragon!? Really!?

Hell yea im getting black

I think that they look ok(better than Dialga and Palkia, yet not as good as Ho-oh or Lugia)

I pondered on which game to get, and now i've concluded that I shall get Black.

That's awesome! The reshiram is in black! The zerock looks like a black magmortar.

Zekrom for the win...

Moar pogeymans? Awexome!

Yawn...

Oh, God. It just keeps getting worse and worse. First with those BUTT UGLY starter Pokemon and now they're adding insult to injury with these BUTT UGLY legendaries. .

I know character designers come and go, but these Pokemon don't do the series justice. I've seen fan made Pokemon that look infinitely better than what we've seen of Gen V so far. Maybe I'll be convinced otherwise once we see some more Pokemon, but I'm not keeping my hopes up.

I'm skipping this one.....

Good thing I was planning on getting White, because that legendary looks flippin cool!

I think they look rather ugly.
They probably are running out of designs at this stage.

Better to just bring in some of Nintendo's main designers to help out.
How hideously looking can they get?

meh i'll be getting both anyways

I think the Legendaries look AMAZING, and even though I wanted White (I like the Colour White ), I am going to get Black now - I prefer Reshiram. (Confusing for a second there which one was in which game... )

EDIT:Has anyone noticed that Zekrom looks a bit like Garchomp?

By the look of those two legendaries, it seems someone spilled some Digimon into my Pokemon.

I want Bobpie version.

Pokemon has always been a pre-order title for me. This one isn't any different. Plus I want evolutions of Shuckle, Absol, Miltank and Sableye!

@ #2 wildpidgeyappears
These are the Japanese names, I bet they'll get better names in America and Europe.

Ho-oh= Houou
Lugia= Lugia
Dialga= Diaruga
Palkia= Parukia

Ho-oh and Lugia's Japanese names are okay, mostly because they're pretty much the same. But Palkia's and Dialga's Japanese names sound like something your doctor would diagnose you with.

@51
You say it as though the Japanese names came after the English

It's the same names... it's just that Japan fails with L and R.

These are the version exclusive legendaries? I'll wait until there is more info before making my judgement, but right now they look kinda lame. We also have enough dragon legendaries for the last four generations, could we have something different Nintendo?

I don't know which to get. Normally I go with the underdog color.(Pearl, Heart gold) but so far people's opinions are too evenly matched.

@54: Actually Gen 3 was the first gen to have a Dragon-type Legendary Pokémon:
Gen 1: Mewtwo (Psychic)
Gen 2: Ho-oh (Fire/Flying), Lugia (Psychic/Flying)
Gen 3: Groudon (Ground), Kyogre (Water), Rayquaza (Dragon/Flying)
Gen 4: Dialga (Steel/Dragon), Palkia (Water/Dragon), Giratina (Ghost/Dragon)

Why not white-for-white and black-for-black...?
Now you had me mixed... I wanted White...

@54 "These are the version exclusive legendaries?"
If they do it like in HG/SS, then they may both be catchable in both versions.

I'm really surprised as to how Pokemon USA just blatantly announced these games. I think it was a bit too early to even do so- at least when it comes to the US shores, not Japan.

What I really want is Multi Battle Online... Please do this Gamefreak! D:

I was done with Pokemon after the last gen. I think I picked a good time to stop.

I just stay away from Pokemon. It looks like the developers just slap a new name on the same formula. I don't get why long-time fans buy each new edition when it comes out. All it is is the same decent Pokemon game.

hey, your loss.

@NassaDane: I see your point.

@61
"I don't get why long-time fans buy each new edition when it comes out."
...because we are long-time fans, who (as opposed to people who aren't) love the series.
" All it is is the same decent Pokemon game." You admit it is at least decent, at least

I want Zekrom!!

zekrom is dragon electric (i know right? awesome!!) and rashiram is dragon fire (and isn't weak to water) there's 30+ new pokemon (mijumaru, tsutarja and pokabu are the starters) and there is possibly a luvdisc evo. and u can get a psychic type right away to called munna (me and my friends call it the pink egg pokemon with the flowery butt XD) get ur serebii.net on!