A little while ago we told you about Pokémon Tretta Lab coming to the 3DS in Japan, an app accompanied by fairly bulky hardware to bring an arcade experience home. It arrives in the region on 10th August, with the app being free but the hardware costing 3,800 yen (approx. £25 / €30 / $38).
This provides a variation of Pokémon Tretta arcades found throughout Japan, where you collect plastic discs for different 'mon and use them to enter battles to win more discs. It's a form of NFC (near field communication), and certainly taps into the collect'em'all instincts, while the 3DS app offers Tretta Analyser, Type Checker and Auto Battle modes to explore.
While we know a fair bit about it, it's nevertheless pleasing to finally see it in action courtesy of the new trailer, below. It's smaller than the arcade, which is nice, but still seizes the crown of bulkiest 3DS accessory out there, which is going some with the Circle Pad Pro XL doing the rounds. Check it out below and let us know what you think.
[source kotaku.com]
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Well that's... something. I won't care if that doesn't come here, and I love pokemon.
Officially confused.
i want it
What did I watch, and why am I so confused?XD
It actually looks kinda cool
Next up: the arcade machine docking station for your poké walker.
Is it really more awkward then carrying around a Skylanders or Disney Infinity portal?
I wonder if such a thing has potential in the U.S. They should try and make some ridiculous money with accessories.
Looks neat! If they could do something with those cards like raising the pokemon. Then you could send them to your friends through mail or giving the cards to them . There might be some neat things you could do with this
That's actually kinda cool. Do the cards save data like Skylanders?
@feline2 =_=
@Coldfirex44 what wrong with that. ok a little big but i collect pokemon and nintendo games and that will look good on my pikachu 3ds xl
Wtf? You know this will never see the light of day outside of Japan. I'm still waiting to get the pokemon typing game in the US.
@KnightRider666 You could always import the European version.
@KeeperBvK: True, but I want a US version.
Yeah knowing Nintendo this awesome device will never leave Japan.
That's confusing. I live in Japan and if this is free I'll get it. But from this description I'm confused. Its funny because my Japanese is actually ok, but this game seems weird. Or it seems to not be an actual game, rather than an app.
Someone please explain 2:28
He put Jolteon in and Flareon appeared.
I thought this was a joke when i first saw it. it looks so...........weird.
I love it when they say something in English. It's .1% easier to understand that way.
I love pokemon...but this...I definitely dont want. Everything is so bulky and for no reason.
@Azooooz Don't hit yourself...
@aj_fowl We don't know about Disney Infinity, but Skylanders actually stores two Skylanders on the game at a time and the next game will apparently let you have them all at once and switch between them, soooo...
The arcade machine is awfully popular in Japan, so while it's no huge surprise to me they made a sequel, I'm a bit surprised they'd put it on the 3DS. And it's not going to come out of Japan. It's in Japan due to its predecessor's popularity, which it certainly doesn't have elsewhere.
Wouldn't it make more sense for this to come to Wii U with the NFC sensor built in? Well, no chance for western release anyway.
@LexKitteh - That's what I'm thinking. Although I suppose the 3DS comes with the pro of wireless battling.
@Tsuchinoko I believe the app is free but the hardware has a price. Quite what the app does without the add-on, I'm not sure.
What exactly do you do with this? Do you just watch an animation of them bouncing off of each other?
That machine is huge, but it's understandable, because it teleports you to a red and white room.
Maybe those disc things will be like the cards. I'm confused. I would have thought Pokemon cards would have AR readability buult in instead of this.
I wish this and the arcade machine came to NA. Seems like something I'd keep popping in coins or swiping a card for.
It could make decent sales in NA, even in the state arcades are in here. I remember this one arcade game from about 8 years back called Dinosaur King. The game itself was essentially glorified Rock Paper Scissors (seriously, they didn't even hide that), but every time you started it up the machine spat out a Dinosaur card for you to swipe into the game as your monster of choice. I've seen kids hogging the machine, hoping to collect all of the cards. That's the only reason anybody actually played the game; paying a dollar to play Rock Paper Scissors against a CPU (or your friend) doesn't sound like a very good way to spend money. I'm sure Marvelous and Nintendo put together a better game then that, and I would definitely give this a try if I saw it around.
Then again, back when Dinosaur King came out, my friends were still playing Pokemon. In this day and age when kids of all ages are playing Call of Duty, a Pokemon arcade game having success in NA would be a tossup. I guess the success of this would be determined by how many "Collect 'Em All" people often visit arcades. It seems like a longshot of coming here, but I would love to give this game a try.
Now that I've seen the back of it, my god that thing is HUGE! 0_0
pandas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i want this, pokemon battrio, and the wiiware mystery dungeons released on wii U
this is horse dung
wow thats a big pokemon machine!
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