Junichi Masuda Set To Share Some New Pokémon Gaming News On Japanese TV This Sunday

Waluigi will be your rival

Gym leaders will now give you a badge even if you lose because hey, you tried your best!

It'll be more news on Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee. Saying this in advance before all the diehard Pokemon fans get their expectations through the roof expecting 30 minutes of gen 8 news just to end being disappointed and salty that GameFreak didn't offer them the news that they never promised them yet they expected them to.

@bratzdoll At this point that wouldn't surprise me in the slighest.

Pokémon Bank for Switch

I need MORE Fashion items for my trainer.
Trainer should be fancier as the Pikachu / Eevee does.

new participation badges are coming! you do anything you want if you can dream it

Honestly at this point I just want anything that doesn't make this look like a complete oudated cash grab. Minigames, a new character, a new area, new post-game content, just anything that's actually new and we haven't seen before in a Kanto focused game.

Propably nothing too exciting will be revealed there. It's not a new generation but a remake of the first games.

Announcing Auto Play Mode (APM), because the experience simply wasn't casual enough when you had to actively play the game!

You don't even have to touch the Switch to turn it on!

Now also compatible with Alexa! Ask her to play Pokémon Let's Go for you if you need a break!

@bratzdoll So, just like the cartoon, then. Ash is the king of participation trophies.

So much saltiness here...

“I’ve not played this game that’s clearly not designed for me, so it must be the worst thing imaginable!”

@gaga64 yeah, pretty much. Don’t forget the old standby “This game isn’t for me, so no one should enjoy it!” And “Even though a new Pokémon game comes out next year, Let’s Go should never exist”.
I’m looking forward to Let’s Go, and I’m probably not going to get next year’s entry. Don’t have time in my life for a grinding entry.

what is this new pokemon trend all about

It’s gonna be the return of fatchu !!

@HobbitGamer @gaga64

It really can't be a shock to anyone that Pokémon on Switch is rung in by a re-gen rather than a new gen. And it's already been more years since Fire Red and Leaf Green, than it was between those games and the original releases.

I'm sure the new crowd of players will be welcoming Let's Go with much glee and enjoyment.

Let's Go looks fun! The only thing I'm not too sure on is the catching system but it looks tolerable even if I don't like it. I'm actually more annoyed that all the gimmicky crap such as Mega evolutions are back. I just want some pokemon to beat some other pokemon without one being so strong the rest of the party is on the bench.

@VexingInsanity I’ve only played Pokémon silver but am looking forward to playing a modern Pokémon game. What’s a mega evolution?

@HobbitGamer Boy, imagine the rage these diehard fans will have when this game have a review score in the 80's and becomes one of the highest sellers of this year, along with God of War, Spiderman, Monster Hunter World, Far Cry 5, COD:Black Ops 4, and Red Dead Redemption 2.

@bratzdoll @Tarolusa You two seriously think they gonna make it that easy where even if you lose a gym battle, they'll give you a badge anyway?

I've watched this show before live while waiting for an announcement, and don't let me tell you how disappointing it was.

@SimplyCinnamon53 Certain pokemon can hold an item to temporarily evolve digimon style. You can only use one per battle but that pokemon is permanently in that form til it dies in that battle. it doesnt even use up a turn to evolve. Some Mega evolutions change the typing but its not many. One example would be mega charizard X becoming dragon fire type.

@VexingInsanity Thanks for the explanation, I get annoyed when someone uses a max heal so I doubt I’d like that item very much 😂

@amiiboacid Ha, I remember the Nintendo Life live chat for the ORAS reveal. That was an experience.

It's probably Let's Go news, but I find it interesting that he didn't specify a specific game...

@HobbitGamer I like to imagine what the modern internet would have thought when Yoshi’s Island was announced. “How dare they call this Mario World 2! Look at this childish art style! Why’s Mario a baby! Nintendo have ruined Mario forever!”

You can do this for most classic games. “Why does Zelda need a targeting lock-on? It’s not a shooter! Why is this fairy following Link around talking all the time? This series is ruined forever!”

“Why does Mario have a tail? Ruined forever!”

“Why is Pac-Man now a girl? This is PC equality madness! Ruined forever!”

“What on earth would Mario drive a go-Kart with Bowser? Ruined forever!”

What i expect: Pokemon Spinoff, Pokemon LG P/E
What i Hope: Main 2019 Pokemon game.
kinda going too far with this.

These variety shows tend to reveal next to nothing, don’t get your hopes up for anything new. I remember the first “footage” of ORAS was revealed on this show and it was just a cutscene of Groudon/Kyogre rising out of Seafloor Cavern, no new information or actual gameplay or anything. If you’re expecting anything more than nothing, prepare to be disappointed, most likely whatever we get may as well be nothing.

Finally.

@Tarolusa diehard fans like me knows that we won't see the game untill before e3 2019 and we all know the first reveal will be a teaser only idk what kind of people you're talking about

Usually these TV reveals are something small and of little consequence. I'm sure it'll entail something about Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee.

@gaga64 I'm still not sure just who exactly this game IS designed for... the audience of people who are casual enough to still play Pokemon Go but don't want to play a real Pokemon game, AND who also own a $300 gaming console and are willing to drop $60 on a different version of a phone game can't be a very large audience.

Literal best case scenario for this is they show what the new Pokemon you can get from Let's Go! is, and considering all the hype they've lost since announced, this wouldn't be too surprising.

And agaiiiiiiiiiiin!!, Some users of Nintendo Life never disappoint me with their negativism, bad sarcasm, hatred about a game that is focused on a different audience and not for those who feel "hardcore" (what a horrible nickname for that type of players...) that, also, they forget in the first place that video games are for ""everyone""!!!!!

Edit: and well, to show that I not only come to show my "negativism" also because of the negativism of this web ...; about the news, well if I remember correctly, it is not long before the "leaks" of the Coro Coro magazine are ahead of Masuda's announcement, well, unless they are delayed or if it is a more interesting and secret advertisement, well, just to wait.

@Pokeman_noob go check on twitter, then you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. It's pretty much become a meme just how disillusion the fanbase have become.

@Slasher With how casualised their making the game, it honestly wouldn't surprise me if the game gave you the option to automatically obtain the badge if you've losed the gym battle two times prior.

@gaga64
The internet was always thus. I remember the ‘outrage’ over Luigi’s Mansion, Double Dash and Wind Waker.

@SakuraHaruka You didn't think this through did you
you said this in the same sentence?

"a game that is focused on a different audience and not for those who feel hardcore"

and then you said

"they forget in the first place that video games are for everyone"

what?

Probably more damage control in order to calm the masses, the reaction to this game was lukewarm.

Sorry this game isnt for me I am gonna wait till next year no matter how much Nintendo wants me to buy into gen wunner nostalgia.

@Varubajia
I think you do not understand my main point about ""video games are for everyone"".
I mean, in this case, Pokemon has been a game for everyone, obviously, there are people, or rather "groups" (I can mention the ones that proclaim themselves "" hardcore "") that prefer games like "must be", games that have a "hardcore nature", that is, They have an "essence" and believe that it should not be altered.
But, As I mentioned since a start, Pokemon is a game for all, then, Why Pokemon Pikachu and Pokemon Eevee, that are games that are based on the main games, but that, let's say, are more "spin off", and aimed at "the whole public" in the first place, why they must be "hardcore" games?, why leave them as Are they being developed? If they do not even afflict the main game in some way; why do they hate so much?, do they resent something they did not buy in the first place?, really, "they" do not really want everyone to "play their way"?

Whatever they announce, it will angry 1/3 of the fanbase, disappoint another 1/3 and the rest wont care.

@Heavyarms55
We can say that this is normal, it is very "extremely" strange that something makes 100% of people happy and I repeat it, it is normal, "but ..."
taking this case of these games, after 2 or 3 news, it is known that 60 to 80% of people do not like these games; then, why even those people who do not like the games, who simply will not buy them, come to express "again" disappointment, anger and "make feel" bad to the few that we like those games?.

That is my point and the why of my "annoying" comments, XD.
I repeat again, I know that not everyone has the same preferences and that it is normal to express some disagreement, disappointment, annoyance explaining why, we all do it at some time; but already in these cases as in this note / news (and in others), this already becomes very exaggerated and annoying.

@SakuraHaruka 60-80% seems wildly high.

@shoeses I think the assumption is that there are casual Go players who can be tempted into spending a fat wad of cash on a Switch and the game(s) as a stepping stone towards a “proper” Pokemon game as a secondary niche in addition to the one you described.

But as you implied, it’s a big pile of money to spend if they haven’t yet committed to a Switch.

I can easily believe there are a significant number of people put off the core series games as having become overly complicated with each iteration, who may be tempted by this revitalised refresh. Of course Pokemon is a prime example of the Smash principle where the games are flexible enough to be as deep or shallow as you want it to be, but even the vastness of the number of monsters now can seem off-putting when the infamous tag line is to Catch Em All...

He will announce that Let's Go games will have the play themselves mode where you just watch!

@SakuraHaruka i am hating on them because they have a big chance of affecting the main series or become a new series if they became a new series they will have an impact on the main series and you can expect that we wont get a proper remake rip gen 4 and after and aside of that who knows what features could get from that game to the newer games and the fact that gamefreak is thinking that genwunners are really there fans and they're treating them with as much as kanto possible is nearly driving me crazy

No, this isn't a Switch game, because Pokemon only releases on handhelds, and moronic fanboys keep saying that 3DS is the handheld, Switch is not- only a home system meaning it can only be played at home, so clearly this is a 3DS game according to fanboys...

I tell you something very simple, if you wait for the negative, if you expect that "the bad" will happen, then, really "It will happen".
And another simple thing too, do not worry about a future that nobody, really nobody knows what will happen; what has to happen, it will happen, just enjoy what there is.

Believe me, I have lived this before with my favorite series, Need For Speed and yes, I understand you, I really understand you, but I can not afford to show a hatred or dislike for that; Of course that really I expressed my disappointment, sadness, but why should I bother, show a hatred for every news about a new NFS that I see that I will not like and maybe don't buy? because in the end, I'm not the only one who enjoys those games, there are more people and we have to "give them their chance" to enjoy something that, maybe, we do not like; we should not show "selfishness"

Well, I could tell you a lot, but not to lengthen the comment; just do not "mortify" yourself and others for these games and enjoy what there is; the time will tell us everything.

@gaga64 That's a pretty huge assumption on Nintendo's part to create a game thinking people will go from a free-to-pay game to a $360+ investment for a very similar experience though.

Have to disagree with you here though - competitive nonsense aside, the main games are getting extra dumbed down and simplified with each entry, and aside from Double Battles in Gen 3, each new gameplay gimmick has been totally optional. Even 'Catching Them All' has become incredibly easy for new players with things like the GTS, Wonder Trade, & things like online forums and groups, to the point where I've seen people start off 7 Gens in and complete the PokeDex withing a month or 2.