The Poké Ball Plus Has A Secret Feature That Makes Pokémon GO Easier To Play

Well, one Pokeball is quite expensive.
As long the Pokeball is OPTIONAL, i can play with my Joy Con.

Nope. And what is an accessor? ; )

Now you can make even the most basic parts of the gameplay Pokemon Go away.

The worst part of Pokemon Let's Go has been the "fans" raging non-stop.

We are getting a mainline release next year. You aren't obligated to like these games, but leave the people who are okay with them alone.

I prefer ordered the pokeball. I’m excited for both this and the mainline next year

Still not worth spending $40 on.

@Anti-Matter It's slightly cheaper if you buy the bundle, which i plan to do. Plus if you have a discount through Best Buy, GameStop or some other store it can make the Pokeball controller with game combo a little cheaper. I'm glad I held off on buying the standard Pokemon Go Plus.

$19.99... Maybe. $40, not a chance.

Rather spend it getting Yo-kai Watch 3 and Just play this with the joycon. Always choose games before random plastic accessories.

@Spectra They never said Mew was exclusive for the Pokeball Plus. It will probably be given away in an event later on.

@Spectra @Lynox mew has never been required to complete the Pokédex, not sure why they would begin now.

At most you'll probably just miss the one battle with the Mew expert, assuming there's one.

@Spectra eh. Even if I had the mew chances are I wouldn't bother with the master battle anyway.

It's useless fluff, and it doesn't deprive me of my sleep to think about the possibility of missing it. Same as with basically every event pokemon... I do like getting them, but I don't actually use any of them...

Uhm beating every master with every Pokemon is going to be the most grind heavy thing in the world. You must be a pure masochist to believe that being able to fight one less 'mon Master some how points to Nintendo being anti-consumer and withholding content. At some point we need to take responsibility for the extent that a hobby becomes a job, as if we are entitled to control over such minutia.

Lame game. Lame accessory. No. I'm not a Pokémon fan.accessor = someone or something that can access. Wrong word. I hope this terrible attempt to lure in Pokemon go players fails so Nintendo would use resources on something gamers actually won't. My opinion. No I won't change it because someone disagrees. I'm standing by for angry comments from the nintendo protection squad. ❤️

@Heavyarms55 if they really are releasing the mainline game next year (it will probably get delayed to 2020) they could have put that out first and then poke go.
Just the proof of which audience is more important to nintendo.

@Spectra I understand why it bothers you, but it's really not the first time they put a Pokemon behind a paywall.

There's been pokemon exclusive to side games, pokemon exclusive to parks, Pokemon exclusive to paid events.

I don't think this is any different from, say, giving you a Jirachi for preordering Pokemon Colosseum (and that was impossible to use as is in the game you had just bought, you had to get a GBA, a Pokemon Game for it, a niche Link Cable... And then beat the GameCube game to enable trading!).

(And they also tried to make a Pokemon event exclusive but still needed to complete the Pokedex...)

I honestly doubt many people will buy the pokeball for the express reason of getting a mew, and I honestly doubt they'll make mew a merchandise exclusive deal from now on.

This coupled with adventure sync means I no longer have to play the game to play the game!

The Poké Ball Plus Has A Secret Feature That Was Part Of The Original Poké Ball Plus Announcement And So Not A Secret At All

how hard would it be to add a hard mode to this game, like most other games these days just add some difficulty levels when you start the game. this would be a must buy for many people if they did that who like myself are really on the fence here. i get the appealing to new players but this would suit everyone.

For 50 bucks there better be diamonds inside

"one last secret"

How do you know this is the last secret? Oh I see, NL guessing...again. smh

So much negativity! Do not forget that it is actually a specialized Joy Con with fairly advanced tech inside. I think the price is fair and I am certainly excited to use it.

And is completly optional!

"One last weird secret!"

@The_ghostmen How has this not occurred to you? That them putting out the mainline game second is the better choice. Doing Let's Go first lets them experiment with learning to develop for the Switch, which is a new console for Game Freak. It lets them practice making HD 3D models and should have let them try new things without taking the heat they would have taken had they tried those things in a mainline game.

But no, people like you just constantly going "BLARG!!!! How dare Game Freak make a game for the casuals! It's a betrayal! GRRR! I'm so angry!"

Why shouldn't they make a game tailored to the casual audience? Like it or not, the casual audience has always been their primary target and the biggest chunk of their sales.

Pokemon Go has been downloaded an estimated 800 million times. If 1% of that number, just ONE PERCENT, buy Pokemon Let's Go, that's 8 MILLION sales and instantly a top selling game on Switch If 0.25% of Pokemon Go downloads results in a sale of Let's Go, that's 2 million copies sold and an instant spot on the top 10 list of best selling Switch games.

Game Freak would be out of their minds not to try capitalizing on that.

@Heavyarms55 A lot of so-called fans just act entitled as evidenced by Federation Force, Doom Immortal, Pokemon Lets Go.

@The_ghostmen
It takes Gamefreak ~3 years to push out a new Pokemon generation. Either they release Let's Go this year and the new Gen 8 entry next year, or just the new Gen 8 entry next year and no Pokemon game whatsoever this year.

And based on Gamefreak's incredibly consistent development history over the last 2+ decades, I would be stunned if next year's Gen 8 Pokemon entry got pushed back beyond the 2019 holidays , let alone by a whole year.

One pokeball and I’m out of here!

Not really a secret since they have had the Go plus to spin and catch pokemon in Go for about 2 years. Buying it for the spin option is dumb if you already have a goplus, but if you have that sell it and buy a Got-Cha instead it's a lot smaller and you don't have to press the button auto plays for you!

@Lynox
They might require you to buy their online service to get to it though.
(Although with it you can probably just trade for a Mew if you don't want to buy the Pokeball.)

@mantez
Buy 10 and you get a Premier Ball with it

My kids want one and I’m sure it would complete the experience but it’s just too expensive. I’ll pass.

For $50 it should capture the Pokémon in Go for you as well. I wasted 9 Pokeballs and 4 fruit trying to catch a Pokémon in my living room last night. It eventually ran away after breaking out of 4 balls. 😠

Eevee is on pre-order, $50 for this piece of plastic is utterly absurd. For $50 you can hut a kids smart watch with a screen that let's them play games and lots of other stuff. The original Pokeball should have been $20 and this one $30 tops. A Joycon is $40 and one of those has a camera, and each of those face buttons, shoulder buttons, a stick and HD rumble and a removable strap interface and lights to tell you it's on. How on earth is 1 very limited Pokebsll Plus worth more than 1 Joycon? No way, no how.

@Spectra Mew is not behind a paywall. It is possible to get one in the mobile version and transfer it across. Free.

@deKay Not really. They announced GO integration like a Go+, and also that you could put a Let's Go Pokémon inside the PokéBall to walk, but not that one would benefit the other. Honestly, with their track record, I was half-expecting one to NULLIFY the other... so this is a pleasant surprise for me

@Heavyarms55 Anecdotal, but my friend is buying a Switch and Let’s Go Eevee with the ball. She’s been on the fence for her own Switch since her roommate has one, but this gave her added value since she plays Go a lot with her mother when she visits. So that’s at least $400 there, 😆

I still don't understand all the moaning and griping about these games. LGPikachu just looks like plain old fun to play. I'm merely a "filthy casual" when it comes to Pokemon. I don't do post-game, I don't do competitive, I don't have secret Pokegovernment breeding programs. I just play the campaigns, explore the world, and enjoy them. If I'm looking for a catch-em-all JRPG to take excessively seriously there's SMT and Persona, which force you to take it excessively seriously.

LGPikachu is a video game. Video games are meant to be fun. LGPikachu looks fun.

The rest of you lot, what do you care, you're going to be fixated on Smash a week and a half later and obsessing over Olimar's cracked helmet, and Bayonetta's hair featuring two new braids for the next 18 months.

Glad I bought the version of Lets Go Pikachu that comes with the Pokeball bundled in the box. It's really annoying to use my regular Plus and walk by areas where I know there are pokestops but all I end up getting are Pokémon. The old Plus device always prioritized Pokémon catching unless you deactivated that to focus solely on Pokestops. From what I'm reading here, it sounds like that as long as the Pokeball Plus has a Pokémon inside it, it'll automatically spin Pokestops where Pokémon also spawn at. That will save a lot of time!!!

@NEStalgia OMG totally agree!!!!!!!!

@Agramonte I wouldn't have e bought a $50 pokeball accessory either but with the 20% discount from BB's gamer club plus some rewards cash I had only ended up paying like $65 so was worth it. Otherwise I agree it's expensive although it's a joycon too. Can you actually use it with any other game?

@MaSSiVeRiCaN Oh wow... yeah 100% worth it in my book if you did that.

Almost here - Hope you enjoy it. 👍

@frogopus Love the story bro. Hope the two of u are going to love the game ❤️

@Spectra What you're saying is like saying that a Mario Odyssey collector's coin is $60, while ignoring the game that goes with it.

It's also strange to see many Pokémon fans be totally fine with buying both versions of the game, why start complaining about the Poké Ball Plus now?

@Schizor88 You're going to end up disappointed. If Nintendo and Game Freak get even 1% of the total downloads of Pokémon GO, that's several million there.

@Spectra its honestly the why i think the game is joycon or pokeball only to try and get this add on sale, ive said it before theres no reason to force motion controls on us when weve been using a button for decades you can have motion controls but give us non motion control options.

If you caught Mew in Pokemon go through the long Quest... I have bad news for you, you cannot transfer Mew from Pokemon go in to Pokemon let's go Pikachu or Eevee!! They have said that multiple times! And the main reason for them making it that way, it's just so that they can sell that stupid accessory!

So as of the release of this new Switch pokemon game... Mew will only be obtainable through buying a Pokeball plus accessory! Stupid! I already caught a Mew and there's no way I'm spending $50 just to get a second one that, I will not even be able to use in Pokemon go at all!
(I do not own a Switch)

However, that does not mean they won't re-release Mew in the future!! I bet they do!

@hakjie11 There ARE diamonds inside it - no, no really, honestly, there are! Go on, quick, preorder one and break it open before everyone else floods the market! Cash in and be rich!

(Shh, nobody say otherwise!)

I’m cool with that feature. I’m getting the bundle at Best Buy with the Gamers Club so that’s $20 off right there (not counting rewards discount).

Would also like it if the Pokeball plus can catch Pokémon on its own but I guess they need Oranguru or Passimian for that.

Can’t wait to get mine!

The continued sales of Zelda, Splatoon and Mario Kart are truly impressive. I'm very curious to see where Pokemon lands.

I don't know about the rest but I am having buyers remorse do I really need that Poke ball just incase I accidentally toss and break it. Considering this Pokemon will be not a rare item I might have to pass on it til my finances work on better terms. So does anyone on here believe if you don't buy the package that is will no longer be offered?

Paid. Can't wait to play it

Wasn’t this already implied when they said it worked as a Pokemon Go Plus at announcement.

I don't understand nothing selection or navigate Pokeball Plus is lack of many button. Without pressing A and B buttons. A little problem. Do I need Pro Controller.

@The_ghostmen I guess u have seen the pokemon direct this year??and you are wrong this year

Great, as if this game wasn’t so easy enough already