A New Pokémon Game Is On The Way From The Studio Behind Call Of Duty Mobile

I wonder how Tencent plans to get around the whole “having high quality animations for all our Pokémon” problem that’s stumping GameFreak over in the main series at the moment.

@SmaMan I'm ready to see my trainer dab and do the Charleston

Maybe they're gonna bring that bootleg Pokemon game with good animations to the Switch. . .

Call of Pokémon: Wild Area Ops

A text adventure would be super cute and play well on a phone

>TFW Gardevoir snipes a poor Pikachu and does the floss
Definitely on my wish list!

The whole "BringBackNationalDex" thing is further proof that complaining does indeed shrink brain cells

@Noid ?????

@Xelha what’s depressing is the continued THRASHING of Pokémon by it’s supposed “fanbase”. Sword/Shield actually looks incredible (and I was super hesitant at first) and there’s been 3 Pokémon titles already released on the Switch, 4 including Sword/Shield. I would posit that the series has been rather well-served so far on the Switch. Maybe the Nintendo franchise that’s gotten the most attention, really.

I'm not opposed to expanding the franchise production beyond GameFreak but, given how many people bought their Switch just for Pokemon, TPC ought to focus their time and money back home with Nintendo. Personally, I'm not really all that excited with the handful of mobile Pokemon games they've announced so far. Pokemon Go was/is neat, but I really hope it's not a staple of a change in the series to be all about paid loot boxes and storage space, something something giant Pokemon super button. It's feeling less like an RPG and edging toward flashy tower control.

@BENDsli That bootleg game is Digimon Trainers Cyberworld reskinned with Pokemon assets. They did a tiny amount of work making that game. It probably only took a few hours to import game models into the Digimon game. It is just a battle simulator. Goodbye to 80% of what makes a Pokemon game a Pokemon game. Also, those "good animations" features one where Gengar plays a guitar that clips through his body, mostly because the animation was designed for a 3D model that was a lot thinner than Gengar.

YUCK! I'd take Game Freak over Tencent any day of the week!

I dread to know how this cooperation is going to bite Nintendo in the rear. It'll look great to investors, right up until we start seeing Chinese bootleg everything on various pseudo-Amazon type websites.

Electrode is the new Newb Toob. Toss a pokeball in, have Electrode use Self Destruct

@Xelha I would suggest that blind worship and frenzied online mob justice are great examples of toxic fandom that should both be discouraged.

Personally, when a large portion of the fanbase are so quick to pounce and call for boycotts and throw extremely disparaging remarks towards the developers they are fans of (lazy, incompetent, etc) based on sparse info 6 months before release, I gotta question if they’re a bigger fan of playing Pokémon, or a bigger fan of being part of an online group/community.

There’s been three spin offs on the Switch: Pokken Tournament DX (don’t know what being an enhanced port has anything to do with it being discounted, it’s an excellent game), Pokemon Quest (I heard it sucks, but no more than any of these mobile spin offs you’re complaining about), and Let’s Go (why would anyone count this as two titles?).

Call Of Pokemon: Modern Pokefare.
Make this happen please.

Pokemon: The Kanto Warfare should be great.

Only a fraction of Pokemon and some animations..... The rest will be part of the $60 season pass (that of of Gamefreak don't best them to the punch). Haha

Well Pokemon already feels like call of duty with how frequently they come out and very little of done to change things. So why not being over the main people who do this already.

@Xelha there's a reason for that, they are super out of touch https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/c9xw6b/ceo_of_the_pokemon_company_said_the_switch_would/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2olmtb/interview_with_masuda_on_oras_and_why_there_is_no/

Timi have made games like tile swapping games in China, I have played a few of them and a lot of them are a kind of cute art style.

Its strange as a lot of people in China hate Tencent as they just buy the licence for things only to create a fake of it like PUBG mobile, they own the mobile rights but changed the game to be game for peace in China with no PUBG branding but everything is the same.

@Heavyarms55 Or even worse: Tencent buying Nintendo.

If that happens (and I pray it doesn't), then I'm defecting to Xbox and never looking back. Say what you will about Microsoft, but at least I can rest easy knowing that Halo, Forza, and Rareware will never sell out to the Beijing "people's republic."

(And no offense to any Chinese readers here: you are not the problem.)

@Dragnoran I’m curious if you’ve actually read the entire interview with Business Insider that’s linked in that first Reddit post? Do you get the sense that u/LootnMo read the entire thing? Because I definitely don’t. This is how bad info gets spread. A poor interpretation of an article (like seriously, did he just read the headline?) being used as a source instead of the actual article.

@commentlife I hope you realize that there's an official quote in the first paragraph that confirms the idea. The entire article is about doubts for the console due to mobile phones and how it succeeded due to good games. And while he realized his mistake, the CEO of TPCi still made the assumption in the first place.

Call of Duty and Pokemon
Wait a second I just need to re evaluate what everything means

@EmptyEngineer I would suggest the more important quote comes DIRECTLY after that, “I was wrong.”

Followed by 4 Pokémon titles and counting being released for the system.

I dunno man, you guys are welcome to dig up conspiracy theories about TPC on Reddit if it gives you joy, that’s fine. I just think the facts actually imply an ENTIRELY different scenario than the Reddit detectives would have you believe.

@commentlife "Followed by 4 Pokémon titles and counting being released for the system."

It's as if you completely disregarded @Xelha's well-written post. On all previous handheld systems and home consoles, all Pokémon games were unique to that system, the systems didn't have any ports of older games (quite literally none whatsoever). On the Switch, however, Pokkén Tournament is a port of an older Wii U game. Pokémon Let's Go is the umpteenth remake of the first generation games, but this time around it uses 3D models instead of sprites (wow!) and you can no longer battle wild Pokémon. Pokémon Quest is literally a mobile phone game which they ported just because it was easy to port - it's also pretty bad and the button controls are poor. Pokémon SS is the only real new game, and it doesn't look particularly impressive when you compare it to pretty much any other game on the Switch.

@Xelha
The "Gamefreak is losing relevance to TPC" sentiment makes no sense. Gamefreak literally owns 1/3rd of TPC and is responsible for creating all of the new Pokemon that all other Pokemon games use and the region that all other Pokemon media are set in.

Nintendo owns another 1/3rd of Pokemon, and they are heavily invested in Gamefreak because the mainline Pokemon games are 12-17 million sellers that are key drivers for Nintendo hardware sales.

That leaves Creatures Inc with the remaining 1/3rd of TPC's ownership, and I don't see any reason why the would lose interest in Gamefreak, especially given the fact that they are the ones who make the Pokemon models (that so many people have complained about). They are also making Detective Pikachu 2 for Switch and not mobile, which should tell you where their hardware interests lie.

Ya'll need to stop basing your assumptions on Reddit/Twitter fearmongering acting as if Gamefreak was the disposable slave to master TPC.

@commentlife he still stated this, it's super cocerning he ever thought this way and speaks to why sword and shield might feel rushed, why we see almost no console side games, and even after he still said one should not overestimate the switches potential

@Dragnoran
To be fair, after the Wii U, I can't blame TPC or any gaming company for doubting the Switch.

There were people on this very website who proclaimed that the Switch was DOA back in late 2016/early 2017. There are still some people today who think the Switch will "fall off a cliff" into Wii U-esque irrelevancy once the next PlayStation and Xbox consoles are released.

@nintendoknife you mean the post where they said there’s been no spin offs on the system when there’s actually been several? I didn’t disregard it, I just can’t agree with it because of.. reality? And please don’t talk about coincidences like they were company policy or something. Porting and enhancing Pokken Tournament made just as much sense as all the other DX Wii U ports. Have you played Let’s Go, or did you protest that one with your wallet too?

At least we can agree that Pokémon Quest sucks. But to pretend it doesn’t exist is just false. All of these games took immense resources, even the port isn’t just a snap of the fingers.

@Dragnoran everyone doubted the Switch. If his initial opinion affected anything at all (which I don’t believe that it did), it would have been the Let’s Go/Go communication features. Maybe.

I just hope they don't forget to put in half the Pokémon into the game. What a mistake that would be!

Pokemon Gun is happening guys

Hmmm, dont know what too think of this.

Placing my best on Pokemon Snap 2!!! It's the closest Pokemon has officially ever gotten to an FPS!

@Trikeboy I haven't seen any Genger shots, but the Blastoise, Ho-Oh and the few others that I've seen looked really good

@commentlife "Have you played Let’s Go"

I didn't buy it, but I loaned the game from a friend and completed the dex. It was uninteresting, the visuals were bland and the performance was dreadful. I did like the 'dress up Pikachu' aspect and the Pokéball controller (despite its pants-on-head control scheme), I liked actually throwing Pokéballs (which, for the record, isn't coming back in SS because, uh, ???), I liked being able to ride on different Pokémon, and some other stuff, but overall it just wasn't a very interesting game.

"All of these games took immense resources"

For Pokkén, sure, the Wii U had a completely different architecture - but at least they could keep all of the assets. For Let's Go, they reused which assets they could from the 3DS (all Pokémon wireframes, for example), and they already had most of the story. The overall gameplay mechanics, although very similar to Pokémon Go, are indeed new and did require significant time in development. However, Pokémon Quest didn't really require a lot of dev time at all. It was already a game built for ARM architecture devices, all they did was hastily slap some physical button compatibility on it, didn't even test said compatibility, and put it on the eShop. I was under the impression Quest was a third party game, but apparently it was made by Game Freak. Oh boy.

@nintendoknife oh geez, that was Game Freak? haha. I actually didn’t know that. Oof.

@commentlife
I think Pokemon Quest is the first and only Pokemon spin-off Gamefreak has ever made.

They also gave away the development of Quest to Tencent for its Chinese localization, so that spin-off pretty much isn't there's anymore.

@MarioFan02 That would be the death of Nintendo. And at that point I say piracy is fair game. No respect for Tencent whatsoever.

Also agreed, the problem certainly is not Chinese people. I have nothing against ordinary Chinese people. It's the Chinese government and business culture I don't trust or respect.

@Heavyarms55 Indeed. Nintendo needs to watch their back with Tencent.

And, look, I have no problem with Chinese business that simply focus on putting out product. Lenovo is one business - they make great computers, one which I'm using right now. Geely, owners of Volvo, is another one - the brand is now alive and kicking, and they've pretty much let Volvo do what it wants so long as the money keeps rolling in.

Tencent, however, is far more nefarious. They've bought up stakes in nearly every third party under the sun - ActiBlizz, Ubisoft, Epic, etc. They seem to have a knack for muscling their way into other companies' business, and while they haven't been very active, they've certainly got enough cash to make waves if they need to. (They're also a major Hollywood financer, so make of that what you will.)

I'm fine with Nintendo co-operating with Tencent - especially if it's to get the Switch in China - but it should be kept to a minimum. Because Tencent - like most massive conglomerates - probably wouldn't just stop with a minority stake.

@MarioFan02 I'm not in crowd suggesting that China is a evil mastermind using Chinese businesses to take over the world, like some people say about certain other Chinese companies (like a certain telecom company). But it is pretty well know that Chinese companies regularly do not respect IP rights. Further, like all businesses, aggressively try to expand, however unlike all businesses, they are subject to Chinese government oversight. The Chinese government no doubt knows just how much influence they can wield with their corporations. America does the same thing and I distrust them for the same reason. The difference is only the direction. In America companies influence and control the government, in China, the government influences and controls the business. But the end result is abuse of the public.

@MarioFan02 I think non-Japanese companies are blocked from buying Japanese ones by law so it's very unlikely. The most they can do is form an alliance like Renault and Nissan.

When Pokemon meets 1984.

I legit don't believe that any of the manic foaming in the mouth "fans" who are pretending to be angry at Game Freak were ever really fans to begin with.

They just want to try and stump pokemons success as much as possible.

I would also like to know where the rumors of the fake pro switch came from like 2 days after Nintendo announced the Lite...

People were holding off on the Switch because of rumors of a slimmer model for months... (nearly a year actually) then when Nintendo finally confirms the rumors (almost by force as it was effecting sales)... new rumors started out of nowhere...

Then this bs with Pokemon... like any real fan actually cares about genuinely catching everyone of them... most get bored after getting the first 200...

And yet we could never get COD on 3DS,and very likely won't on Switch either. Because supporting popular systems makes too much sense for American studios... 🙄

Do we need another Pokémon mobile game? No.
Do we need spin-offs on the Switch? Yes.(please.)
Do we need high-quality animations for SnS because OMG it looks horrible and GF sucks and we hate Pokémon now because the national dex is gone and the animations look the same and they are all lying to us and we should riot saying #bringbacknationaldex and GF is corrupted and SnS sucks and—
Wait, what was this article about, again? Funny how you can’t swing a cat in the Pokémon community without hitting somebody who’s gonna complain about... you know. You can’t even mention Pokémon without triggering the oh-so-loyal ‘fanbase’. Dang, these people can’t accept anything they’re told. Always so quick to argue. Sad, that the Pokémon community is making the problem seem bigger than it actually is. And now we, not GF, have ruined a perfectly good title with our ‘criticism’ (read: active complaints).

Yes, I know that this article was about the stupid Pokémon mobile announcement. But too many people down here are complaining about SnS, which is
1) off topic and
2) plain stupid. Not reasonable. It isn’t a big problem.