Talking Point: Should The Pokémon Company Stick To Just One Pokémon Presents A Year?

Strong yes. They should also cut out about half of their pipeline and make great games again. Hire some graphics people and artists. Take a few more breaks.

The constant smiles on that video are infectious!!!

Yes. Especially if the calibre and quality of "announcements" could easily be provided via social media post, or email newsletter.

The phrase "this could have been an email!" has been used to describe this presentation, and it fits.

YES!

Too many and it makes the franchise stale and annoying.

It was so boring, I did actual work during it!

Unless you are the hardest of hardcore Pokémon fans these shows are more oft disappointing than not.

They should really be limited to 2 shows per year. 1st and 2nd half years news for Pokémon stuff.

I loved this Pokemon Presents! I thought it was up there with the best ones so far, with highlights like Yokohama, Paldean Winds, Hidden Treasure, Nemona, Detective Pikachu, Pokemon Cafe (I actually enjoy it!), and TCG+Stadium2 dual release.

I miss the old days where we got good Pokemon games just for the consoles and that was it.

I can’t believe I interrupted my Pokémon Sleep gameplay session for this…

They need to realize that the audience for these presentations consists of people interested in core series games or non-mobile based spinoffs. If they had trimmed out the mobile game stuff, in-person events, animation stuff, and focused solely on Detective Pikachu Returns and SV DLC, it would’ve elevated the presentation to “it was meh” status rather than the “what a waste of time” status it currently has.

It depends, if there is a brand new gen it would make sense to make on in february and a second one at a later date.

But if there's nothing interesting to show they shouldn't do one. Todays Present could easily be a bunch of tweets

LOL i found it cool. definitely made me wish I was going to the Pokemon WC in Japan. Then again I'm not much of a Pokemon person so I didn't really care going in.

Auto win for me because……

Hitmonlee!!
Also the mewtwo v mew event looks cool.
1 quibble tho. The raikou lookalike will NOT be a raikou evolution. It will be more akin to whatever walking wake is to suicune.
The legendary beasts do NOT evolve!

They should go back to focusing on fixing their game.
I jest, I know they never will.

@Fizza Two 40-45 minute shows, with little to no filler would be more than enough to talk about what's coming out soon and later in the respective halves of the year.

It's not like Nintendo where they have to juggle dozens upon dozens of 1st and 3rd party games/events throughout the year. So 2 shows would definitely work.

They coulda just dropped all this on twitter and had a couple YouTube videos drop along with it.

Also, they should have Pokémon Presents only when they have an ample amount of substantial content. This year we probably didn’t need any. However, some years, one or even two could be warranted depending on what’s coming out.

It was largely the same as the last one, just with a bit more detail on Detective Pikachu and the SV DLC.

I'm just not a fan of Pokémon Presents in it's current form where you have to sit through 20-25 minutes of gacha game event announcements to actually get to the good stuff. I'd rather they just release everything as separate trailers on YouTube.

I'll be the contraband and say there's no issue with multiple presentations, but this wasn't at all acceptable as something being bigged up. Everything revealed today was part of a title or series that had already been announced, with every game having a very similar presentation to the other one (we already knew about Paldean Winds, and the Path to the Peak was covered earlier in the year when they announced multiple new Pokémon short-form series). Its a complete joke that 2 minutes was given to the only new title (Detective Pikachu), 20 to the mobile games (most of which heavily rely on microtransactions) and the remainder dedicated to a 5-minute ScarVi DLC trailer, followed by an 8-minute overview of that same trailer (most of which was dedicated for a DLC that won't be out for months, and too little on the one out next month). In an era where there are multiple titles expected to at least be acknowledged (Mystery Dungeon, Snap 3, a new Legends game that adapts any region - and can even incorporate the Paradox Pokémon in unique ways than ScarVi), getting the same old drivel is tiring and pathetic.

I'm with Alex and his video on this one. lol

worst Pokemon Presents ever, cant believe i wasted 35 minutes of my life in this crap, i came expecting the worse, and got disapoited even so, Pokemon Company used Yamn it super effective!

One is enough, and if they don't have anything that's absolutely fine they don't need to make one at all. Social media/youtube would be fine for announcing app/anime stuff.

Two a year is fine. People just need to lower their expectations.

Pokémon just isn’t going to have some internet breaking announcement every time. However, that doesn’t mean they don’t have plenty of projects to highlight, so two presents a year gives them the chance to do that.

Imo, it seemed obvious that this presents was primarily to hype the DLC. If you expected anything more than that, you just set yourself up for disappointment.

the last two Pokemon Presents could be resulmed to a e-mail or a bunch of tweets, no one want to wake early and see a bunch of unless mobile crap, get throw at you, cut this unless filler and focus on what everyone was waiting to see in this presentation(information on Detective Pikachu Return and the DLC of Pokemon Scarlet/Violet), no one cares if you can play with Nemona or character X in that unless mobile crap game.

I don't see why more than one a year would be a problem. At the end of the day, this comes down to a number of factors: how TPC views Pokémon, and where you fall as a fan of the franchise in general.

I mean, if you are a Pokémon fan that consumes almost all of the merchandise or media it has to offer, then these Presents will work for you.

If you are only a fan of Pokémon mainline console games, then these Presents with no huge announcements will probably turn out disappointing. As I alluded to before, TPC has a broader scope of Pokémon as a franchise and that's obviously a disconnect for many of us who only consume the video game aspect of it. More specifically, the mainline games and certain spinoffs.

Just too little of interest in today's presentation for me. Like It needed a big brand new announcement to justify itself. We knew about most things before at best It gave them dates.

I'd just stop doing them. The random five minute Youtube drops every once in awhile were so much more palatable than these bloated rambling ego trips are.

Honestly while they're a lot more substantive really wouldn't mind the same with the Directs. Wish they did more of just uploading those as videos instead of livestreaming them, makes them so much faster and less annoying to get through. Those pandemic partner Directs were easy to knock out in like five minutes.

Gotta be honest. Apart from Gen 1, I like a few legendary Pokemon here and there, and the odd regular one like Salazzle, but that's it. They need to double down on the quality of gameplay and not the quantity of products.

Also, they should really release a maximum of one new generation every 7 years. That would give them time to flesh out characterization and love for what they do have instead trying to make it look like they have new stuff that has a chance of being better than their old stuff.

Also, Alex looked so bored in that video 😂

So, my thought is they should have these Pokémon Presents streams specifically to host their smaller announcements, and only showcase content related to their console games during Nintendo Directs. That way anyone who's actually interested in their other content can still look forward to Pokémon Presents, and people who are only interested in the mainline titles don't have to wake up at 6:00 a.m. to watch a stream they won't even enjoy

@dartmonkey
You mean my comments about Raikou?
I’m surprised such mistakes are made in these articles. I guess it could have just been an oversight

Edit. Whoops. You have staff credentials! I understand now. Sorry, not meant to cause offence.

Didn't even watch this one personally. I find there's never been much reason to watch them outside of the Pokemon Day Presents, in which they typically unveil the next main series game.

Pokémon Presents is really only suitable as an annual event. All other marketing should just be allocated to Nintendo, who actually has a reason to do at least 2-3 major Nintendo Directs every year.

It would be neat if it Pokemon Presents was more strictly on Pokemon Day, but I do know its tough to center everything around 1 day, when something might not be presentable months down the line.

On the other hand, this Presents was kinda dull. I wish there was more to be said for Detective Pikachu Returns, The Pokemon Concierge or upcoming Pokemon merch even. It didn’t need to be this package of trailers for game most people don’t even play for years. TPCI showing me ongoing Pokemon Cafe ReMix content does nothing for me, same with Masters or Sleep.

But I don’t know. Maybe this semi-annualization is supposed to include purposely dull presentations, because it’ll be more exciting to watch a worthwhile one whenever that is.

They really could do with speeding up these presentations. They were padded with so much unnecessary time and slow pacing. They need to be more snappy and right to the point, like Nintendo Direct presentations.

I would have thought the sensible answer would be to have a presents when there is something to...er...present?

Pokemon really doesn't need two presents every year and the same goes for Nintendo they don't need to have three Directs ever year they should cut down

I was just thinking earlier that The Pokemon Company do a really good job of making Pokémon seem boring in these directs.

I don't mind two directs a year but I'd definitely prefer if they cut the size of them in half if they're not going to have much interesting in them.

Alex’s video is the best part of this event. You sir are a legend

Pokemon is getting boring as can be. Sad to see such a monster franchise (har har) go down like a led zeppelin.

They could try making a decent mainline game instead of all these stupid little presents.

Nah, smucks still lined up to buy it.

Even one a year feels much, if all the combined ones in a year still don't show much exciting stuff.

Really though, it should just be kept in a Nintendo Direct rather than having its own presentation. That way you'll more than likely have good stuff coming after the mobile stuff to wash your palette with.

I think I'll just skip the next pokémon presentation altogether and just read up on what's announced instead. They really just... don't do it anymore for me. Sad.

Oh well. Plenty of other games to still look forward to!

The larger issue is the amount of content they're providing isn't quite enough for a dedicated livestream. They usually only have 1 or 2 new things to show and then pad it out with announcements for mobile games that we already know about or other multimedia things and we just don't care. Also doesn't help that this year we don't have an actual new game, we have DLC. They just don't have the quantity to justify having a long 30 minute presentation, this kind of stuff feels like it should just be included in a general Direct instead of needing a separate Presents.

All that information was practically already known minus release dates and some special animation shorts. Mobile game announcements really should stay fixed to their own social media accounts and Twitter.

I was really hoping for a brand new announcement or just anything different news-wise but I'm not surprised by what we got. Part of it might also be restricted to what Nintendo's doing with the new console so that's why today's announcements felt so underwhelming.

Look, I don't care much about anything that isn't the main games. They're the main driving force of the franchise after all. (I'd love to see a Pokken sequel announced one day though)

What I think I really wish for these presentations is for the people from Game Freak themselves to actually appear there and talk to us about what they're doing. I mean, when was the last time they directly spoke to the viewers in a video presentation? Very likely during the last Pokémon Direct ever in January 2020.

Just save Pokemon presents for the next main game. Then again I'm no longer the target audience. Maybe 12 year olds appreciate it.

Most of the mobile stuff could be twitter posts and the Scarlet/Violet DLC could have just been a standalone trailer.

I personally expected as much from this showcase, so I'm not too disappointed, but the expected quality shouldn't be that low to begin with.

Honestly, the presentation was exactly what I expected. My prediction: trash mobile app anouncements, TCG on NSO due to the leak, and Scarlet/Violet news. That's what we got, excluding the 15 or so animated serieses. So, I give the Pokemon Presents a 5/10. Perfectly average.

The only problem is people who expect a company that makes less then 10% of it's money from console games to spend 90% of it's time talking about console games.

Or maybe stop making up fake rumors to ryle up dumb fans and then get mad that your lie wasn't real.

I thought the Pokémon Presents was good, unlike most others. It could be much more condensed, and some news they could’ve left out, like the Pokémon Sleep stuff. Detective Pikachu Returns looks really good, and I will most likely get it launch. The visuals are no Metroid Prime Remastered, but they are so much better than 3DS visuals! The Teal Mask…I didn’t like any of what they showed but The Indigo Disk looked SPECTACULAR! I might wait to get it in the Winter when that releases. Mewtwo news are always welcome too

So I voted that this presentation was a 7. Personally I thought it was good because I generally liked each of the announcements they did even if I don’t play the games. Tatsugiri is coming to Cafè? Cool it looks adorable even if I don’t play the game. I think people get way too excited for these things in the sense they expect them to drop something on the level of like a FFVII Remake internet shattering thing like”DID YOU SEE THAT POKÉMON PRESENTS.” Like at most I was expecting news on the next game but in all honesty I was kidding myself it’s way too early for that. That’s probably next February irregardless of what kind of game it is and the only way they don’t reveal that is if it’d for switch 2 and they gotta hold back on account of Nintendo not revealing it. I thought maybe this Presents had a little too much anime in the sense it feels they have like 10 web mini series things going at once. Also it feels like they’re pushing Paldea way harder then any other regions. The only other things I wanna say on the topic is this: 1. I don’t think The Pokemon Company should do two of these outside of a new mainline game reveal where the initial reveal is February. When that occurs yeah they can do 2 like with scarlet and violet and be like look in the second one we have terastralizing and Team Star. They could have done that with the DLC but honestly the little they’re showing of both of them gives me this vibe that like these DLCs are gonna be super short. And that brings me to 2. The only thing that really disappointed me was no date for DLC2. I think they should have just given you the dates for both and then you know when to expect all things Pokemon. I do hope it comes out this year tho and we’re not left with a weird straddle of 2024: Half of a DLC, a new mainline duo/legends sequel or whatever, any spin-offs they wanna put out next year too.

Love the clip of Alex watching the show

Back to school after a party night 😂