Topic: Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee!

That's more or less how I treat most rumors these days. They'll only get more feverish until E3. It's interesting to discuss these things (or to watch them discussed, as I've been doing with a lot of this thread), but a rumor is just that until proven otherwise.

I do think the Pikachu/Eevee-only split is an odd concept. Pikachu would be at a disadvantage evolution-wise, though I suppose the Cosplay Pikachu forms could be given their own full-scale typing. Even with that idea, I doubt it would work.

I saw Tons of Fake Pokemon for Switch on Youtube.
They looked official, but still FAKE.

• I might be wrong. but i don't think i heard any news sites saying they heard sources to back this up, unlike the Star Fox one. but, than again it could still be revealed, even if X Site didn't hear sources about Y game.
• Eurogamer, has not even reported this yet (besides eurogamer.pt) you think they would have reported this already after the leaked started being huge. (check the main site and the switch news, nothing has appear year.)
  although, im just speculating at this point

@shadow-wolf I see what you mean by just accepting it, I'll still probably end up liking these games a lot as I'm a huge fan of the franchise, but as long as they change Kanto up a good bit I wouldn't have an issue with it personally. I've seen rumors about the game apparently taking place in a futuristic Kanto, where people like Red and Blue are that of legends. If it ends up being like this I would be perfectly fine with it, but again, they just need to make it feel fresh and not the same thing for the 7th time in a row.

Maybe they chose Pikachu and Eevee because:
1- They are the most popular non-legendary, non-starter Pokemon in gen 1
2- The story might have something to do with the Manga. In it, team Rocket (I think) is studying Eevee's mysterious ability to evolve into different Pokemon types. This could expand the lore and possibly add new mechanics.

I wonder if it’s more a tie in with the we movie coming out this year. The secondary protagonist in the trailers has an eevee and obviously there’s ash’s Pikachu.

I think the movie is set in the Sevii/Orange islands which would tie in with the rumours that the game is going to be Kanto with island hopping as the Sevii islands were just next to Kanto and part of the last gen 1 remake.

Domain names for these games have been registered which increases the probability of the rumour being real.

@MarcelRguez https://twitter.com/SerebiiNet/status/996698977822265346

https://nintendoeverything.com/rumor-domains-registered-for-p...

It's actually the same company that registers for the pokemon.com / nintendo.com / nintendoswitch.com apparently.

@MarcelRguez Yeah, that's still very possible, unless someone somehow goes through CDC corp to get this link to make it sound legit...?

Feels weird that someone might be doing that, but it's not impossible either.

I would say those domain names are conformation enough. See you at the Pokémon Direct in a week or two!

@MarcelRguez Yeah, now time to wait for official announcement. Hopefully will be out before this week is done.

About the Eevee vs. Pikachu evolution advantage for the Eevee: could it be that Pikachu comes with a bunch of new evolutions? E.g. dark/-, psychic/-, ghost/- and fairy/electric (etc.)?

@toiletduck Knowing GameFreak, it's more likely that neither is able to evolve

Far as I remember, wasn't Sun/Moon announced the day after the domain names were registered?
Could be we're getting an announcement real soon.

The Direct itself was 26-Feb, with the trademarks starting to do the rounds the day before, but it could be that they were registered the day before that on the 24-Feb. I'm thinking an announcement of a Direct will happen today for Friday, which follows the same Wednesday announce Friday reveal of Sun/Moon.

@DarkRula I hope so, these rumors have been crazy.

Does anyone still think these are fake?

Things are getting real quick. If the domain names are the real deal, then like others have said we are probably getting the announcement really soon. Sooner than I would normally expected, maybe this Friday? I'm still thinking next week like Octane.

I wouldn't doubt if was Nintendo pulling shenanigans to save those domain for themselves due to the leaks. This won't be real until I see it. I'm having fun speculating though!

@DarthNocturnal Basically the main complaints are: NOT KANTO AGAIN, and Pokemon Go is trash and taking anything from it will make this game trash! Basically overreactions like every new Pokemon game. I understand Kanto is kind of tired now, but it isn't terrible. And with the short development time it is probably the best choice to redo/re-imagine. The whole pokemon go fear is basically taken from one line of the leak, which is unfounded because people are acting like this game will be Pokemon Go 2, which it won't.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone saw the rumours of the new game names and decided to register the domains to keep them hostage in hopes they can sell them onto Nintendo later.

@TheTetrisGuy The domains were the point where I started to believe it was real.