Pokémon Presents August 2023: Every Announcement, Full Livestream

I honestly just wanted DLC news but nothing about it made me want to get it. And what the actual frick did they do to my boy Raikou?

I'm happy about TCG in NSO (it's one of my fav games of that console) and the DLC looks really nice and I'm crossing fingers it runs OK.
But...
As someone who doesn't like phone games, late presents feel absolutely barren. I feel like phone games have eaten almost every other spin-off.

@Olrun I feel this too
I want the mainline games too cook in the oven but i'll never say no to spin-offs not made by GameFreak. But these apps are clearly much more profitable and less effort and that makes me sad.

They’ve gotten so complacent. Regardless of what they do, the franchise sells so why bother?

I found the Pokemon Presents ok, the main problem was pacing. All that esports (Worlds) and mobile stuff really dragged on too long. Would've been better having:

• Start with Detective Pikachu Returns
• Announce the NSO shadow drops
• End with the Scarlet/Violet stuff

Still I did like the Detective Pikachu Returns, NSO and Scarlet/Violet stuff. It's sad though that Mario Party 3 is still missing when it was announced almost a year ago.

WHY are there so many Pokemon Directs?

Once a year should be fine.

Tantrum Sleep is me to a T.

Eh, I wasn't really expecting too much anyway. Normally these things cover what is already known with maybe a curveball or two. Shame this wasn't one of those times.

Hopefully the lack of news means that they are actually trying on their next mainline game, but I won't get my hopes up

Even though no new game has been announced, I personally am relieved that there is no pressure anymore that a new game is on the way and it supports the next game to have more development time as it should.

@Nintendencies Seriously, I get a horrible cringe when people keep attacking Game Freak as if they're the """only""" in the franchise problem, seriously, that's foolishness...

A whole load of nothing.

Thanks, Pokémon Company. 👌Won't need to spend my money on anything Pokémon related for a while yet.

They desperately need to hire an editor for these things. You could've conveyed all that same info in like a quarter of the time, there's just so much useless dawdling in these things.

Also I highly doubt like 99.9% of the fanbase remotely cares about the World Championships so opening with going on and on and on and on and on about it is just a pointless waste of time.

Best news for me was TCG on NSO. Stadium 2 is also cool but I think I have more fond memories of the first. Plus, with some of the features nerfed out it’s kind of hard to feel fully excited. Still I’m happy for their release though!
Part of me is just relieved that we’re past these Pokémon N64 releases so we can finally move on to other confined N64 releases, like Excitebike (and hopefully Castlevania 64 for spooky season!!)

Wake me when they announce another New Pokémon Snap.

@SakuraHaruka
I said I wanted more spin-offs which GF are very rarely responsible for, that is just a fact, they've always just focused on the mainline games and let third parties take the reigns on spin-off titles. What's wrong with that? I just miss the days where we had lots of experimental titles like the TCG, snap, dash and mystery dungeon. I would give anything for a mix of Pokémon/farm sim for example, and the commentor I replied too feels this way too.

Im well aware that TPC as a whole are more to blame for the series' shortcomings than the Devs themselves, they are the ones pushing the mobile apps and applying constant crunch, not GF. Please read my comment correctly before you start making assumptions and implying I am a fool.

I enjoyed scarlet and violet, it's flawed yes but it was just pure fun to play, the stories and character design were fantastic but nothing shown in the presentation got me excited for the DLC whatsoever.

@Nintendencies
Believe me, I read your comment several times and no matter how many times I read it, I couldn't find anything else, and until I read it very, very carefully, I understood you.
an apology, I'm so sorry, my mind really blocked me very horrible...

I went in with tempered expectations and I'm glad I did because outside of the NSO games and the DLC, this was a pretty underwhelming presentation.

This absolutely didn't need to be 35 minutes long. They could have easily condensed it down to like 20 minutes and still got all of the information out without all the padding.

Pokken should be included again in Pokemon World Championships ....

the more i think about this presents the more it makes me laugh i cant believe they had the balls to have NOTHING to show and make people wake up at 6 in the morning its incredible what we let them get away with this

Another Presents goes by with no Pokémon Pinball for Switch, it's wide screen is crying out for a remake of this often forgotten about game

RIP the hopes of a Mystery Dungeon Sky remake coming out soon

My expectations were low for the presentation, but holy moly

I was hoping they would announce a Scarlett/Violett version with the DLC on the cart like they did wit Sword/Shield.

I'm so jealous of the Yokohama merch! I wish you could order at least the towel with the Yokohama logo online

@Axecon Same. I’m still holding on hope for a Mystery Dungeon Explorers DX to get announced. That or just a new Pokémon Mystery Dungeon entirely.

Can't wait for the ending of the new show to be posted on Nintenolife 8 months before the episodes release in the west

I feel like I had actually forgotten a lot of those spin off games like Masters, Unite, and Cafe even existed...

Wow, The Pokémon Company, almost 23 hours ago, reuploaded Pokémon SV DLC regular (4:07) trailer from Presents and Presents it self probably due they used fan made music and they don't want credit fans when they use they work...