Pokémon Go is coming this year, though The Pokémon Company, Nintendo and developer Niantic have largely stuck with fancy concept CG commercials to date. The realities of the reveal trailer's pitch and the app itself will, naturally, be different, but the core idea of augmented reality (AR) gaming to catch 'mon in the 'real world' has certainly excited many.
Now off-screen footage has emerged (via Eric F on YouTube) which shows a segment of Niantic's AR talk at SXSW - the high profile public event was effectively called off, but a talk clearly went ahead without being live streamed online.
As you can see below, the footage shows the basic process of seeing a grass-type Ivysaur over an actual grass background, before catching it by tossing Pokéballs; different environments will yield different 'mon. There's also a brief glance at the overworld, which looks heavily inspired by a Google Maps style.
There's been huge interest around the app so far - over one million views on this video alone and months of sustained traffic in Google searches about the game, for example. It certainly has the potential to be a huge success.
Do you like what you see in this brief glimpse?
[source eurogamer.net]
Comments 37
looks fun...but i wonder for how long. definitely worth trying out.
One of the legendaries has to be exclusive to Mount Everest.
Looks a bit underwhelming to me, although I did like the concept.
So there's no battling? Very disappointing..
@Luffymcduck lol agreed
It's a win win situation for GameFreak. Even if the game is not what us, gamers, want, I'm sure it'll be a huge success with kids around the world.. We might see new Pokemon fans in the near future.
@PowerStar Going by the reveal trailer, I'm pretty sure there'll be fighting.
@PowerStar You must have had a fun time at the Safari Zone trying to get that elusive Kangaskhan and dratini. lol
Looks awesome so far. I can imagine this game jumping straight to the top of the Android and IOS charts
You should definitely have kept that Master Ball for a different Pokémon lol
I sure as hell hope the battles are actual pokémon battles (with attacks, abilities, items, EV-s and IV-s), and not some dumbed-down version.
I'm not sure Pokemon battles are what this game is for. Keep in mind that Nintendo still wants to sell Pokemon games.
But how about this? This app will link to the Pokemon bank and we can transfer the caught Pokemon to our 3ds or NX games. Legendaries and special events would require multiple trainers to catch like the super bowl ad suggests. So we aren't just grabbing legendaries like rocks from the ground.
Sounds neat and in line with what has been said so far. The apps will bring consumers to the games and vice versa.
I'm excited to see how it turns out.
I know people are joking about where to put Pokemon, but after a week, people are going to be get very tired of having to leave their basements to go find the Pokemon. And with no battling, I'm unsure if this will hold people's attention. Though it's Pokemon, so it probably will.
Just hope Nintendo is smart enough to just let you buy the Pokemon at $1 a pop ($5 for legendaries) right from the get go. The lazy people that want to be the first to complete their dex will hand over thousands of dollars without a second thought.
I keep telling you people this game may end up disappointing you big time...lol
@Bali You are probably gonna be disappointed then. If they put the full battling experience in then that'd undermine the full games. I do imagine we'll have the basic battling with four moves and levels but not all the extra EV/IV stuff. The bigger focus here is gonna be to go exploring and "catch em all".
@XCWarrior That... is a terrible idea. They better not sell any Pokemon, that's not what the game is about. And the thing about people not wanting to leave home was said to death about Ingress (the game this is being derived from) and that game has a thriving community willing to traverse the globe just to capture a point.
Like UNSOLUTEDSALT said, I think they are going to integrate it with Pokemon Bank. In fact I remember hearing someone working on the game say once that they were looking into the possibility of doing just that. No guarantee of course but I con only see that working out well for them. I'd personally love to be able to send my Sylveon to my phone to use on the go, but I image that's less likely than having it be a one way trip from the Phone to the Bank. I like the idea of legendaries being an event thing, and it'd fit in with how Niantic does events for Ingress already so the groundwork for such a thing is there. I wouldn't be surprised if they had the regular Pokemon migrate seasonally so that you have to spend the whole year working on an area to see everything that can be there.
@PowerStar I thought this was to show off the catching and not tell everything about it... What made you think there was no battling?
It boggles me how people can lead themselves into believing they hold any power in assuming future mechanics based on a game heavily in development. Have any of these 'critics' seen a proper holographic program? Hololens comes to mind, and its reveals has been extraordinary. Conclusively, you are wrong to doubt something you know very little about. /endrant
On a positive note: this game/app will undoubtedly be revolutionary on 'some' level in society's progression into human-hologram interaction through reality augmentation and/or (eventually) projection.
For the record, when they revealed Pokémon GO, they said that you'd be able to catch Pokémon just by pressing the button on the GO Plus.
There will be battles in the game, but they won't be like the main games.
@DonSerrot Never heard of Ingress. I want Nintendo to continue to make money. So sell the Pokemon. Sell costumes for the Pokemon. Sell the abilty to get a better radar, color backgrounds, whatever. Make the mobile crowd PAY.
Not like I'm going to buy it, so they can microtransaction the hell out of it. And they need to, because Mitomo isn't going to make any money.
@XCWarrior Never thought I'd see the day where someone on NL actually hopes that Nintendo adds a pay-to-win feature on a mobile game.
@FriedSquid LOL, well I worry with every passing day that NX isn't anything super special compared to VR, and VR will overshadow NX, forcing Nintendo to make money elsewhere. And people will buy anything Pokemon.
And again, I'm not buying it. People haven't hesitate about buying what I feel is like $200 worth of Smash DLC, so why not about $1000 worth of Pokemon Go DLC?
Looks as to be expected so far. I just need confirmation of monetisation plans before I'm in. So many people I know are playing things like Clash of Clans and Clash Royale and they're all happy to drop a few pennies here and there so that they have the advantage of guarantee a win. And that's great for the devs. But I'm not happy to do that, I don't find that fun or rewarding.
@BlatentlyHeroic Haha, I remember how annoying it was to throw bait, and rocks and hope that the Pokemon wouldn't run away.
@XCWarrior That's an awful idea. If those pokemon can be uploaded to the Pokemon Bank it'll make Legendaries in the actual games more worthless than they already are.
@Detective_TeeJay Actually, with my idea, they'll be worth MORE. $5 more to be exact. It's about Nintendo making money, not the gameplay. Legendaries are banned in tourney, but people want them. Just a matter of how bad do you want them.
@XCWarrior Satan, is that you?
@Detective_TeeJay Hey now, let's reserve that kind of name calling for the creators of microtransactions and fee to pay and mobile gaming in general. Remember I didn't sell my soul to DeNa to start making mobile games, Nintendo did. I'm just trying to help them be profitable in this new frontier!
Not impressed and not interested at all.
People will probably die over this game.
They should have gotten an old man on stage to demonstrate catching a weedle. Then maybe I would have taken this more seriously.
I mean come on, who finds a Bulbasaur in the wild, let alone any of it's evolved forms?!
Hmmm, this is blowing my skirt up. Looks very dodgy. The advert was amazing this looks poor
@PinkSpider
Oh my, now upskirt seekers have a new excuse. I can't wait for people looking for a Cloyster.
And the best comment in the thread award goes to @Luffymcduck!
@Serebii
Shame they won't, then. It wouldn't be too hard to create a rank system, allowing users to eventually become Gym Leaders. It would be a cool addition. And if the games allowed NNID compatibility, thus granting access to the Pokémon Bank, that would fulfill their role as a way to introduce new fans to the Pokémon games even better.
@AlexSora89
Thank you. I am honored to receive this great award.
@Luffymcduck
I wonder how your avatar - as a character - might work, anyway. Maybe you're the black sheep of the McDuck clan and there's a fifty billion dollar bounty on your head, so Scrooge, wanting that money, forces Donald to join the navy (promising him half of said bounty), thus kicking off the events of DuckTales. Canon welding, yes!
As a little bonus, given my song in www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/03/heres_why_snes_vc_games_can_only_be_played_on_a_new_3ds got hardly noticed - let alone appreciated - here's a new one for the mash-up.
Life is like a hurricane,
be-yond - Grand - Line -
the Navy is after us, but
it's - all - just - fine -
as long as you're here
our good ol' Luffy!
One Piece! (Woo-hoo!)
We're after the great treasure called
One Piece! (With ducks!)
Tales of pirates chasing the great
One Piece!
D-d-danger, watch behind you!
The Government's out to find you!
What to do, just look for that huge
One Piece! (Woo-hoo!)
It's so huge, that even Scrooge, wants
One Piece! (Of that!)
Dead ducks tell no tales, 'cept for cool ones
like this! (One Piece!)
Don't give up ship and we will find that
One Piece! (Woo hoo!) BAM!
@AlexSora89
Hahaha, that was amazing. I also checked out your other song in that older news article.
@Luffymcduck
Hopefully you liked the other one, then!
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