
Earlier today, there was a sizable leak detailing a partnership between Starbucks and Niantic in order to promote a massive impending update for Pokémon GO. There's plenty of speculation that the aforementioned update will be adding in the Pokémon from the Johto region Pokédex, and a recent announcement seems to be fanning this flame.
Niantic and Sprint have just announced that they'll be making a special announcement tomorrow morning at 8:30 PST/4:30 UK. John Hanke and Marcelo Claure – the CEOs of Niantic and Sprint – will be in attendance, though the content of the conference is still under wraps. Given all the leaks, it seems a pretty safe bet this'll be the official unveiling of the Starbucks partnership and Gen 2 Pokémon, but we'll just have to wait and see.
What do you think? Will we be surprised by tomorrow's announcement? Do you think legendaries might be included? Drop us a comment in the section below.
[source venturebeat.com]
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Predictions/hopes:
Gen 2
Apple watch app finally
Starbucks pokestops give more items or rare Pokemon spawns
Heck, maybe even spawning the legendaries!!
As for sprint: all sprint phones obtain Zapdos (later announcements that Verizon gets moltres and AT&T gets Articuno) ;P
I'm ok with Gen II coming. I have 5 left to get to complete the 'what I can get in Europe' dex, which involves sizeable distances to be walked for Kabutops, so an additional 100 or so will be welcome!
Hopefully Sprint customers don't get any Go exclusives. That would just be annoying for anyone not on Sprint, as well as people in countries that don't have Sprint.
It's a whole new world we live in, but ya still gotta catch 'em all and be the best that you can be...
So an out of context mention of new Pokemon now means that the Starbucks promotion is related to a "massive impending update"? I think you're getting completely carried away with this.
Considering that there is no mention of Starbucks having anything to do with this press conference, the chances of the two being related are highly unlikely... it's probably just announcing that Sprint will be giving free data for Pokemon GO... other companies have already done it on a temporary basis, but this'll probably be permanent.
I think Gen 2's very likely though who would wanna go out there and catch Pokemon during winter times? Even without snow it's just too frosty for my tastes. I'd rather stay in the warmth that is Alola.
Hopefully Gen II is announced, then we can have a Delibird event just in time for Christmas.
Gen 2 monsters will probably be exclusive to Sprint for a month.
@GoldenGamer88 I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the entire Southern Hemisphere?
@Shinion Ugh, that theme song was the worst for getting stuck in your head.
Hope they give us a free starter!
Associating with Starbucks has shown Niantic's true colours.
I'd rather invest in slightly less evil schemes, thank you very much!
@GoldenGamer88
Hello from the sunny Southern Hemisphere!
@DragonEleven An announcement for free data? Why waste the time and resources? The game uses minimum data as it is. Or at least it that's the case for AT&T. Its the only app I can safely use over data without worrying about it gobbling it up
Still hoping for ability to submit locations for Stops/Gyms. :c
@RadioHedgeFund @Rexx Oh yeah, you do have summer right now! Sorry, I always forget. Tbh the idea of one half of a planet having summer whilst the other has winter has always occurred to me as quite surreal but I guess that's just the beauty of our planet.
@Joeynator3000 There is a way of doing that through Ingress. You can look it up... basically when a "portal" is registered in Ingress it pops up as a Pokéstop a couple of months later. This has been confirmed on a couple of occasions.
@UmbreonsPapa I wouldn't bother, he seems set to deny Gen 2 will ever happen to the point of posting the same overly negative comments on all Pokémon Go posts. While this announcement may not be Gen 2... it's obviously going to be more game related that "free data".
@DanteSolablood Yeah, years ago, they removed that feature.
@Joeynator3000 Odd, I saw someone confirm they did it on a YouTube video a month or two ago.
Well people told me they removed it...and the only other way was via hacking the game(s)
Soooo what was it??? I heard the only new pokemon they were referring to were shiny and male/female types...
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