Amazon Launches Pokémon Channel For TV Shows And Movies

Why can’t any streaming service just offer the entire series?

'Fill your boots.'
That's what she said.

@thesilverbrick That's what I'm saying. No one seems to have all of the seasons, or am I just missing something? Not only that but they are asking as to pay even more for this? Seriously?

This is why people pirate junk. Not that I support it but I at least understand why they do it. There's few options that has everything you want in one spot.

@thesilverbrick My best guess is because they don't want you to binge watch it so you subscribe for more than a month. Regardless of the reason, it is annoying not to have all seasons of a series when you pay for a service.

So Nintendo fanboys are you enjoying droughts right now. Its January and no new games came out. The Xbox one and Ps4 getting two huge games Dragonball figtherz and Monster hunter world.

I already pay Amazon a gajillion dollars, I know 3 bucks is small, but no thanks. No more money from me.

@therealgamer
Nope. There's been plenty to play. Thank you though. Maybe now that you got that out of the way you can go play all those awesome games on XBOX and PlayStation.

Why why I pay $3 a month on top of my existing subscription? Screw that

Will this channel be the very best it ever was?

@therealgamer - Pokemon TV, the perfect topic to announce some sort of month of non-release since it will most likely be the only evidence they'll have for a bit.

@therealgamer No drought for me. I have a list of 15+ games that I want to get, not including the many, many hours I still have in Skyrim, Mario Odyssey, Mario and Rabbids, Pokemon Moon, and Crystal this week. I also have no interest in either of those 2 games you mentioned so that wouldn't quench any drought in my mind

@therealgamer I have to say, my favorite parts of your sad attempts at trolling are your atrocious spelling and grammatical errors. Based on what I’ve seen in your post history, you evidently must be some sort of insecure elementary school student who has not yet quite grasped the English language. Try harder.

I think if you plan on watching it all in a month or two the 3 bucks isn’t bad. 6 bucks is less than even a single dvd of the films/tv series. This can’t be looked at as a long term subscription imho.

So you have to pay for prime, and then pay again for the Pokémon channel? On top of that they can't even have a sensible sequence of seasons, such as 1-10, without a big gap in the middle? Hard pass.

@therealgamer and what age are you son?

@therealgamer So what? Instead of calling it a drought I prefer to see it as a break. I got tons of games to work through so I'm good for at least until the end of the year.

And yet TPCi still haven't done any effort to get their movie rights back from Miramax. What's taking them so long?

@therealgamer your name is a misnomer. A real gamer would gaming, and celebrating the good points of our chosen hobby with your fellow gamers. Instead you attempt to troll others for having the audacity to choose a different system than you. Enjoy your narrow view of the world.

@thesilverbrick The problem is actually licensing. Someone other than Amazon as the license for Seasons 6-9 and are either not willing to give it up or asking to much to give them up.

Does Pokémon TV not have everything on it already and for free?

I know here in the state's, Disney has broadcasting rights for Sun and Moon on Disney XD and every prior season on their Disney Now app. I use my In law's cable login for the app. Not sure how that translates anywhere else Disney XD is available. But if you have that as an option wherever you live, I'd say use a friend or family members cable subscription login on the app to get your Pokemon fix

@Michael_Caboose No. It has about 10 or.so episodes per season and a handful of movies (as well as the Origin shorts)

@therealgamer
"So Nintendo fanboys are you enjoying droughts right now. Its January and no new games came out. The Xbox one and Ps4 getting two huge games Dragonball figtherz and Monster hunter world."

Why should we worry about lack of game releases during January 2018 ?
We have a lot of Switch games from year 2017 before, still take times to finish them all while waiting for upcoming games during year 2018.
And so what with those Dragonball and MH World ?
Switch will kick ps4 butt again.

I've watched almost the entire series on Pokemon TV (after watching the original series on Netflix). You just have to be patient, and try not to watch all 5 episodes at once.

I’ll stick with the free Pokémon TV app. Has tons of episodes and movies and it’s 100% free

Back to the topic at hand since someone derailed it with a dumb comment that everyone is feeding into....including myself now!

Anyways, I find it ridiculous that Amazon is going to charge me an additional $3 on top of my annual subscription to Prime. On top of that, you don't get the entire series. On top of that, they aren't starting with season #1!!!!

Doesn't Netflix have Pokemon too?

I'll pass. It would have been tempting if there wasn't an additional fee on top of the Prime subscription fee. Also, missing episodes are a pain.

Oh, got too excited, thought We'd get Amazon as an app on Switch. My fault.

want this as i’ve only watched the indigo series on netflix and wanna watch the rest, in order. $3/mo. isn’t bad but they really should just have all of it. also would i be able to watch this thru my appleTV? there’s a prime app now for it finally so would it run thru that or does it need a separate app or is it only available on computers?

12 year old me would have loved this.

@therealgamer That’s adorable that you don’t realize I already have a massive Switch catalog that’s going to last me at least several months.

I guess I do feel bad for some of those gamers on the other consoles though who apparently have so little to play right now that they have nothing to do except troll the Nintendolife comments while they wait for Dragonball FighterZ and Monster Hunter World to come out. Here’s to hoping to more games for those gamers in the near future!

Guys, you are feeling the troll. Stop feeding the troll.

Posting a "Do Not Feed the Troll" sign in front of the cage.

Amazon is out of control and will eventually take over retail and digital avenues if we allow it. They are just getting greedy now they want more money on top of a Prime subscription for this.

On a side note - anyone who games on the Xbox they announced that Game Pass will now include all Microsoft Studio games at launch. Gamers rejoice!

Shame its not on Netflix. I cant afford all these subscriptions. Switch games must be bought instead

Incomplete Volumes on a streaming service? Lol what is this the early 90s? $3 is expensive for a specific breadcrumbs-esque anime , when complete Pokemon season 1 was on Netflix. You lost a sale, Amazon.

@therealgamer Yes your right and in feb they have shadow of the colossus remake on ps4. Where as we get a port. Not sure about dragonball fighter as i got arms recently. And not into monster hunter at all. And then there is no ni kuni 2 in march. Where as we have no good games for march yet i don't think. I know its only the start of the year but why should only the end of year be brillant for nintendo fans (well i hope) lol.

That's pretty lame that you need to subscribe to it for $3 a month. That's not worth it at all unless you desperately want to watch the specific seasons they have. I already pay for Prime video so if you want me to pay extra for it I'd expect access to the entire series.

Just my two cents, though.

@MartyFlanMJFan Apparently he joined this site 6 years ago, so i’d say he’s at least 12 years old?

Wait, there is a 3 dollar fee even if you have prime? That's lame.

Amazon wants $80 CAD a year for prime and an additional $6 CAD (around that ballpark) monthly just for stuff they could have easily put on their Prime streaming service. Add on that they have shoddy customer service and yeah, they won't be getting any more money from me, let alone for Prime. I could go on but eh. For people who feel differently though, I guess you got a decent way to watch the Pokemon anime and movies

@Kalmaro Its the same in Japan, you'll have to sub to several streaming services in order to what a good chunk of it (Not sure if all).

But yeah, they want your membership for a good while. But there can be reasons like season 1 for example just got a blu ray release so they'll want you to go pick that up before giving it away for peanuts again. XY's not quite completely on DVD yet in the US (1 set to go) so again there's that, movies look to be random (Though I think Miramax still has distribution rights to movies 4 to 7, so whether those will be up only time will tell.).

Me: Yes, but does it come with subtit-
Amazon: No
Me: Of course not.

@Tanooki-Time gosh, what are they gonna be like as a teenager?! Lol

@therealgamer not sure what that has to do with the pokemon anime or amazon. but, okay .

@Michael_Caboose Nope. Pokémon TV is even worse! They only have like 10-12 episodes of each season available each time.

So right now in Pokémon TV you can only watch episodes 27 til 36 from Season 20 ( Sun and Moon ).

Really frustrating!

I would love to buy the series on DVD and Bluray, but you can't find anything in Region 2, only Region 1 or 4 encoding.

We’re 40ish comments in and no one has made a Pokémon Channel (Gamecube) joke yet?