The latest game to appear in the world-dominating Pokémon franchise isn't even out yet, but its popularity is already through the roof.
Pokémon Masters, the upcoming smartphone game which has players battling it out with famous trainers from the main series of games, has already secured a whopping five million preregistrations. The game is free-to-start, just like the hugely successful Pokémon GO, and is expected to launch on 29th August.
The game has already soft-launched on Android in some countries such as Singapore and Canada, so feel free to check it out early if you happen to have access to it already. For those of us who can't, it might be worth revisiting the presentation which released in June; it went over all of the key details of the title's gameplay and plenty of new screenshots were revealed.
We doubt any new game would live up to the success of Pokémon GO, but it'll be interesting to see how this one fares. Will you be giving it a go? Are you one of the five million already signed up? Tell us below.
[source twitter.com]
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"Are you one of the five million already signed up?"
My answer : NO!
I don't play mobile games.
I only play handhelds and consoles with physical media.
I pre-registered and I’m looking forward to this. Pokémon is a game I generally sink a lot of time in but this seems like something I can have fun playing in smaller sessions. Plus, I mean, more Pokémon is always a plus 👍🏼👌🏼
Nice if this game is successfull then thats just another reason for gamefreak becoming more demotivated and therefore lazy
Pre-registering doesn't doesn't a thing. I'll give it a go.
@Anti-Matter Calm down dear, it's only a mobile game
Not available for my country (The Netherlands) so I'm sadly affraid I will end up downloading a new apk every single time they update the game after release, I do that with Dragalia lost because the "EU" release ignores 90% of the EU countries.
This is what I hate about mobile, server based gaming while I can import a physical copy of a game for a console or make a foreign account for a digital one, it doesn't work that easy with smartphone games.
I'm one of those people that pre-registered, but I don't see myself playing it for long. It's cool to see all of the old trainers in 3D and in one game but that novelty won't last forever.
I hear so far it's been a micro transaction nightmare, but we'll see when it launches full since that's just based off what i've heard on soft launch.
Just gonna wait for launch. And even though I might play it, i’ll probably delete it. Just like every mobile game I owned.
I never liked Pokemon ever.
@Bunkerneath Oh no, the flashbacks, I hated those commercials.
You can already play it in some countries.
Been playing it for a couple of weeks. It's fun, not heavy on microtransactions. Definitely has potential to be big
I'm preregistered! Hoping the game will be like FE Heroes and be a fun little distraction between mainline titles that makes money the developers can funnel to bigger projects. Besides Pokemon Go, none of the other mobile pokemon games stuck with me for longer a week, but this one looks promising!
I already preregister when they first opened. I am looking forward to playing it since I like the change of pace and gameplay of the spin-offs.
Now a day I think I spend more time playing mobile games then my Switch, guess it’s easier to play with one-hand standing in a subway train and walking by comparison.
I despise all possible one man/woman play games needing the internet, otherwise I skip, and get Full games offline, etc...
hmmm....well, i still haven't played nor downloaded Pokemon GO when it came out in 2016 because: a) I had to look for a new job so i didn't feel I could afford to waste time playing it and b) I wasn't into mobile games. I only did Miitomo and FEH because i could earn Nintendo points and rewards Also I just couldn't be bothered and was much more focused on Sun/Moon at the time.
I downloaded and played this year's latest Pokemon Rumble Rush (again, mainly for the Nintendo point earning) but after a few goes I couldn't be bothered and much preferred the 3DS Pokemon Rumble World.
I then tried the new Dr.Mario World but didn't actively pursue it and deleted it after a couple of weeks.
I much prefer to play my 3DS than use up my phone's battery for mobile games. Plus this micro transaction component can be rather off putting. They tried that with the Pokemon Shuffle app and then the response was that it should've stayed as freeware.
Of course i'll give this a go but i can't see it lasting long on my phone...
The hype is stronger for this than Sword/Shield
#NotInMyPlaystore 🙃😒
I'll pass. Pokemon games are quite boring to me.
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