Nintendo's been making some major moves to expand its business beyond gaming and into broader popular culture and entertainment. We have the Mario movie in Holiday 2022, a theme park already open in Japan and another on the way as part of the new Epic Universe theme park currently under construction in Orlando.
The Universal park is starting to take shape, with drone-ready internet sleuths doing admirable work sifting through permits and looking at overhead shots of construction. As a result we have a pretty decent idea of how it's shaping up in the video below, thanks to the Theme Park Shop channel.
Interestingly, at the end it goes into some rumour territory as it looks at an area next to Nintendo's plot. While it could just be a 'staging area' for construction, the video addresses rumours that there may be a Pokémon area of the park in the works - either that or an Illumination section, the company that's making the Mario movie.
It's all very speculative of course, but a Pokémon section would make sense for all involved. It'd draw sizeable crowds while tapping into the community aspects of Pokémon GO and the mainline games; it would be a banker in terms of success.
Of course, it may be nothing, hence the rumour tag. We can dream, though...
[source youtube.com]
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People have been dreaming of a lot of different things you could do with the Pokemon franchise.
A big MMO type game.
Good graphics with a sprawling open world to explore.
Heck even a full Pokedex would be great.
Whatever people are hoping for, we know full well the companies behind this franchise won't make it happen. They seem to be in the business of giving bare minimum for maximum returns.
As soon as I saw the title I thought to myself someone at Nintendo life must be a fan of Alicia's videos. The channel is also theme park STOP, not shop.
@gamer_Zeus- you are just talking about the games, TPC already have a deal with universal and the rest of the franchise actually has tons of effort put in in various ways. Sadly Game Freaks output is a where the heartbreak lies for many.
I could see this park being centered around Pokemon Go interactivity, and honestly I'm not so sure that's even a bad thing. Aside from the fact that everyone will be glued to their phone screens even more than usual.
@Gamer_Zeus *graphics that meet my excessive standards with a sprawling open world to explore.
Sorry, I'm just tired of people deciding that a art style they don't like is objectively inferior.
@BrazillianCara or maybe graphics that are better than 10+ year old 360 era HD graphics... which is where Pokemon has been stuck on for years.
Edit: sorry i just think that a company that makes video games as big as Pokemon in 2021 should have the resources available to be able to provide games with better visual representation than what we use to get in the mid 00s.
@Gamer_Zeus,
Totally get the fact you and others want a Pokemon game with unreal engine graphics, that will of course appeal to the niche core minorities, although not so sure it would go down as well with the majority of fans, my biggest issue is you are talking about it on an article related to a possibility of a Pokemon theme park.
Pretty sure we don't have to bring up the same old Gamefreak angst in every single Pokemon related article comment section.
@RiderSkyward
And again with that that Game Freak is to blame for everything, seriously, this is sick ...
Game Freak is the one that designs the story and characters (and obviously, Pokemon) to the franchise (that is, only the main games), hence, nothing to do with spin-offs (if Legends is considered spin off, well, then...) , animations, comics, parks, etc, etc. For that is the Pokémon company and mainly, Nintendo.
@Gamer_Zeus It is objectively inferior though
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