Pokémon Scarlet & Violet's Multiplayer Will Let You Explore With Up To Four People

Local co-op multiplayer or online multiplayer? Local co-op would be interesting but online multiplayer is okay too.

If it’s just as simple as being able to see your friends in game and battle/trade with them at will I hope you don’t have to connect to each other every time you play, would be cool to just have a list of selected friends you don’t mind being part of your game and them just showing up whenever you’re both/all online if you’re in the same place

Genuinely sounds cool that we can actually interact with them in multiplayer. Hope we can also trade/battle without having to connect everytime!

I'm imagining a scenario where you only have your starter, you and a friend run to different parts of the map and capture new 'Mon to fill your party, then you meet up and battle each other with your new team.

This could make the game worth buying for me!

As ex.NL Jon and his crew on GVG mentioned in their live-reaction stream is that the hair design on both male and female black player trainers looks amazing.
I totally agree and it's a nice touch of detail in the design.

This is a really great step forwards, I’d love to eventually get to a point where you truly have a real life friend as your rival and play through the game together.

I’d love to do this with my 2 homies. Pokémon could be such a great multiplayer game but it’s been restricted to 2 of the least interesting forms of multiplayer you can have. I’ve never had the urge to battle my friends Pokémon and trading is just an inconvenience created by the games themselves having exclusive Pokémon. I love that I didn’t need any connectivity to fully enjoy legends arceus.

But what can we do in multiplayer? If its just trading and battling each other then I don't see the point, hopefully we can do double battles with wild pokemon and trainers or fight boss pokemon in certain areas that act similar to raids which may change in a daily basis etc

@Serpenterror "Local co-op multiplayer or online multiplayer?"

As someone who doesn't play any online but plays a lot of couch w/ my spouse and kids this is the question of the day. Not just for this game but every game that advertises "multiplayer" but then I have to Google it just to be disappointed and find out it's online only. Couch is really going the way of games being complete day 1. 😢

Even the Mario Strikers demo, for a game that advertises 8 player offline, there isn't even 2 player in the demo. 😝

See it being a feature there's pretty much no chance I'll ever actually use but it's cool to have.

If this truly is an online multiplayer RPG, this might be the game to get me back into Pokemon after skipping Gens 4, 5, 7, and 8. Let's Go and Legends are neat, but I haven't finished either one.

@Serpenterror I don't think it's single system multiplayer. But LAN / online should be no problem.

Yep according to https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/pokemon-violet-switch/

It's 1 player per system, but allows for Local multiplayer and online.

To be honest, I kind of get a Monster Hunter vibe on the way the multiplayer sounds, when 4 hunters are out on a map together. You come together, or you can each go your separate ways to explore different areas of the map, then come back together again for battles. It seems to me that the Pokemon Company might have learned a little from Capcom with how smooth the online play for MH:Rise is. I was excited for Arceus and its open world (and I loved it). But with 4 player online co-op storyline gameplay with Pokemon Scarlet and Violet? I am BEYOND excited for this. My two daughters and I can finally live out our dream of running around hunting pokemon together. Its actually something we've wanted for the past few generations of Pokemon games. Each one kept getting closer, but it looks like what we have always wanted is finally here! They had already put a double pack on pre-order for them from Gamestop, but I'm going to have to get a copy (of Scarlet) for me now, too (I was probably going to pass on the game myself and just watch them play until this news)!

... Where's the disclaimer saying that NSO is required?

IS THIS LOCAL MULTIPLAYER IN A MAINLINE GAME!?

That sounds a lot like a pretty way to describe meeting other players in the Wild Area, but now everywhere.

I really only play pokemon games these days for my friend so this actually makes me wanna buy it sooner than I usually planned for.

Best news from the trailer and an unexpected one too!

I called this feature back in February after the first direct. I've BEEN expecting it since Gen 4/5. I've WANTED since Lets Go and now we're FINALLY getting it! Open world pokemon with up to 4 friends is amazing! Battle and trade three buddies at any time will be the best feature pokemon has ever seen for immersion.

Looking forward to FINALLY being able to go challenge a gym while my friends are simultaneously off chasing legendary pokemon in the same breathing world. Next, I hope they'll consider a max of 8 players since the Switch basically offers that, but I'll be more than happy to settle with 4 players going forward.

Gamefreak you did me SO proud today.

Oh my gosh, I'm too lazy to comment on every article but my expectations have risen a ton with this newest trailer. Very hyped for all these features

We'll see how it will hold up when the game releases. This could have potential I mean, I thought Pokémon would be more fitting to an online open enviroment ala GTA/Red Dead Online rather than a MMO. If everything is executed properly this could be the perfect first step

as someone who has spent months shiny hunting pokemon in dynamax adventures, i can see this as being extremely horrible

I'll get back into pokemon for this if it offers full coop via local wireless.