At the 2024 Pokémon World Championships closing ceremony, The Pokémon Company CEO and President Mr. Tsunekazu Ishihara shared updates for Pokémon GO, Pokémon Unite, the Pokémon Trading Card Game (and Pocket), and also the future World Championships locations. Here's the full rundown:
Pokémon GO - Morpeko And "Something Big"
Pokémon GO is getting Morpeko which can change form in battle, and "something big" is on the way...
Pokémon Unite - More Pokémon Join The Roster
Pokémon Unite is adding Aramrouge, Psyduck and Darkrai. They'll be arriving in September, October and November 2024.
Pokémon TCG Pocket - Launch Date, Pre-Registrations
This game is arriving on 30th October 2024, pre-registrations are now live:
Pokémon Trading Card Game - Trainer's Pokémon Return
Trainer's Pokémon Return to the physical Pokémon Trading Card Game in 2025. This includes the return of Team Rocket.
Pokémon Worlds 2025 And 2026 Reveal
The Pokémon World Championships is coming to Anaheim in 2025 and San Francisco in 2026.
If you want to see what else was announced at the 2024 Pokémon World Championships throughout the weekend, check out our guide. There are announcements for multiple games, distribution events (some end very soon) and much more.
Are you excited about any of these announcements? Let us know in the comments.
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Question : Are you excited about these announcements?
Me : Nope. I don't play handphone games & f2p games.
Pokemon Go Dynamax let's gooo.
Ohhh probably behind a paywall...
No ZA news. Nine hours of my life I cannot get back.
I'm glad that there were no ZA news cause that makes it imo more likely that it will be a crossgen game and they'll wait with the (gameplay-)reveal til after the Switch 2 announcement
Only news that interests me is the TCG Pocket release date. I've been needing another jpeg collectathon to go along with FEH ever since Dragalia shut down. Looking forward to a gacha game where I can actually trade my duplicates with friends.
At least they didn't bill this as a Pokemon Presents or a Direct. I guess Legends ZA is being saved for the Switch 2 hype cycle
Yesterday talking with a friend we thought we were not getting any new that could interest us, as it was not labeled as a direct or similar and looked for a place to talk about TCG and phone games. So...
Yup, considering the event this is went pretty much as expected.
Hopefully getting these trite updates out the way lends more air time to actual games during their official presents now.
With how a lot of Pokemon fans on Twitter have reacted to the lack of Legends Z-A news here, I'm not sure whether they want newer games to come out sooner or later to be honest XD
In all seriousness though, while I wasn't expecting an actual trailer for Z-A in a million years, I was hoping that we'd get the announcement of a Presents for the end of the month so nothing on the main game front is definitely a shame. Still, I'm very excited to see Owner's Pokemon come back to the TCG (with absolutely GORGEOUS art at that) and stuff like TCG Pocket getting a release date and Psyduck joining Unite were super cool as well.
The World Championships themselves were great too; no Incineroar in Top 32 for the first time since it originally got Intimidate was a sight to behold 🤩
That trailer for trainer Pokemon in the TCG was way cooler than it needed to be.
I would pretend that my disappointment is immeasurable and my day ruined for having had no ZA news, as I have seen some people on the wider Internet do, but it would contradict:
a) All precedents regarding announcements made at Worlds - never have we had main games key news at those, only snippets of mechanics of games we already had a ton of information about.
b) Wanting Game Freak to have the room to develop polished games for the first time since BW2.
So I'll hold off. Let them cook!
@Dogorilla TCG trailers are great all around; the ones for the Tag Team cards in particular are some of my favourite ads of all time.
Are they gonna backpedal that 💩 Pokémon GO! update? The trainer designs are terrible.
Thanks for the round up, personally I'm excited for TCG Pocket and the Trainer's Pokémon trailer was so cool!
@Sonicka
I wish I could channel your misplaced optimism.
I know some people are disappointed with no ZA news but as Serebii mentioned- The World Championships is very much focused on the competitive scene and seeming as ZA will follow suit to Arceus, I would assume that TPC wouldn't want to focus on a single player game at an event focused on the Vs aspect.
@nukatha I’m super optimistic in the next 40 minute “Pokémon Presents” we’ll get 10 minutes of console games shown off instead of 5 🤣
@Sonicka The longest Pokemon Presents so far was 27 minutes in 2021. It had 20 minutes on console games.
@GarlicGuzzler yes, I was a spectator in 2022 It costs around $10 but the availability is quite limited so I’d recommend trying to buy them on the first day they’re made available
@Bret smh 🤣
Still, How wonderfully unconventional of them all the same.
Considering the World Championships deal with the competitive scene, I'm not surprised they mostly stuck with related formats and reveals. Something like Pokemon Legends: Z-A - which is likely single player and non-competitive like Pokemon Legends: Arceus - is more apt to show up in a Nintendo Direct or Pokemon Presents.
Pokemon fans: please game freak take more time to make your games better
also Pokemon fans: I WANT A NEW POKEMON GAME NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Tyranexx The Pokemon fandom will never accept such a reasonable explanation. There has to be something dark and crazy going on!
@Bret Oh my gosh yes, how could I forget? They're trying to distract us from Dexit 2.0 in Pokemon Legends: Z-A, where there will only be Kalos Pokemon (+ an obligatory Pikachu cameo) available! Not to mention you'll be only able to see the game world's wireframe rigging half the time since they tested the game on three interconnected toasters. And the billboarding. Billboarding everywhere. Half the overworld is flat with a static skybox.
But the worst...the worst...MiCrOtRaNsAcTiOnS. Special events, the best items, player buffs, Pokerus, IV and EV training, outfits, even some quality side content and the best ending...all gated behind pay walls. Sure, they can be bought using in-game currency, but you gotta grind for it. A lot.
And then there's Gen 10, which will be mobile-only....
(Am I doing this right?)
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