Dilly-Mick

By "In game concert" of course you mean, if you opened the game and navigated to the news section you could find a link which sends you to a webpage with a private YouTube video imbedded in it. You could watch the video as an overlay when you return to the game (or any other app for that matter) but you'd be better off watching it fullscreen and the overlay would get in the way of gameplay no matter where you leave it.

Great idea, less than optimal implementation and communication.

@Kiwi_Unlimited let me refer you to our old pal rotom and the sirgfetch'd reveal

So basically the AI takes an input and generates the next key frame based on observing overworld gameplay from Pokemon Platinum. Though you can tell they only trained it on the first areas in the game (As evidenced by the lack of variety and the ability to make out the words "sandgem town" in the upper corner while traveling west)

Nothing too radical but not too shabby either.

Also the idea NNs are modeled after the human brain is misleading. It's like making a diorama of the JJ Thompson Atom. Technically it would be modleled after an atom, but based on an oversimplified and obsolete understanding of how the structure actually behaves

Honestly, the fact that Nintendo used to do this sort of thing at all is impressive. Asking them to redo it retroactively on entirely different hardware and firmware is entitlement at it's finest

Malice spewing out of death mountain..

Why were there so many farming RPGs!?!?

I know a certain puppet that is very happy right now.

I don't need it
I don't need it

I NEEEEEEEEED it!

Me: this is fascinating, hilarious even, it's not that weird, probably inspired by real butchery.

Me to me: when did you become so desensitized?

P.S. for real though they toned this down a lot considering how SFW it is.

@PokemonDMG sounds like Arbitrary code Execution (ACE) with the right program you can run literally any code you want within the game, using ACE. A month or two ago, ACE was used to add a boss fight with the running man and a BOTW-inspired cutscene into an unmodified copy of ocoraina of time.

Gamefreak: We know how much you care about the graphics on the trees

The graphics on the trees:

@FoxMcMuffin why should other people vote based on your nostalgia?

@swoose **right**??

@Corvus96 just because you think newer pokemon are worse doesn't mean everyone agrees with you... In fact according to my easier tally, half the people here ranked Kanto as dead last

Also I've seen more primary sources supporting ogbert's version of events than yours

My brain inserted an et to the second word in the title

I think ai have a Pokemon problem.

@SMUGSLOTH69 I mean, 8 is getting DLC content up through 2024.... So

@Gamecuber Mario kart is always the #1 seller on a system. (Helps that it was bundled with the console for years) Animal crossing's sales were boosted by the pandemic.

The real surprise is SSBU outsold BOTW.

(Pokemon consistently sells well but it's never at the very top)

How does Nintendo decide which titles to update sales numbers for?

Green Kirby sick emoji!

@WallyWest that has nothing to do with it's design tho. (Barring your opinion that a Pokemon is inherently better based on it's source of inspiration, which could be the topic of a whole separate debate entirely) imagine if it didn't do all that and the first time we ever saw a Snorlax was in scarlet and violet...after we already knew bewear. Would it still be so iconic?

Just for fun I tallied up everyone's rankings. (Half-points for ties)

Kanto and galar are the most devicive with half the votes scattered across the top 4 and the other half in dead last. Their tallies were so similar I'm listening them together

Johto is only slightly better with a few votes in the top three but but the majority being placed around 7th

Hoenn gets a mixed reception as well but generally viewed positivly, being the only region without a single vote below 6th place

Sinnoh was consistently ranked either 1st or third (Not a single vote for second though,) with only a couple votes lower than that

Unova has 1 or 2 votes in every placement. Which is impressive in of itself.

Kalos has a lot of hard stand stans but on the other side quite a few people don't really care for it either

Alola is the dunsparse of pokedexes... Constantly ranked in the middle with one person ranking it higher.

In conclusion people really like sinnoh (and to a lesser extent Kalos) Hoenn is nice, Alola is very... Middle... And everything else you either love it or hate it.

@EarthboundBenjy unpopular opinion the majority of the Kanto dex is overated and if for some reason a Pokemon like Snorlax was quietly shelved before the release and revealed as a "new" Pokemon today it wouldn't be as loved.

While I agree with most, if not all, the points made here this is the order I would have placed them in:

8 Johto
7 Unova
6 Kanto
5 Hoenn
4 Alola
🥉Kalos
🥈Galar
🥇Sinnoh 🏆

@BlueBCA glad somebody else noticed

Scarlet and violet will be competative format for next year... Something somehing next card rotation.

Moral of the story: you can spot a yigga based on whether or not they're frowning

@Inc yeah, and it's not like the publicity doesn't go both ways either. "My favorite brand is supporting less fortunate people? Mayve I should too"

That's 2 dollars for every copy of legends arceus!

Firs snom, now lechonk... RIP

For someone who regularly follows pokemon news it was nothing but reminders and Scarlet Violet news.

Very light on announcements but did what it was supposed to

Also salt about the mount silver cinematic

I'm still slightly concerned about what they didn't show but there is a lot more to this game than I originally thought. I was on the fence but now I'm excited.

@Xiovanni to be fair, we don't know how soon you can unlock it... If I've already explored a large chunk of the map i'd appreciate the chance to go from point A to point b faster

Also legends did this well where ride pokemon was better fkr covering large distances but exploring an area was better on foot.

@MsJubilee poe's law?

@MajorTom this is a good point... Ooen worlds are no good if tgeir empty... But so far I like what I see

@Araquanid from what I know about archives and from my take on this job advert, i don't think it will be availible to the public...

@steventonysmith or you can enjoy a game by obsessing over the lore

Or you could go through the painstaking effort to preserve games for future generations to enjoy.

@ZZalapski the biggest advantage is preserving the media itself without re-releasing it and/or allowing copyright infringement.

Seribii and bulbapedia don't have comprehensive media archives in their site just reports just links to and JPGs of official media.

I actually worked in an archive for a few years and it's a full time job, ideally, your goal is to make something that could outlast the internet. And for a game company, that includes preserving internal documents and game betas they can't share with the public

@Jordium_Z uhm... No?

@Xaessya bulpapedia is an encyclopedia not an archive. You can read about pokemon pinball but you can't play it.

@thinkhector poes law?

@Serpenterror you don't have tto buy it, just preserve what tpc already has.

@Ryu_Niiyama ah, poor dr lava... You were so close.

Good for them, preserving videogame history is very important!
Also I can think of a few indeviduals who do this sort of thing as a hobby so i'm sure there were a ton of applicants right out ofbthe gate.

@Giancarlothomaz yeah... That happened... So what? Think nintendo has had time to build a fiundery and mass produce new chipsets in a couple weeks?

@nocdaes ... At the earliest

@westman98 probably because the licence didn't have an expiration date.

@TvSonicSerbia ye, I heard kim jong-un is a big fan. (Dead serious)

@Jevarel first off niantic is a privately traded conpany, they don't need to "make the shareholders happy"

second, they if you haven't noticed, an 8% decreace staff is actually rather optemistic given the current economic trends and especially compared compared to other, more "sucessfull" tech companies.

Third Niantic has two products ready for launch and their developer platform is starting to reach maturity. This is actually a convienient time for them to undergo a restructuring and otherwise the least essential employees on those projects would have been moved elswhere anyways (most likely to lowest-priority projects)

In balance, I have to say niantic made the right call. If anything expect the teams for the cancelled projects to get moved into the teams supporting proven products like GO and Lightship.

@MysticX i mean... I don't think.niantic expects to make annother pokemon go. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't invest in new products...

Imagine if 6 years after Donkey Kong people were still rolling their eyes at everything Nintendo released. "They should just give up, they'll probably never get anywhere close to that ever again"