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Game Freak announced during Nintendo’s Treehouse livestream today at E3 2016 that that their upcoming smartphone game in development with Niantic Labs, Pokémon Go, is releasing in July 2016.
Pokémon GO will feature the first generation of Pokémon when it launches in July. From there, the game will add the next generations after through updates.
The wearable gadget Pokémon GO Plus (pictured above) that alerts you when Pokémon are nearby, will become available sometime near the end of July for $34.99. While the release date of Pokémon GO wasn’t officially announced, Shigeru Miyamoto’s reveal of Pokémon GO Plus accidentally revealed its release window of July.
Junichi Masuda also mentioned that the game will be compatible with future main Pokémon titles; however, it won’t be available at the start as they’d rather have players get familiar with the smartphone game first.
Pokémon GO is expected to launch in July 2016 for smartphone.
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We should, but then it defeats the whole purpose of Pokemon, which is to interact with others. It's supposed to be great that you can trade Venusaur for Blastoise, but how pointless would it be if you had a Charizard, Blastoise and Venusausr in separate save files on the same cartridge?
I don't want to sound like a *****e or anything, but you kinda just have to suck it up and deal with it. That's also the same reason why we most likely won't ever see a console version of any of the games, because it completely goes against the point of the game, which is to be a handheld game that allows you to interact with others, either personally like in the 90s, or over the web like now.
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Nintendo has announced three entries in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series will be coming to the Nintendo Wii U in North America. On June 23, 2016, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team, and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky will be added to the Virtual Console game library.
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team are sister games, though the former appeared on the Game Boy Advance and the latter on the Nintendo DS. They were the first Pokémon Mystery Dungeon installments and followed a human who was turned into a Pokémon. This person makes friends with a real Pokémon, and the two create a rescue team that goes and saves Pokémon who may be lost or trapped after natural disasters.
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky is a sister game to Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness and originally appeared on the Nintendo DS. It is part of the second group of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games and once again follows a person turned into a Pokémon. The player finds a partner and joins Wigglytuff’s Guild, a group of explorers who explore the world. Along the way, you’ll learn the truth behind a Relic Fragment your partner Pokémon carries.
In the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Virtual Console announcement for North America, Nintendo also notes that more Pokémon Virtual Console games will be released in summer 2016.
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3DSYour latest "next update" teaser.
The next Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon information blast will arrive next Friday, July 1 at 6:00 a.m. PDT / 9:00 a.m. EDT, The Pokemon Company announced.
If you missed it, a new “Battle Royal” feature and a number of new Pokemon were revealed at E3 2016 last week.
Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon are due out on November 18 in North America and November 23 in Europe.
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Polygon got the chance to speak with The Pokémon Companys senior director of consumer marketing J.C. Smith, as well as Niantic CEO John Hanke about Pokémon GO. Hanke mentioned that the primary goal of Pokemon GO isnt necessarily to catch them all, as per usual for the main games in the franchise, adding that its still possible to compete for gyms and progress.
Hanke also spoke to the importance of accessibility for both newcomers and long-time Pokémon fans alike:Were trying to make the game accessible to a person who doesnt yet know how much they want to commit to the game, who just wants to explore. That includes not just the Pokémon newbie, but those on the opposite side a diehard whos played all of the RPGs but isnt sure if an augmented reality game that requires them to get up off the couch is really their speed. At the same time, we think that theres an opportunity to build depth. Theres an emergent complexity that doesnt hit you over the head at first blush, [from] trying to power up your Pokémon and evolve and ultimately start competing for gyms.Additionally, J.C. Smith said that their goal was never to recreate the video game experience, but rather to make a new experience that was native to mobile.
Smith also had the following to say in regards to Pokémon GO Plus:It could be that youre out walking in the park with friends and meeting friends somewhere, and may not want to interrupt the conversation and break the social dynamic thats going on [to check Pokémon Go]. With a few clicks of the button, you can harvest items and catch Pokémon and continue to build up progress in the game. In all of those scenarios, it would be really awesome to have a device not to completely replace interacting with the phone, but supplement it.Pokémon GO will release this summer for iOS and Android devices.
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Were expecting the next Pokémon Sun & Moon info to be revealed on July 1, but new images have surfaced, showing what could possibly be a potential leak of several new Pokémon. [Thanks, Serebii.]
According to the Serebii report, it is currently unknown where these leaks have come from, but theyre supposedly from videos that have been uploaded somewhere. Again, do keep in mind that new Pokémon games see fake leaks more than anything else, so be sure to take it with a grain of salt.
Note: Since it looks pretty legitimate, it could be considered spoiler territory for some, so well go ahead and put the images further down below:
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We may or may not learn more about these Pokémon tomorrow during the Pokémon Sun & Moon announcement that is expected to be revealed at 10:00pm JST, or 6:00am PT/9:00am ET/2:00pm BST on July 1, 2016.
Pokémon Sun & Moon will release for Nintendo 3DS in Japan and North America on November 18, and in Europe on November 23, 2016.
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