Pokémon has announced a press conference being held today to announce new business strategies and company partnerships. This unexpected development could mean anything for the series and fans are eagerly awaiting what it could mean.
The conference is being held on Japanese video site NicoNico and we’ll be updating this post with the information that comes from it. Make sure to refresh!
- The stream has started! Does anybody have any guesses as to what’s going to be announced??
- New Nintendo collaboration with Niantic, Inc. featuring a product based on Augmented Reality for mobile devices.
- Pokemon Go will be making its way to iPhone and Android devices in 2016.
- I have included a link for the new Pokemon Go trailer at the bottom of this article.
- Junichi Masuda is now on the stage.
- Mr. Masuda mentioned how he thought 2016 was going to be a big year for Pokemon considering it’d be Pokemon’s 20th anniversary. No sign of main-series game, however.
- Pokemon Go Plus revealed. It’s a device that connects via Blue Tooth with Pokemon Go and notifies you of what’s happening around you in the game via LED lights.
- Aaaaand that’s a wrap! No new main-series game announcements, unfortunately. Be sure to watch the trailer for Pokemon Go that is posted below and let us know in the comments if you’ll be playing it on your smartphone device in 2016.
Update: Pokemon Go will be free to play but will also feature in-app purchases.
Thank you PJ for letting me cover this news conference and I hope to return to cover some more news in the near future!
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I’m so nervous! I really hope it turns out to be nothing major and life-changing for the franchise that could hurt it.
Hooray for Chico articles!!
Pokemon coming to PS4!
That would be the worst they could announce. Or maybe a tell-tale Detective Pikachu game.
Apparently it has the “PC and Smartphone” and “green spin-off” tags on the stream site, whatever that means. Can we seriously never get what we want around here?
Don’t worry, we’ll get our turn. We still have CoroCoro. Which can actually come in this madness.
Pokemon will be sold to Disney.
Masuda tweeted about this event! I just don’t know what’s going to happen.
I don’t want to get my hopes up, because the last time I got my hopes up for a NicoNico stream we got Arcade only pokken tournament and the detective game that was never mentioned.
How do I watch the stream???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpMlrnQMLM0
You don’t. You wait for me to update the article because I’m working hard behind the scenes huehuehue. Streams are too mainstream. It’s all about spamming the refresh button.
Just want the page views 😉
Pokémon go looks cool. I hope the announce a new mainstream game.
Well, the transition to mobile was inevitable. I’m just happy there’s no sign of free-to-play, but an app to supplement the main series is a great idea!
They made it SO clear that a main series announcement is coming. A timeline with an empty space! That’s a new one. Masuda also said that it connects to the next main series games. GAMES.
Everyone wants a new main series game,the 20th anniversary is near,CoroCoro is going to get leaked soon,a pokemon press Conference is held,Shigeru Miyamato and Junichi Masuda are present…
And they announce a crappy mobile game..
Pokemon never fails to dissapoint
Give them time. The cake may yet not be a lie 😛
I think some of you all are forgetting a couple of things. Yes, it is a bit disappointing that there is no main game announcement TODAY, however, the concept of Pokemon Go is amazing! Even if it will not look as good as the trailer lol. I digressed a bit =p What some of you are forgetting is that the pokemon creators love trolling. Remember when they announced that the kanto starter evolutions would have megas, but then Charizard did not receive the long coveted dragon type everyone thought it deserved? Only for them to reveal it later?
They just love keeping their fans on their toes. They knew we would expect a main game announcement from this, so they threw a curveball. However, keep in mind that it is the 20th pokemon anniversary, they promised some revelations about the Blobgarde and the shadowy figure in that pic in corocoro and they want it to be a big year for pokemon. Can that be done with just Pokken and Pokemon Go? From a business standpoint, possibly, but I believe the Pokemon Go announcement is just the 1 in a soon-to-be 1-2 punch! =D
Hey guys! Long time no see/speak! First of all I think this idea and concept is absolutely cool mainly cuz I actually had a convo with earthen about Pokemon being real lol. Now we can find them in real life lol. Also guys this isn’t corocoro news yet so there is still hope. It’s so obvious that with the new Pokemon (booger) and zygarde form in the upcoming mega evolution episode that we are getting some kind of main game announcement really soon. Let’s just hope that corocoro doesn’t “announce” this.
At the end, everyone is bound to sell their soul…
Why is Pikachu making Oddish sound lel
What kind of overhyping and false advertising this trailer has…
Why does muk give you the finger in Snap? Why can pikachu learn fly on the pokewalker? Why can wooper learn ice punch? Why don’t the professors know your gender??? All these questions lol
False advertising? They teaching people that one throw of a great ball can catch a Charizard. Or that a Bulbasaur is worth a Vulpix…or that cute girls play Pokemon XD
Lol catching a charizard tho? You can’t do that in the main games
Lmao what I’m having trouble believing was the Mewtwo part where everyone wasn’t self-conscious that they’re using an app to catch non-existent creatures
The part where they are all running like it’s Black Friday, or there is wedding dress sale in Taiwan or someone is handing out fried chickens out there.
Hmm maybe a pokejungle get together for Pokemon go lol
After I saw the trailer,I realized how amazing this game would be with microsoft hololens
I actually thought something similar lol. That new thing that is gonna be used with minecraft later. That like brings the game to life lol
*eyes narrow* The Pokéwalker and Pokémon Dream Radar had a baby
Bae: Come over
Me: I can’t
Bae: My parents aren’t home
Me: …I have to catch Caterpie
Seriously, this looks amazing, and I can see it really take off and be successful. Just please don’t go down any dark alleys to try and catch any Pokemon (even if there are biker or punk class “trainers”) down there.
This is basically one step further to real life Pokemon, its a conspiracy that the Japanese Government won’t tell us
It’s a free to play game. I have to say this because there are people who don’t like free to play games that have in app purchases. Just remember that free to play doesn’t mean you have to pay.
I hope the Pokéballs don’t cost money.
I have a feeling that you can earn Pokeballs everyday or something but Great/Ultra will cost you
That’s how they get ya
I was thinking that but again you never have to pay. It will probably be either you wait a few hours or you can pay to get a lot right away
I’ll definitely download this but unless there’s some rad exclusives, I don’t think I’m going to invest too much in it.
I’m downloading this no questions asked. I love mobile games and I am really excited. Crossing my fingers that you can catch togepi!!!!!!
I really hope that the app works for everyone, I don’t want to be notified that a pikachu is near by and a friend can go and take it…
I’d be more excited if this was a game that would be connectable with google glass and you could see the AR like it was actually there. But then again, you’d be spending a fortune on a game just for the devices so ehhh. Still cool tho
Wait a sec, Chico you wrote this? You post articles under PJs name? Lol nicely done btw.
Thanks. 🙂
Omg that’s why they are working on so much!!!! It’s the 20th anniversary!!! I was gonna say wow they are working on too much but that explains it. I’d say expect more. Pokken, Pokemon go, Pokemon main series game, pikachu detective maybe.
I WANT IT SO BAD
Also, one other query I have about this is how to you get the lil device thingy? I’m assuming you have to register your details on the app then enter your address and they’ll send it to you…?
Maybe it’ll be sold in stores.
So, is this the ‘other’ thing of 2016 we were hinted at before and we all hoped would be a main game? I hope this isn’t all there is. We need a new main game soon, XY was so long ago and many of us have played ORAS to death already.
Not trying to insult anyone or something, but I really don’t mind how long it takes for the new main series games to be revealed. I don’t think we *need* a new main game soon. Do I want a announcement? Absolutely, but I don’t *need* an announcement.
I don’t know, but I was raised with the idea that “the longer something takes, the better the results will be”. The longer the production of a new main series takes, the bigger the chance it will be awesome. They shouldn’t rush the main games out, especially when people say “XY and ORAS are boring” because then it’s exactly the sign that they need to take some more time to make the next games better.
Besides, our wait really means nothing compared to other franchises (The Metroid fanbase for example needed to wait 5 years for a new game and it isn’t even the game they wanted), so a wait wouldn’t hurt.
This is coming from someone who doesn’t even get Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon (which I really want) this year because I live in Europe.
You’re not insulting anyone, you’re allowed an opinion ^_^
D’you know, I wouldn’t mind if the hypothetical “Z” came out late next year…except if that’s the case, why give us Blobby and Megagarde now? It’s really hyped everyone up, and they must know that. It’d be so weird if they now didn’t give us a main game until fall next year.
I agree with you that it would be better to wait for a decent game than have a bad one released early, but ORAS only spent a year in development and that was fantastic, so they can do it in a year if they wanted to…