The Pokémon Company has officially announced Pokémon Sun & Pokémon Moon versions in today’s Pokémon Direct.
The two games will launch in 2016 Holiday for 3DS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmzDL1l3Fag
Pokémon Sun & Moon are compatible with Pokémon Bank and Pokémon can be transferred to Sun and Moon from the Virtual Console games. It will also be possible to transfer Pokémon from Pokémon X & Y and ORAS, using Pokémon Bank. The games will be playable worldwide in 9 languages.
The official site has confirmed that Sun and Moon will arrive with “a new world, new Pokémon, and new adventures to discover”. New Pokémon and region/s are confirmed! In addition to this the press release for the UK specifically states that Sun and Moon are a “new generation of Pokémon game”.
For those with a keen eye: the trailer appears to tease a new bird Pokémon with a similar appearance to Fletchling.
Things I want:
Dark type gym
Surf models for reach Pokemon
Not needing to have the move surf to cross water. If a Pokemon is big enough and can swim (mostly water types), it should able to swim without the need for surf. Same with all HMs really.
I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR A DARK TYPE GYM FOR SO LOONNNGGGG
I don’t like the third one, but the other two are excellent ideas.
So, this is really exciting. A new generation of Pokemon is upon us! I can’t wait to find out more. The only thing that kind of surprises me is that it is for the 3DS. With the NX speculated to come out this year, and rumored to be a handheld/home console, I would have thought they would save Pokemon for it. Maybe it’ll get a dual release (doubtful). Anywho, what do you guys want to see? AND What do you think we will see?
Personally, I want 80-120 New Pokemon, 15-25 New Mega Evolutions, Trainer Customization return and more options for it, and a return to Kalos to do the Zygarde story.
Alright what about
Grass Lemur
Fire Ox
Water Dolphin
Those sound cool, too! 😀 All these ideas sound wonderful.
http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/3260/8081/original.jpg
This fake leak’s grass starter acutally looks a lot like the new Pokemon O_o
ewwwww i hate the fire one
Yeah its nasty.
The other too are nice though.
Even if this is fake (which it is, most likely), these designs look awesome.
The logo looks nothing like sun/moon’s, it’s fake.
True, but I still love the designs <3 I wouldn't be mad if the starters ended up being similar to these ones.
I especially like the water one.
Same, it’s my fav of the three.
oh my gosh that fire squirrel thing is so cute
repost: So, this is really exciting. A new generation of Pokemon is upon us! I can’t wait to find out more. The only thing that kind of surprises me is that it is for the 3DS. With the NX speculated to come out this year, and rumored to be a handheld/home console, I would have thought they would save Pokemon for it. Maybe it’ll get a dual release (doubtful). Anywho, what do you guys want to see? AND What do you think we will see?
Personally, I want 80-120 New Pokemon, 15-25 New Mega Evolutions, Trainer Customization return and more options for it, and a return to Kalos to do the Zygarde story.
25 new Megas? That’s a lot for a game that will probably be pretty small.
15-25! 15 being the least, and 25 being the most I could see. I also don’t think the game will be “small”.
Battle frontier. I think we are overdue after oras left it out.
Maybe something like D/P’s.
I honestly dont mind as long as it is more than single/double/triple(ugh)/rotation(UGH). I liked being able to strive for certificates in either battle frontier, it was challenging and very rewarding.
Triple battles were kinda weird but I really liked rotation battles. There’s a lot of strategy involved when playing real people in them.
And less random hax.
Battle frontier plz
Since this a odd numbered generation we should be definately getting over 100 Pokemon.
I think since they don’t have to create a 3D model for every Pokemon this time around, that we will get more Pokemon. Atleast 100. I hope so, atleast.
Just to continue with my strong belief in a South and Central America themed region, there are temples in South America dedicated to the sun and moon respectively
Personally I think you may be right about south america, but we shall see
After all this time, I still wish the Kalos starters’ evolutions looked like either of these 🙁
https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=https://gaiashketoji.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/kalos_final_evos_by_zerudez-d6nu4wc.png%253Fw%253D645&imgrefurl=https://gaiashketoji.wordpress.com/2015/04/27/beda-2015-27-pokemon-i-think-should-get-mega-evolutions/&h=290&w=645&tbnid=1gwghqcjby0_hM:&docid=Qmd3sVfvzmytVM&ei=Xo3QVvC1Bsm6Uf76soAN&tbm=isch&client=ms-android-om-lge&ved=0ahUKEwjw3OSI_JXLAhVJXRQKHX69DNAQMwhbKDQwNA
Same <3 These look awesome 😀
They were surprisingly close with Delphox.
http://alvanista.com/uploads/timeline_image/2014/02/18/273514_2545907250.png
These are some of my favorite fake pokemon designs-for mega Johto starters.
I don’t like em
Same here, feraligatr and typlision seem cluttered
I like simple. Not cluttered.
I just realized who you are. Okay
I remember when I guessed where you lived. I was really cringey back then.
Yes. Don’t forget about the restraining order.
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Feraligatr basically looks the same 😛 I only like that Typhlosion one
These look incredible!!
Eh i feel like these are too cluttered. I appreciate the simple designs they went with in 6th gen. I look at goodra as an example of genius design.
I agree. Except for chestnaught. I think they nailed his design
new Pokemon idea
Lighter Beetle
Gargoyle
Dolphin
Ant
Warthog Mud Wrestler
Mega cofagrifus with Stance Change please!
YES IT WILL REPLACE MEGA SHARPEDO AS MY FAVORITE MEGA
I like mega altaria the best.
It’s cute but not my style
My favorite is Mega Ampharos.
Or maybe Mega Absol.
Ilike that one too. Heck iike most of them, i mean i guess the only ones i dont like are audino and slowbro
Audino has a nice design its just so terrible.
It’s a mistake
My fav is Mega Lopunny <3
I think my favorite mega is either Mega Sharpedo or Mega Altaria. I also like Mega Bedrill and Lopunny.
We must give it a hunky mummy with a big beard, as part of the design
Ooh yes baby. Sharpedo got a goatee sooo
Mega Rhyperior
That and electivire and lickilicky
And Volcarona. And possibly some forgotten Pokemon. Mega Masquerain would be awesome.
It’s coming. Shhhhh. I’m worried about the design since its already so busy though.
http://pokejungle.net/2016/02/25/breaking-pokemon-sun-moon-revealed/#comment-2534750198
Just a day ago people were thinking that this was fake…Pretty insane.
From the minute I saw it, I knew it was most likely real. I mean, trademarks usually end up being real, since es kinda hard to fake a trademark filed by Nintendo. Plus, it had logos and everything, like that also added proof to the ‘Real’ category for me.
Plus, they said ‘big news’ I doubt anything other than a new game announcement would be ‘big news’
“I mean, trademarks usually end up being real, since es kinda hard to fake a trademark filed by Nintendo.”
But remember Pokemon Gray and Delta Emerald? There definitely was reason to think this was fake, at least until the domains were leaked too.
Soo…if they do south east france/germany, they could have a Berlin Wall type situation. Not sure they would want to get into something possiblly political likebthat, but it’s an idea. Both sides have a different idea, evil teM is from other side of th wall or soemthing, different pokemon and ideas?
Hmmm, that’s interesting. I admit, it might be a bit too much, since there’s some dark history there, but it would be pretty awesome.
The history, all things considered probably would be too much, but a split region again would be awesome
It would be. If it was Southern France, it would explain the similarities but also why it wasn’t in XY and why no reference was made to it, in a way.
I’m 95.5555555% sure that whatever “region” this is, it’ll connect to Kalos much in the same way Kanto/Johto did. It just feels right. There’s a whole southern part of Kalos we haven’t seen but heard of. Kalos as a whole wasn’t nearly as explored as any of the previous regions. Not to mention this is a big milestone in Pokemon history, and I’m sure they want to treat their fans with something special and much requested, which is this is.
I know this kind of theory comes up with every generation, but it really feels right this time.
It does, considering Kalos and Kanto had similarities. It made sense from that time and even now to think there might be a Johto-like region connected to Kalos.
Team Mega Milotic please. Mega Hydreigon wouldn’t hurt either….
if it didn’t happen in ORAS why would it happen now
it should happen now because it didn’t happen then like it should? It’s a chance to fix it.
There’s no mistake
This doesn’t need to freaking happen, we have like a gillion Hoenn Megas give the others a damn chance
I don’t see any reason to sound so outraged over an idea. Didn’t you just suggest a lot of stuff you would like to see in it? Chill, mate.
yeah but i rarely get anything i like, and everyone often does
I’m fairly certain you have played XY /ORAS and I haven’t been able to afford/play either of them yet, which probably makes me like the one person here who didn’t. You don’t see me raging because of it? Either way, I hope you get the nice stuff you hope for. Cheers .
Artist block? Thats why mega flygon got the chopping block.
At least that one was planned
Nothing for that overhyped slug
Milotic is beautiful. Its not a slug its an oarfish 😀
it’s a annoyance
Well i would think some people disagree. Some might see rhyperior as an annoyance, but you clearly have a passion for it. I think
Oh Please
That thing gets all the love and praise
Rhyperior is just a shunned idea that gets pushed away and gets preyed upon by virtually anything
Well it is really slow and has two x4 weaknesses to common types..
exactly and they give this thing a fucking Mega AND A FAIRY TYPING
Well I’m sure a mega rhyperior will happen one day, unless they decide to stop doing them
I think thats a piss poor reason to dislike a pokemon. I love arourus even though it has the worst possible typing ever.
I mean I like Rhyperior a lot! I just hate its typing. Aurorus has an unfortunate typing as well, lol. But it looks so cool
Well im sorry. That makes 2 of us. You think rhyperior is shunned, try having purugly as a favorite pokemon. Even TPCi hates purugly. Breakpoint is the frist time we’ve had a purugly card since platinum. It skipped a generation an a half! I leanred to just accept peoples different tastes.
Try having Whiscash as a favorite Pokemon. Most people who I say that too just say “What’s a Wish Cash? I only know pikachu and charzar!
Ugh dont even get me started on those people…
Just curious, what makes it your favorite pokemon?
I bought one of those random pokemon figure packs and for some reason one of them had two Whiscashes. This blew my 6 year old mind and I caught a Whiscash in every game that it was available.
That makes no sense lol. All the more reason for it to happen since it hasn’t yet. The chances increase every game it doesn’t happen…
it makes perfect sense, a shit ton of Hoenn Megas for ORAS
and now that’s done, why give them even more
Ehhh. We had plenty of gen 1 Mega’s given to us in X&Y but that didn’t keep them from doing a few more in ORAS.
Which starters does everyone normally choose? Do you have a pattern? I always use the grass type myself.
Fire, i burn through things with a type that matches my fury
Usually water, sometimes grass. I seldom like the fire designs
Same here. Grass-types for some odd reason. They just always appeal to me, although Fennekin did change that for me cause Psychic-types are my absolute favorites, so it was a must.
I usually go with starters I like, which most of them end up being fire (excluding Piplup and Snivy). Although I end up playing with all of them.
I almost always choose grass myself, at least for my first playthrough. I will eventually use all three through different plays.
I go with the starters I like, but they’re mostly water types. My first non-water starter was Fennekin since I disliked Froakie 😛
Usually fire, occasionally gras. Water in Gen 6.
Whatever catches my soul as a pokemon trainer!
Water, most of the time. Squirtle, Totodile, Mudkip, Piplup, Oshawott and Froakie were all great (but I still prefer Charmander over Squirtle). Oshawott even is my favorite starter (because of Samurott).
There had damn well better be a Dark-type gym! If not, well… why the hell not?!
C’mon, Game Freak!
One day…..one day….
*doesn’t happen ever*
But seriously, yes. This needs to happen.
Dark type Gym Leaders aren’t allowed
Why not? If there are Dark E4, why not Gym Leaders?
Because Gym Leaders are meant to be respected and looked up to
I remeber hearing something how it would promote bad influences
AND BEFORE EVERYONE SHOVES ELITE FOUR THEY ARE RENOWNED FOR BEING THE TOUGHEST OF THE REGION
WHICH HAS NO AFFILIATION TO THE GYM LEADERS
You can say the same about the E4. They the toughest and strongest, people look up to them.
‘Evil’ is meant to be like trickery, cheating in a way.
And yes, they do have an affiliation, since you need to beat the Gym Leaders to get to the E4, es the system they developed.
If you make a Dark Gym Leader like Karen (who said that memorable quote by the way of playing the way you want to play with the Pokemon you like, regardless of its ‘Evil’ type of not)
It could also be a reformed criminal, who learned their ways but likes Dark types, showing that there is redemption for people who want it.
I believe es a good message 🙂
It’s really not an argument that gym leaders can’t be dark because it promotes “evilness”. It’s not like the E4 are morally ambiguous. They’re more powerful than gym leaders and command more respect. There should be a dark gym.
Exactly, but if people think that way, then do something like I said, where it’s someone who used to be ‘evil’ so to say, but learned their ways. I dunno, es just how I feel about people who bring that argument up.
Well they should just remove dark type if that’s the case…
*insert “is it because they’re black?” joke here*
Come on you know they will choose ice over dark….
Looking into the future, November will probably be full of leaks and speculation, which is always fun
Don’t forget the rumors and fakes and the fakes that turn out to be true, some disappointingly true til we get over it.
Ah, good times….they will be fun 😀
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yep.
You’re goomyforever, right? I remember the gijinkas you made.
Yeah! I’ve improved so much since then, though! I’ll probably try some gijinkas again sometime
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I’m putting it at 3 days tops before fake corocoro scans start coming in
Singapore is also a possibility but Sun and Moon doesn’t fit it.
I’m excited about the new gen,but I seriously hope they wrap up the whole Kalos story properly,and that they mix up the formula.
My hopes:
Better Engine (so no framerate drops)
3d models for all elite 4 and gym leaders
Awesome story
Good post game
Difficulty
6v6 Random Battles
I think they will, if they do a Johto-Kanto thing and return to Kalos :3
I really hope it’s more than that.
Visiting Kanto in Gen 2 was awesome,but the region itself was prett empty
True, they can expand it in a way, include some storyline there. Es a hope I have 😀
It’s illogical if they don’t do anything with Kalos.
What are the Zygarde forms and AZ’s Floette for then?
I used to think the Floette was there just for the cutscenes and all, since they need a model to animate in the scene, but when they revealed the move it learned, I kind of dropped that argument.
I want soaring to return but I know it won’t..
I don’t get GF’s logic.
Soaring,Pokemon Following you, DexNav are all features that should become mainstays in the series
Ughh Dex nav </3 please return. So useful
Pokemon following should be OPTIONAL its one of the many reasons i cant stand to play HG SS.
Really, you didn’t like it? 😮
I dont want to say i hated it but it… Kinda got old after while? I dont know its kinda hard to explain. I really am not a fan of Gen 2 to begin with and they didnt put any effort into fixing its problems with the remakes.
I really hope they put 6v6 option in battle spot. Asking passerbyers for battles takes too long.
Yes a hard difficulty would be much appreciated
Based on the descriptions, it looks like we won’t be unraveling the mysteries of the Kalos region, at least not in these titles. How do we feel about the high likelihood of these being Generation 7 games?
SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA
Feels kind of weird to just abandon the whole Zygarde thing, but maybe they’ll address it in the new games.
I feel like that’s what the XY&Z anime is for. It’d just work out better.
Generation 6 was pretty short if these are Gen 7 games, but Generation 5 lasted just as long (3 years, I think).
Gen 6 was basically Gen 1. This is the Gen 2 to Gen 6. It’s going to be amazing.
I just think there’s a lot of stuff in-game that would feel abandoned (see Armageddon16’s post below).
To be honest, I actually don’t want them to. It was a neat gimmick, but it’s nothing that interesting, and I don’t really see any way to pursue it further
It just feels like a lot of stuff left on the cutting room floor. But don’t get me wrong, I have no problem jumping into Gen VII this year.
It doesn’t have to addressed in the games. They could do it in a Pokemon Movie or a anime episode.
I mean… they could, but it feels weird to have Zygarde so obviously meant to tie into something more, and only play that out in the anime. What is Zygarde’s meaning or purpose in the games then?
If they don’t pay that off in the games, I’m going to have the feeling that they dropped some of their Gen VI plans to get VII started ASAP, due to failing 3DS sales.
Really good. If I’m being brutally honest, I don’t really care about Zygarde, Floette, Volcanion or Magearna. Guess i got kinda tired of Kalos. Glad we’re getting something fresh.
I can see that, and having played every generation of Pokemon, I’m going to have to agree with you.
Very likely, but like I said before, I believe we will return to Kalos and maybe explore the mysteries behind there, like a Johto-Kanto thing.
But, now I’m just repeating myself :3
Even if we don’t get two regions, the least they can do is actually have a postgame and take a hint from BW in terms of the storyline. I really need to replay those games, since they were amazingly intricate in storytelling.
True, Gen 5 had the best story, hands down 😀 At least, in my eyes :3
See i really like platinums story because i find rhe psychotic Cyrus to be a story pumping, compelling villain.
Cyrus was awesome to me. I love Team Galactic 😀
I never played D/P and couldn’t bear to finish Platinum. Might need to do that sometime, since we do have Sinnoh remakes coming up in the next four or so years, at least.
I cant stand to play them anymore, everything in them is so slow!
You have to play them. They are the nicest games in my opinion. But the downside to playing them now, is that they can feel very slow.
Yeah, they are. As a kid, and even now, they don’t feel slow to me, I dunno why. Maybe because I was patient, or that con was outweighed by the many pros I saw. I dunno.
I’ll give them a try and let you know how I feel about them 🙂
I’m curious about what you think of them.
As am I, since the last time I played them was around three years ago.
The official Pokemon website says “new region, new Pokemon” = Generation 7
http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-video-games/pokemon-sun-and-pokemon-moon/
I think Magearna might be a Gen 7 legendary Pokémon. I really feel like there will be some type of connection from Gen 6 to Gen 7. Gen 1 and Gen 2 had were connected, although it wasn’t story-wise. Wasn’t there an NPC in some hotel in Kalos saying something about a new region?? Hmm…
Your memory is correct. And I believe it was Shauna who mentioned that she’s going to go to a faraway region next. Maybe our rivals from Kalos will follow us to this new region, and bring us back to their homeland in the postgame (as Percy mentioned).
I would be so disappointed if those boring rivals followed us to this new region…
True, I didn’t care for the rivals (Excluding the main one, Callum or Serena). I kind of just want one rival, really. Having more than one always was meh to me.
It would serve as a reason for us to go back to Kalos in the postgame. Either that or the villainous team goes to Kalos and we need to go after them. Nonetheless, it seems strange that a game’s lore like XY’s is just left hanging.
Lol I agree Silver and Gary still remain the best rivals.
I also liked Barry a lot. Don’t know why, just loved battling him. Giving us a rival where the other gender is your rival is lazy. Hugh was nice too, Bianca and Cheren not so much. Gen 6 was absolutely the worst rival-wise.
I like the rivals who change or learn something through the journey. It makes them more human in a way. Barry realized he couldn’t be silly and ridiculous all the time, that he had to be serious and take things more seriously.
Hugh was awesome too, since he learned to stop treating you like a pawn and like the friend you were supposed to be (At least in my eyes, since some people don’t really see it)
And Silver is the best example. He saw Pokemon as tools, hated people, hated the world, even, but because of you being his rival and Lance, he learned to love Pokemon and tolerate people.
At the part of the trailer where they had snippets of the player running in different games, I really wish they had included a shot of the player in sun and moon, it would have really upped my excitement and it would have been great to get more of a glimpse of what the game looks like
It seemed to me that in one of those images they showed two trainers wearing some different clothing. Oh, and I love the new PC design.
I like these concepts that add more reality of pkmn world and show the cahoots between humans and pkmn I was think so much about that when I was a kid. http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1456499454108.png
That’s Machamp on the top, and ??? on its right, what is it?
Furfrou and Wobbuffet.
I really hope we get a Dark type gym. I’m so annoyed by the avoiding it.
It’s like a really old joke at this point that gamefreak just keeps telling..
wut r those1!!!!1!1 ! lmao xDDdDDDdD
Gamefreak: “Lol…lyke wat r dark typez…? Did we mention we hate bug typez?”
At least we got sick bugs in Gen 5.
Yeah we did! They need to make more powerful ones though, too many useless ones
An rude annoying joke!
Strange Souvenier
Project AZOTH
Zinnia,Draconids,Aster
Shauna going to a faraway region
Eternal Flower Floette
The War
AZ himself
Magearna
The separate timeline thing
So many things GF can build on and make an awesome story with,I seriously hope they don’t abandon them
I’m hoping we will get to meet Zinnia in SM, like she went there on her journey and we meet her. I would love that, since she could finally explain who Aster was to her, and how she died.
My thoughts entirely. This is why we need Kalos to tie into the story somehow or make up the postgame. I’m gonna be honest and say that if they reuse Kalos completely and call it a postgame, I’ll be irritated. I want something BW2 Unova style if we go back to Kalos–sufficient alterations but nothing dramatic.
Exactly.
Have some old characters such as shauna,zinnia and AZ make appearences.
Include references to the story of XY and ORAS.
After we finish the main game, have a Z episode where we go back to Kalos and Learn about the Zygarde forms and everything else
I like it. Z Episode sounds perfect.
I firmly believe these games will be what GS were to RBY, and I still believe Zygarde will be involved in some way. I really do believe Kalos will have a close relationship with this new region.
I would really appreciate it if they built a storyline that spanned multiple generations, rather than seemingly scrapping each one after a new gen
That would be an interesting twist on the storytelling.
It’s especially disappointing that they don’t do that, considering that Gen II made all kinds of references to the Gen I plot.