EuroGamer writer Tom Phillips claims to have been told classified Nintendo information about the follow-up to the recently launched Pokémon Sun & Moon… and it won’t be a run-of-the-mill third version. The new game, codenamed Pokémon Stars, will be launching on the brand new Nintendo Switch console in summer 2017 or later.
Here are a few of the details:
- Brand-new Pokémon not found in Sun & Moon
- ‘Trading’ via Pokémon Box
- Switch-exclusive features
- Improved graphics
What do you think? This could be the first console version of the main series, but some fans may feel disappointed if there are exclusive Pokémon that require use of a totally different console.
The thing that strikes me most about Sun/Moon is how little it uses two screens. Aside from battles, it could easily be a single screen game
— Joe Merrick (@JoeMerrick) November 18, 2016
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now I have to save for the switch? damn fine nintendo ill play your game
Man, seems like a bummer tbh, but we’ll save critisism when theres actually something to judge.
Also Bummer about it been on the switch, not the details about it, those seem awesome.
I think they will probably add in multiple save files and make you able to battle between saves
That would be a good idea
WHAT
Now THIS is tantalising…
I’m hopeful/eager to see if it can catch up for Sun and Moon’s defects (however amazing these games are anyway), especially on the piffly number of new pokémon/the fact that Alolan forms turned out to be a massive joke/the somewhat underwhelming 20th anniversary feel compared to BW2 for example…
WAIT……..WHAT.
WAIT WAIT WAIT……this would be the third version of SUN AND MOON?!?! ON THE SWITCH?!?!
GUYS….what if THIS is why the Pokedex feels SO incomplete?!?!
If this is true, then this would be utterly unprecedented for the Pokémon series. We’ve never had the same generation cross consoles, and this would be the first main series game to come to a home console!!!
OMG MY MIND IS BLOWN.
Technically we have had the same gen Cross consoles.
When talking main Games, only Crystal was a dedicated GBC game. While Marketed as GBC, G/S were GB Games.
But yes, first home console, but also the implications in that could mean less people playing, most families have 1 Home console per family.
This would be soooo amazing!!! I’m literally next to tears! I’m in love with Pokemon Sun and Moon and knowing that I can get a continuation of that experience on the Switch, which I’m already insanely excited for, is just too much for my little old heart to bear 😀
!!!!Sweet merciful baby Jesus in a stroller on Christmas morning!!!! Oh am I excited 🙂 🙂 🙂
If it’s true that is…
I already have my doubts about this. I’ll try and debunk this too.
1. New Pokémon never before seen in Sun and Moon. There have never been any third versions with new Pokémon.
2. Sun and Moon have just been released. This is already a red flag, as there is never any news about the next game just after the newest games have been released. (Remember when just after X and Y were released there were rumors of Pokémon Plus and Minus and the games being in a region that was to take place in Southeast Asia?)
3. While the switch does have a handheld feature, I do believe Game Freak wants to stick to tradition by releasing the games on handheld consoles like GB, GBC, GBA, NDS, 3DS.
I hope you’re right, cause if not that would mean massive implications for how many people will be playing Pokemon.
Probably a lot more than now. Considering there is a MASSIVE player base that has been dreaming of a console quality Pokemon experience since damn near the beginning of the franchise. It would also bring a lot of fans who have left due to stagnation back into the fold.
But see, what reduces that is, well the Switch will be Marketed as a Home console that can be Portable. An awful lot of Families have a 1 Home console thing. So imagine families with 3 kids who all want Pokemon “Sorry kids gonna have to share”, which for 1 cartridge isn’t really good.
Sure it’s fine for those who can afford to, but the beauty of it being on Dedicated Handhelds was that there was more than 1 purely for that reason.
Ok except for the tin foil hats who always have to believe contrary to what is written in the stars, Nintendo isn’t releasing another dedicated handheld. Switch is going to be their only hardware. Are they supposed to just stop making Pokémon? lol
That’s not what I’m saying at all. It’s likely they won’t make another dedicated handheld, which is sad, but they can come up with a solution to not make what I mentioned a problem.
Price could be one.
That is why I think, you’ll be able to buy the portable part seperately – like a stand alone handheld
and a bundle with the portable screen and docking station – like a home console
you would only need to buy the bundle once and could add several portable parts later on
Now that’s a reasonable solution
You are clearly not familar with Eurogamer. They have legit sources. Its true
They clearly aren’t… I’m also not understanding all of this immediate negativity. I believe we might be seeing the beginning of that split in the fan base that comes when a franchise is about to evolve, no pun intended.
I’m also not understanding how we’re still holding gamefreak to the same old “traditions” and they’ve been bucking them gradually since BW2… Like at this point we’re just along for the ride because we don’t know what GF is going to do. And that personally excites me
Yes yes yes all the yes
My exact reaction plus a couple yaaaassssssss’s lol
Lol And just this last week we and people on here touting how we would NEVER see a third version ever again.
Pokémon Star is kind of a redundant name considering the sun is a star but wooooooooohh
-I wonder how time will work
-More evolutions maybe?
-Hopefully the 3DS version will be updated to include the new Pokémon
-Battle Frontier?
-ok but where is Sinnoh?
-Honestly, probably normal.
-New Alolan forms?
-Hopefully. Yet ORAS and XY offer some doubt to that.
-That’d be cool.
-My guess, holiday 2018 exclusively on Switch.
-An idea for how time works is, 6 hours between sun and moon.
-I’m not sold on the new pokemon thing, but Rockruff may be able to evolve into both lycanroc forms
-Kinda doubt
-Hoenn or Sinnoh, or something to mix the 2
– Late 2017 depending on when Marshadow is released
I suspect “new Pokemon” means new Alolans and new forms. They’re always treated as new Pokemon by official sources and what not.
It says it’s the code name, the real name could be something else when it’s officially announced
But if they updated the existing S/M to include however many new Pokemon there might be, we might not have SD card space for the necessary update
I posted my complaints about the Nintendo Switch on Miiverse and there were people that agreed with me. I was hoping for some of my favorite companies, like Namco, to create some new arcade shooters. If I could, even though they do not have the staff to review the ideas created and submitted by fans, I would try and write them letters of advice anfd tell them that the Wii U is definately built for arcade shooters. What happened to the new Wii U Zapper they had promised us?
Trusk, buddy. Let me make something clear. Nintendo rarely if ever listens to fans
But on the real. This is very exciting. I wonder if it’s a sequel or an enhanced version. I was really hoping this happened!
Third version? Yes please (even tho I don’t get the game for another 5 days)
Switch? Please no. The 3DS is still a good console and I don’t wanna have to pay for a whole Switch console thank you. At least sell the main portable Switch bit at a lower price (or all together, just put it on both Switch and 3DS)
The 3DS wasn’t going to exist forever.
Well I’m aware of that haha.
Just don’t want to have to buy the Switch if its the new home console + portable. I mean it would be a waste of money for me since I’m currently at university and don’t have a TV
That’s why I would like em to release the Switch portable bit separately
Nrrrrrrrr an hour left for the store to open
That sucks, but you know what sucks more? Being stuck in school then having to rush to the store afterwards when other people are going to be doing the exact same thing.
Tentative Stars Playthrough Team! lmao
Incineroar
Alolan Sandslash
Minior
Drampa
Dhelmise
Turtonator
According to GoNintendo’s reporting the game was ORIGINALLY a summer game, but no longer. It will be later in the year. Don’t hold your breath for DPP remakes in 2017 also friends.
Unrelated but, does anyone know why Bulbapedia won’t include Zygarde as part of a trio with Xerneas and Yveltal?
No idea, but that’s dumb :/
Maybe because there wasn’t the Z version there should have been, and because GF just decided to say “screw making sense about Zygarde being a Kalosian legend”, we got Zygarde’s “full arc” turn into an Alolan fetch quest with, from what I hear, pretty much no lore?
It still doesn’t make sense because even if we never saw it in action, Zygarde is clearly supposed to be the Rayquaza-style resolver of a Xerneas-Yveltal conflict, what with it being the guardian of order (ie life and death being in balance) and having the aura break ability. Also it’s Complete form clearly incorporates Xerneas and Yveltal elements in it’s snakes, and is purposefully stated to be more powerful than each…
Also, it was released as a trio in the TCG with them, and it’s Pokedex entry for 100% Specificly mentions them, but despite that, Bulbapedia is refusing to add it to the Trio Page, because “Not enough evidence”
Urgh,bunch of stubborn nerds, is there any way they can be reasoned with and that can change?
I think the only way Management of Bulbapedia will change it is if there official confirmation, gotta hand it to them, least they’re making sure it’s all accurate, even if it does mean being anal
You know what’s most exciting about this though:
With a core Pokémon game being launched for it, the Switch is guaranteed to have a strong install base before the first year for it is out.
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KOMALA
IS ADORABLE!!!
Also rumored, but not from EuroGamer, Rabbids x Mario RPG for Switch. I could dig that.
http://www.gonintendo.com/stories/268786-rumor-ubisoft-working-on-a-rabbids-super-mario-crossover-rpg
Well that’s the end of Pokemon gaming for me then I guess. I never planned on buying the Switch, and I still don’t. *sigh*
Oh well, at least Ill still be able to battle on Showdown.
Why did this get announced day of release? O.o
It wasn’t announced, it leaked. I bet Nintendo won’t be happy.
EuroGamer is unofficially announcing it. I’d say this is prime time to announce it for that internet traffic.
THIS IS WHY THE DEX FELT INCOMPLETE!!!!
With 300 pokemon?
I think it was pretty obvious I was talking about new pokemon
I mainly thought Alolan felt incomplete. You hype up a new form just to only have 10 fully evolved ones? Hopeing for 10 more.
If there is no fossil Pokemon again. I will be very angry and disappointed for GameFreak !!!
I mean the region is based on Hawaii so it makes sense that there are not
Urghhhh…
No, no no no, no no no no, that’s pretty patently false.
Hawaii does have fossils. A few marine ones. Granted they’re nothing special, but it has a bunch of cool subfossils. (and anyway GF don’t care much about biogeography, so neither the type of fossils featured nor the presence or not of fossils should affect their choice anyway).
And anyway, there are 4 fossil lines in the Alola dex, and they are indeed found in fossil form. That’s pretty much checkmate to anyone who wants to think GF is trying to make some supposed form of “sense” here.
This was a stupid limiting of their own creative pool, and they don’t deserve anyone making excuses for them over it. Here’s hoping it was only because they’re keeping them for Stars.
Sorry for the agro but i’ve already spent way too much time putting things right here. GF don’t deserve a pass on this one, it’s just another random dumb decision.
Maybe they just couldn’t decide on a proper design, like with Mega Flygon
That’s not a bad theory in general, but if they couldn’t fit a design idea for one fossil creature, they had LITERALLY HUNDREDS TO PICK FROM, so I don’t really see that being the reason in this case haha
fair enough man
There are fossils, just no new ones
OK, I mean new fossil Pokemon ha ha