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Yeah, this trailer does nothing for me. They haven't really shown anything radically different about this game yet to make a second trip through Alola exciting. The only thing I find legitimately interesting about this trailer is that forest. As several people around the internet have pointed...

Wow this is so lazy. It's literally just a recolor of Midday. Sounds like they just have a skeleton crew working on this game if this is their idea of a new form.

I think the reason why you're seeing more excitement for the Switch game than USUM is because the fanbase is flat out unhappy with the recent direction that the series has gone in and wants larger changes. Now that the honeymoon period is over for SM, I've been seeing a lot of criticisms about...

To be fair, that strategy makes a lot of business sense. New generations are far and away the biggest moneymakers for this series and offer them the greatest creative freedom, so they're a good game to start out with because they can show how the new hardware improves upon the older hardware...

Exactly. The Switch was designed as a response to the Wii U's failure, and one of the issues the Wii U had was a lack of games and long droughts. Combining their handheld and console lineups helps solve that issue, so keeping the 3DS defeats that purpose. They likely only said they're not...

I love how we know pretty much nothing about USUM and they're already hyping up the game after that. Do they really have that little faith in USUM? I mean, third versions don't really sell well, bu they've never teased a new game when they still have another one to promote. This sounds like...

@His Goominess You should never read too much into statements like that. They're PR, they're made to make the games sound more exciting than they actually are to get you to buy them. Look at what they said about ORAS when that was announced: And that basically just translated into Ruby and...

Well IMO SM wasn't terrible, I actually found it a pretty great game, but if anything, that doesn't help the potential of a followup game because now the games don't really have much to improve. Part of what made Platinum exciting was that DP's Sinnoh Dex was terrible and Platinum corrected it...

Glad to see I'm not alone in being totally unexcited for this game. Just based on pure concept, I'm not sure what they can do with ANY update to SM to make it exciting let alone this game which we're not even sure whether it's a sequel or a rehash. Part of what made BW2 exciting was that BW had...

I don't really like it, but it definitely sounds like Stars. Pokemon Directs tend to be major, franchise changing announcements. I mean, out of the last 3 Pokemon Directs 2 were announcements of new generations and 1 was for a new app that completely changed the dynamic of trading and...

Worth noting that May is historically a good month for Pokemon game announcements. For most of the past 10 years, we've seen either a new game announcement or the first real details of an upcoming game. I mean, look at some of the announcements we got in the past: 2007: First screenshots of DP...

Usually the mythical Pokemon featured in the movie is an ally, not the main villain. I mean, it's possible they could make Marshadow the villain but it's probably going to be Ash's companion during the movie.

But if they wanted to rush through this generation, why start it earlier than usual in the first place? If they wanted to rush 8th gen out, it would make sense for them to let 6th gen play out and rush 7th gen, not rush them both. For 1 extra year of Pokemon on the Switch? I doubt it. At that...

It goes further than semantics though. New generations or "new adventures" or whatever you want to call them have new regions, new Pokemon, new characters, and a new graphical engine. That's not something they come out with spontaneously and just abandon, they're putting a huge investment into...

I'm not ruling anything out, but the other alternatives either aren't as profitable or would be overly complicated, so they're not particularly likely. First there's the possibility of them having a break year this year. Technically they could make 7th gen just one game, but that defeats the...

I highly doubt SM are the last 3DS games. They wouldn't have even bothered making 7th gen on the 3DS in 2016 in the first place if they didn't intend for it to last at least one other game, not when they skipped the expected Z (or XY2, or whatever) game to do it. That plus this reveal that all...

Not just Zygarde, but Ash Greninja, Eternal Flower Floette, the locked Power Plant doors, and references to Southern Kalos. All references to a potential Z version that never came to be. It's not this simple, audiences come and go and the market changes over time. Some people get too old or...

We also found evidence for Z, but that didn't happen, now did it? You can't read too much into things, there's a lot of "hints" and loose ends in the game, that doesn't mean Game Freak is going to make anything of them. Well IGN and Gamexplain are just examples. You could just as easily say...

I would definitely like to see remakes resemble sequels a little more, but it seems like Game Freak doesn't want to mess with the games much because of nostalgia. What I think they can do with Sinnoh remakes to make them more exciting is have National Dex Pokemon obtainable in the main game like...

And here we come to the Donphan in the room, the Stars rumor. I don't think the Stars rumor is real and it'd be a poor decision for them to do it, both creatively and financially. Third versions don't really sell well, they typically hit about 6-8 million sales, which is about half of what...