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Gamestop Switch page mentions playing ''Pokemon at home with the Nintendo Switch''
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I'm getting the feeling that Sun and Moon were build with the Switch in mind and Gamefreak just down ported it to the 3DS. Hence, the performance issues with it running on old hardware.
The original Stars rumor stated that it was in parallel development, so probably something like the Smash 4 process where they would develop HD assets and then dumb them down a bit to make them work on 3DS.
Just have to look at some design choices for Sun & Moon to see that it really feels like it was designed to be, or at least to be easily adapted to, single screen.
Why else would they pick Festival Plaza over a PSS style system?
Rodney McKay
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Good point, it's been a while since Nintendo did a third version of a Pokemon game, even when it would have made sense to (like not getting Z after Pokemon XY when it seemed like it probably would).
I'll definitely hold off on selling my copy of Moon until more details are out about the Switch versions, but unless the battery life is abysmal, the Switch will definitely be my preferred way to play.
And it feels some potential post-game content is butchered from the final game. But if (end game spoilers)
Pokémon Stars let us revisit Kanto and Johto after our Alola journey and be Lillie our next rival I will claim a million of times this generation is the absolust best.
CrunchyFrog
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I don't know much about how Pokemon games are developed, but it would seem to me that adding a fully realized Kanto in HD would take more than an extra year of work.
Don't expect multi-region games. Unless they make you not use your Pokémon, there will be balance problems
Valkerionseven
Member
Still keeping skeptical for when turns out to be a case of "reading what I wanted to see, not what was actually written" and it was "Pokemon 'All' Stars" this whole time. Some half baked 3D area fighter with 26 unique pokemon and easy to learn two button commands.
or something.
or something.
please let it actually be a more fleshed out Sun/Moon expansion
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
A proper home console Pokemon game would make the Switch impossible to not buy eventually.
I'm not what you would describe as a Pokemon fan and even I've wanted a home console Pokemon game since I was a teenager.
I'm not what you would describe as a Pokemon fan and even I've wanted a home console Pokemon game since I was a teenager.
The whole reason Pokémon hasn't been on a home console is because it loses the portable aspect for no good reason. Thank god for Switch
Alola was extremely small to me and very compacted. No major city at all. I hated the Pokemon distribution in SuMo.
Is there a better thread to discuss Stars?
Anyway, is it likely Nintendo could implement a GO-like augmented reality Pokemon (or other) game on Switch, considering its portability?
For example, an AR Animal Crossing where you walk around your neighbourhood farming fruit and stuff. Although indeed, Pokemon, FE and AC already being on mobile may mean something else will get that sort of treatment.
Anyway, is it likely Nintendo could implement a GO-like augmented reality Pokemon (or other) game on Switch, considering its portability?
For example, an AR Animal Crossing where you walk around your neighbourhood farming fruit and stuff. Although indeed, Pokemon, FE and AC already being on mobile may mean something else will get that sort of treatment.
What performance issues, you get a stable framerate in 1v1 Pokemon battles. That's more than we ever got out of X/Y.
kraspkibble
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I'd be more surprised if there wasn't a Pokemon game for it. The Switch is most likely gonna replace the 3DS not just the Wii U so there needs to be a Pokemon game.
WhiteRabbitEXE
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I suddenly have the urge to play LeafGreen on my GameCube.
Annoying Old Party Man
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The real news is that you can play "THE NBA" on the Switch as well!
Did we ever get any real pokemon game announcements at E3? I have the feeling the pokemon news always breaks in japan first, mostly in magazines and tv shows.
Although I don't follow it that closely so I can be wrong.
Yeah, especially the game is just two months old.
I should have had worded that a bit better. On the Non-New 3DS and 2DS, the systems goes into expanded memory mode and it takes longer for the game to load up for the non-new systems.
It'd be a third version or sequel. It won't be a new generation
Sun & Moon's first proper showcase was at E3 2016. Several new Pokémon and features
ORAS had its first proper reveal at E3 2014. Its boxes had been shown before, as had 5 seconds of footage
XY had a lot of features revealed including the PSS and Fairy-type, as well as a myriad of other Pokémon
Spin-off is a different thing but I do agree that we'll get Virtual Console stuff early on, and the next main game this year
sixteen-bit
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same source as Eurogamer or nah?
This is not text directly from Nintendo. It's possible that GameStop is basing this on information from Nintendo, but it's also possible they're just assuming.
Also, I've seen people comment on the name. Eurogamer reported that Stars is just a codename. I wouldn't take it too seriously.
Also, I've seen people comment on the name. Eurogamer reported that Stars is just a codename. I wouldn't take it too seriously.
TheGhostSix
Neo Member
Did they remove it? I don't see the "Play Nintendo Wherever You Go" section mentioning Skyrim and Pokémon
Yeah I don't see it either .
CrunchyFrog
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Why would they do this when they only just released the modernized OG Red/Blue but a few months ago? I think we'd sooner see a port of HG/SS or a remake of D/Pl/Pt
I hope so because eclipse is just too perfect a name to pass up
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