Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire getting an animated short
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The Pokemon Company has announced a new animated short based on Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire. The short will show a battle between Rayquaza and Deoxys and another look at the 3DS games.
Pokemon fans will be able to watch the animated short alongside the Pokemon: Destiny Deoxys movie on November 16. It will air on BS Japan.
Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire – North American Eon Ticket details
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The Pokemon Company International has shared details about how Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire players in North America will be able to obtain Eon Tickets. Tickets are needed in order to access the Southern Island of the Hoenn region where Trainers can catch Latios.
Serial codes will be handed out to Play! Pokemon organizers and StreetPass communities around the states and will be active on November 21. Those who receive a code can redeem it using the Mystery Gift function in the title menu. You’ll then receive a Wonder Card, which must be redeemed in-game at a Pokemon Center by by speaking to an attendant in blue uniform. The attendant will then issue those Trainers an Eon Ticket.??
Once these steps have been completed, the Eon Ticket can be shared with others via StreetPass. All players will need to activate StreetPass within BuzzNav, which will light up with an icon when an Eon Ticket has been received. After speaking to the same attendant at a Pokemon Center, the Eon Ticket will be yours!
Source: Pokemon Company PR
Japanese Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire promos
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Nintendo Network IDs to deliver some sort of recommendation system next year
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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata brought up the “Super Smash Bros. and Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire Same-Generation Hypothesis” at the company’s financial results briefing last week. Essentially, there is the thought that those who played Super Smash Bros. Melee and Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire back in the day will also be interested in Smash Bros. 3DS and Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire.
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata commented on this further during the Q&A portion of the latest financial briefing and brought up another interesting topic as well. Next year, Nintendo will attempt to launch some sort of feature with Nintendo Network IDs involving “options tailored to individual consumers based on the fact that they’ve played game A and game B, and so the probability they’ll enjoy game C is very high.”
Continue on below for Iwata’s full comments!
English Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire overview trailer
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North American Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire commercial
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Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire – comparisons with the original games
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Another short Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire video (Pokemon Scrap promo)
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A trio of Japanese Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire videos
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Iwata on Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire pre-orders
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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata discussed strong pre-orders sales for Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire during the company’s latest financial results briefing yesterday. Read on below for his comments.
In addition, we have had very strong pre-orders for “Pokémon Omega Ruby” and “Pokémon Alpha Sapphire” to be released around the world in November. As you can see from the slide comparing them with those for “Pokémon X” and “Pokémon Y” released last year, the momentum of pre-orders has been robust regardless of the region.
Many people in the industry would anticipate that however dramatically “Pokémon Omega Ruby” and “Pokémon Alpha Sapphire” have been remade, their sales would be lower than those of “Pokémon X” and “Pokémon Y,” which were completely new titles, but the trend of pre-orders has gone against their expectations so far. In particular, they have been surpassed by far in Europe.
Please let me show you an interesting hypothesis explaining the reason for such strong pre-orders: Those who have enjoyed the “Super Smash Bros.” series and those who were impressed with “Pokémon Ruby” and “Pokémon Sapphire” as the first “Pokémon” title are of the same generation and overlap substantially with each other. We call it the “Hypothesis of the same-generation of “Super Smash Bros.” and “Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire.”
Those who were elementary school students when “Super Smash Bros. Melee,” and “Pokémon Ruby” and “Pokémon Sapphire” were released have grown up and they are now 18 to 25 years old. Our research in each part of the world commonly indicates that consumers between the age of 18 and 25 represent a large percentage of those who purchased “Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS” in the release period. It is approximately 30 percent in Japan, which is twice the overall average of Nintendo 3DS software, and has even reached 50 percent in the U.S. and Europe. This great momentum for the game in the initial stage was supported by this generation.
Thanks to “Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS,” consumers of this generation pay more attention to Nintendo 3DS and are likely to remember enjoying “Pokémon Ruby” and “Pokémon Sapphire.” We think this is why the pre-orders for “Pokémon Omega Ruby” and “Pokémon Alpha Sapphire” have been strong. They are now old enough to pay for their own expenses. They can afford to buy Nintendo 3DS to enjoy both “Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS” and “Pokémon Omega Ruby” and “Pokémon Alpha Sapphire” if they choose, and they might encourage their friends to play it with them too. We therefore see it important to stimulate their latent demand in the year-end sales season.
Taking into account both the trend of pre-orders and the same-generation hypothesis, we anticipate that “Pokémon Omega Ruby” and “Pokémon Alpha Sapphire” to be released next month will have more sales potential than just another remade game in the industry.
