Pokemon press conference to be held shortly, news incoming
Posted on 6 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments
The Pokemon Company has announced that a press conference is about to begin in Japan. News may land as early as 6 PM PT / 9 PM ET / 2 AM in the UK / 3 AM in Europe.
The conference is being held in Tokyo, Japan. There is no live stream as far as we’re aware.
Stay tuned. Note: news will be posted on the main site as it rolls in. This will not be a live blog.
Update: Description changed – Oha Suta to share exciting “shocking” Pokemon news
Posted on 6 years ago by Nick in News | 0 comments
Update: The Oha Suta website has now changed the description of Thursday’s episode to “full of Pokemon information”. This sounds intentionally vague, so we will have to wait and see what this means. Perhaps their intent is to lower expectations since many people are expecting a proper reveal of a Pokemon game on Switch from this.
Original: Oha Suta, a Japanese variety game show, is set to show some pretty “shocking” Pokemon news May 31st. The episode is listed as “a moment a new story begins”. This kind of seems to want to play on the idea of electric Pokemon, but we’ll have to wait and see.
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The Pokemon Company generated $80.8 million during the last fiscal year
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The Pokemon Company has reported its financial results for the period ending February 28, 2018. During the last fiscal year, net profits sat at $80.8 million.
The previous fiscal year saw a $145.6 million profit, which was the highest in the company’s history. Pokemon GO as well as Pokemon Sun/Moon were the big contributors at the time. Pokemon GO and Pokemon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon were still positives this time around, but had less of an impact on net profit.
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New Pokemon figures shown off at Mega Hobby Expo
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The Mega Hobby Expo Spring 2018 event was held in Japan today. At the show, a few upcoming Pokemon figures were on display.
The full lineup is as follows:
Unused Pokemon shown in manga about creator Satoshi Tajiri
Posted on 6 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments
A new manga about the life of Pokemon creator Satoshi Tajiri and Game Freak will soon be released in Japan. Game Freak staffer James Turner tweeted out some excerpts early, which show some interesting things pertaining to the franchise.
Some have believed that we would never get a good look at documentation for the original Pokemon games due to it being lost to time or never having exited. However, one of the manga panels actually has a look at an internal Game Freak poll from way back in the day.
Rumor: Domains registered for pokemonletsgopikachu.com and pokemonletsgoeevee.com
Posted on 6 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Rumors, Switch | 0 comments
Some interesting information has come in hot on the heels of speculation about the first Pokemon entry on Switch.
pokemonletsgopikachu.com, along with pokemonletsgoeevee.com, have been registered as website domains. Both were just established yesterday – May 15.
New Pokemon The Movie: Everyone’s Story image shows off Zerora
Posted on 6 years ago by Andrew in General Nintendo, News | 0 comments
A new image was revealed today for Pokemon The Movie: Everyone’s Story and it reveals that the newest Mythical Pokemon Zerora will be in the movie. It’s most likely Zerora will play an important part in the movie like the previous Pokemon movies with other Mythical Pokemon in them.
Rumor: Pokemon Switch reveal happening soon, unconfirmed details
Posted on 6 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Rumors, Switch | 0 comments
It’s been a busy start to the week for Nintendo rumors. In the latest round of speculation, Pokemon is the focus.
Nintendo and The Pokemon Company are supposedly gearing up for a reveal very soon. Emily Rogers, who has been both correct and somewhat off with past rumors in the past, claims that an announcement will be happening by the end of the month. Rogers brings up Pokemon GO as she suggests fans consider what that mobile game could mean for the future of the series. The name and branding may also “raise a few eyebrows.”
Pokemon designers talk Pikachu – why it was a “rare character” in-game, canned evolution called Gorochu, more
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Siliconera has translated more comments from the new interview with Pokemon illustrators / designers Ken Sugimori, Atsuko Nishida, and Koji Nishino on Yomiuri. The three spoke about Pikachu in-depth, including why it was more of a “rare character” to find, a canned evolution called Gorochu, and more.
Here are a few excerpts:
Pokemon designers on the creation of Pikachu, inspired by a squirrel
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Yomiuri Shimbun has gained new insight about the creation of Pikachu after speaking to some of the original game’s developers, including illustrators Atsuko Nishida and Ken Sugimori.
All those years ago, Nishida was asked to create a “cute monster” that met two conditions. In addition to it being an “electric type” with electric attacks, it also needed to have two stages of evolution.
