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Pokémon Director Says To Keep An Eye On Pokémon Smash

By Ishaan . February 20, 2012 . 9:30am

Pokémon Director Says To Keep An Eye On Pokémon Smash

Pokémon Black/White director, Junichi Masuda, recently attended a Q&A on February 18th, where he was asked by a fan when we would see the next game in the series after Black/White.

 

To this, Masuda replied that, while he couldn’t give a proper reply, fans should keep an eye on Pokémon Smash, the weekly television show that airs on Sundays in Japan.

 

Later, Masuda followed up on Twitter, repeating that fans should watch out for Pokémon Smash, and that if you’re unable to do so, keep an eye on his Twitter instead.

 

The weekend came and went, and Serebii.net reports that no new Pokémon game news was announced during Sunday’s episode of Pokémon Smash. Perhaps we’ll see the announcement during another upcoming episode instead?


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  • http://twitter.com/JezzSan Jezzy

    I wanna see a HD Pokemon game on the Wii U, with access to all continents, all Pokemons, and online battles. But who am I kidding. It’s probably gonna be Pokemon Rust Red and Corrosion Green or something like that on the 3DS.

    • EDGEucator

      This x100.
      That would get me back into the Pokemon games the day they do something similar to that.
      (I’m referring to the Wii U Pokemon idea btw.)

    • http://www.facebook.com/shawn.dickenson1 Shawn SomethingOtaku Dickenson

      Rumor:Pokemon Planet for the wii-u has all 6 regions (orange island) but its just a rumor 

      • OverlordZetta

        Orange Islands would never be included in any official video game, as it was anime only, and anyone who seriously wants more than one or two regions in a video game needs to think about the concequences of that.

        To accomplish two regions in GSC, one had to be virtually empty. Kanto was a shell of its former self – there was nothing there. Even in the grand remake that HGSS supposedly was, the ghost region that is Kanto was still basically empty. For all actual content it contained, you could have put those eight extra gym leaders in one big building with eight floors, and then expanded on Johto, which suffered terribly, having to be miniscule just so Kanto could be included. This was also not fixed in the remakes – there were some things added, sure, but all the original areas still retained their small length. 

        Think about this: Include three regions, and that means the eighth gym leader of the first will end around level 33 at most for there to be any challenge in the next two. Four, and you’re looking at somehow stuffing an entire region in below 25 levels.

        Guys, before you suggest “POKEMON GAME WITH ALL THE REGIONS,” think about it for a minute. It would probably be the worst Pokemon game in the history of Pokemon games.

        • http://www.facebook.com/shawn.dickenson1 Shawn SomethingOtaku Dickenson

          they maybe can pull it off people been wanting that for years 

          • OverlordZetta

            There’s a reason “people” aren’t out there actually making games. Leave it to the people that actually know what they’re doing.

      • http://www.siliconera.com Ishaan

        This is crazy talk. :P

      • Jacob Denton

        Pokemon rumors are a universal constant- they will never go away.
        Best to disregard everything not from official sources and serebii.

  • http://twitter.com/Paradox_me Paradox me

    It’d be cool to see a fully 3D Pokemon game on the 3DS. 3D as in polygonal models and such, not just sprites making use of stereoscopic 3D.

    The 3DS should be plenty powerful to pull that off well, though I doubt it’ll happen.

    • AuraGuyChris

      I wonder if it can handle over 500 3D models, though.

      • Gaardus

        It won’t need to show them all at once.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jordan-Strachan/100001236343832 Jordan Strachan

          hes more referring to the the size of 500 models on a 3DS card (most 3DS games have 2GB cards right now?)

          • SirRichard

            http://gonintendo.com/?p=145313 

            Apparently, the 3DS’ cartridges can go up to 8GB. Given how popular Pokémon is, manufacturing expenses can probably be safely ignored to a degree.

          • Jacob Denton

            I wouldn’t be surprised to see them pull out a bigger card for Pokemon.

            I would much prefer higher-quality sprites though, I think. A la Disgaea.

    • James Beatty

      Look at the pokedex 3D. That’s how the game should look. It makes sense seeing as they don’t have to redo all the models

  • http://www.facebook.com/shawn.dickenson1 Shawn SomethingOtaku Dickenson

    Pokémon Smash is it going to be like Bakugan game where you fight using pokemon in a Arcade style game play? or is it going to be like Pokemon rumble….

  • http://www.facebook.com/Asch91 Mohsin Faiq

    pokemon xd sequel PLEASE

  • http://twitter.com/VXLbeast VXLbeast

    Full Pokemon Adventure on Wii U or GTFO.

  • http://twitter.com/sheleigha Shel

    Since the question was specifically for “a sequel for B/W” like the usual Yellow, Crystal, Emerald, Platinum, I think this points out to Pokemon Grey being announced soon!

  • OverlordZetta

    I’m going to guess Gray/Grey/Rainbow/Zebra will probably be on the way then. Should be interesting.

    It’s like the weeks before B/W was announced all over again…

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/Kamek20xxExtra?feature=mhee Michael Stevens

    New Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Trozei, Snap, or Ranger for the 3DS would be wonderful. I’ve been waiting forever for another one of those. These are some really fun spin-offs IMO. Either them or another full Pokemon adventure game on a console. I find this very possible because obviously the consoles are more powerful than the handhelds, so why in heavens not? So many ideas that we, the Pokemon fans, can give to you, the people of Nintendo, that can really boast your status up sky high, whether reviews are good or not.

    • OverlordZetta

      They’ve got their hands full with the new spin-off, presumably, one I really hope will expand into a series of its own.

      As for “Why not?” well, here’s my question: “Why?” Pokemon is a, primarily, handheld-based franchise, and was invented in part to sell them in the first place. Moving them off, especially now of all times when they NEED to sell their handheld, would be a bad move for everyone, especially when they have a new handheld they have yet to make a real Pokemon game for.

      • http://www.youtube.com/user/Kamek20xxExtra?feature=mhee Michael Stevens

        I see. Thank you for the information. 

  • SirRichard

    I’m going to be terrified of playing the next one, honestly. I’ll take two steps into the first grass patch and watch the player character get mauled by fifty small yappy dogs.

    Seriously, lads, turn down the encounter rate! That goes for the rivals as well; I already know I’m awesome, stop making me prove it by caving in the faces of their beloved teams every two routes!

  • luckgandor

    About the last paragraph in the article… I think Serebii was reporting was that the preview for next weekend’s Pokemon Smash episode makes no mention of the announcement (probably because it’s going to be an announcement about an announcement).

  • takopako

    ive been waiting forever for the coliseum-like game equivalent on the wii for b/w…where has that been? why cant i use my beloved Cottonee in full 3d?!? or at least in stereoscopic 3d with some sort of transfer system…

    • Jeremy Sheer

      its never going to happen. Quit holding your breath…….those games are crap anyway…..

  • VenerableSage

    I know that Pokemon is mainly geared towards young kids, but it’s getting to the point where I can’t take the series seriously any longer. The spin-offs (with the exception of a couple) aren’t “real” Pokemon games and all of the main games in the series follow the exact same procedure every single time: catch a team of monsters, beat 8 leaders, beat Elite Four, then proceed to fill the National Dex (or alternatively, make a team to do silly competitive battling).

    Maybe it’s just because I’m older and wiser than I was when I played Red Version, but is it too much to ask for a new game in the series that actually has more thought put into it beyond forcing the artist to try and come up with a new set of 100+ monster designs (something that, overall, hasn’t been done well over the years) for the new game? How about something that doesn’t follow the same plot outline as every other game in the main series? A plot that doesn’t have anything to do with a Pokemon League? Something slightly more mature in nature?

    At this point, I’m sick and tired of seeing basically the same game with minor tweaks and improvements made over time. The series needs a welcome breath of fresh air and ideas beyond new regions and new monsters each time.

    • luckgandor

       If the 5th gen could be called an “inventive rebirth” for the series, I don’t think we’re ever going to get a core title that will be refreshing (which is sad because there’s so much untapped potential).

      • VenerableSage

        Personally, I don’t really see B/W as an “inventive rebirth.” Fundamentally, it still follows the same outline as the rest; at least it’s a little more fleshed out in places, though. An “inventive rebirth” would be a game that keeps the familiar mechanics (expanding on them incrementally as they have continued to do so in each generation) but takes everything else in a new direction–something that the player looks at and *doesn’t* get the feeling that they’ve done it before.

        • luckgandor

          I don’t think anyone really sees it this way, but that’s what it was called when it was announced.  The deja-vu feeling I got when I played my copy of White was the reason I returned it before beating the 3rd gym.

          • VenerableSage

            I think it being described as such is just Nintendo/Game Freak’s way of saying “Hey, there are only new Pokemon until you beat the game!” Granted, that’s kind of what the fans wanted (to some extent – I’m of the opinion that most fans would rather not even see monsters from other regions in Gen V), but the deja vu issue is still the main problem. While fans do want something collectively new, I think most of us would be fine with an interspersing of Pokemon from different regions as that region’s Local Dex makeup… if the game actually opened up the access to catching monsters more freely. Having to wait until Blackthorn to use a Skarmory if I want to include one in my team is annoying; I’m sure that everyone else would agree if only for the reason that it would mean seeing less “Rattata” encounters in the routes outside of the starting town.

            The deja vu issue is, as I mentioned, still the big problem. I can’t be bothered to buy one game let alone two or three in one release set if I’ve already played a similar game before and see nothing that really differentiates them. And, like you and I, I’m sure that many other fans probably feel the same way. Granted, as each new game comes out, younger fans come into the series for the first time, so the deja vu issue is partially offset (and it doesn’t really give Nintendo much of a reason to change how they milk their cash cow).

    • OverlordZetta

      “The spin-offs (with the exception of a couple) aren’t “real” Pokemon games”

      Ignoring the rest of this, but that’s… sort of the entire point of a spin-off.

      • VenerableSage

        I didn’t want to completely generalize my statement about the repeated procedures. As such, I was basically just setting the spin-offs aside from the discussion (barring the few, such as Colosseum, that fit into the pattern more than others). Limiting my points to the main entries in the series, that is.

  • http://twitter.com/followthereader Matt Davidson

    I’m gonna buy it. I know I’m gonna buy it. I can’t help myself.

    Unless it’s an incredibly stupid idea. Like randomly mashing a feudal strategy game full of Pokemon.

    Oh wait.

  • Belphybear

    If it’s going to be a 6th gen Pokemon game (which I doubt), I hope they make it a bit more non-linear when going from gym to gym. And the geography in Black and White felt really artificial to me; the initial route felt really fixed since I couldn’t explore the east side. And it felt forgettable compared to the 1st, 2nd and to some extent the 3rd and 4th generation maps.

    • OverlordZetta

      I doubt they’re near done with fifth gen, especially with all the new info and whatnot that’s come out recently, not to mention stuff STILL left unfinished from those games. I expect we’ll be seeing another entry in B/W, possibly remakes of some kind again, and THEN maybe a sixth gen title.

      • Belphybear

        True true, although I’m sort of concerned about a remake of the third generation games; I always felt that it was lacking in a number of areas (the secret base thing was awesome though, I have no idea why they removed that in the following games), maybe I was still disappointed with how small the game was compared to G/S/C? Or maybe it was the new Pokemon?

        • OverlordZetta

          Hoenn is actually bigger than Kanto and Johto combined, and as for new Pokemon, that’s up to personal taste I guess.

          • Belphybear

            It is? I guess I’m still disappointed that I couldn’t go back to the old regions (pretty childish, I know).

          • Monkey_T

            I’d love to go back to previous regions, but I’m kind of afraid that they’ll be lacking in content just like Kanto in G/S/C.

  • CrimsonalCore

    I wouldn’t trust it… First shocking announcement is Pokepark 2. Quite shocking, isn’t it? Then there’s Samurai Warriors Pokemon crossover. Of course it’s an SRPG, but seem to be interesting. I doubt the new Pokemon game would be announce on next week, but I hope I’m wrong.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=512740433 Zubi Khan

      hopefully it’s a game in the main series not a spin off

  • SuigetsuHiramura

    Pokemon on the Wii U would be dandy.  Just no Battle Revolution 2, please (-__-)

  • theworldofnoboundries

    Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness 2 plizzzzz.

    Or Pokemon rule the world, u play as team rocket and tries to rule Kanto and Johto will be nice lol.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kevin-Miranda-Salazar/643669155 Kevin Miranda Salazar

    I want a new Mystery Dungeon game or a R/S/E Remake or a new Pokemon Snap game with AR functions! Oh the posibilities! :D

  • Some1onearth

    Pokemon XD or Colessium style for 3DS, or Wii/Wii U, either way is good for me as I really liked Gale of Darkness XD for gamecube…When Battle Revolution came out I was really disappointed in what I saw was available.

    WHERE WERE THE MINIGAMES / WHERE WAS THE STORY MODE!? T_T

    A new game with both minigames (even if it’s just the old ones) and story mode would be nice…

  • ShadowWolf

    how about that Nobunaga Pokemon game, bring that **** over here.

    taking over the world with pokemon………its like being Team Rocket except your not a complete joke.

  • DuskSharkEX

    I’d like to see some sort of update to Pokedex 3D which’ll have models of the previous generations…or a game using them.

    • SetzerGabbiani

      It’s going to happen at some point.  I like the idea of Pokedex 3D being the container for all Pokemon so they don’t have to be stored on the game cartridge. Maybe they will speed up battles in this manner and add additional animations for all characters.

  • http://twitter.com/AnthonyBeja Anthony

    Since it was already Saturday/Sunday at the interview chances are he meant this weekend. 

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