The Pokémon Company, Niantic, Inc., and Nintendo Co., Ltd. today announced their collaboration on a new project for mobile devices called Pokémon GO. This ground breaking mobile game will encourage fans to search far and wide in the real world to discover Pokémon. Pokémon GO will be available for download at no charge on the App Store and Google Play in 2016.
In the past, the Pokémon video game series has used real world locations like the Hokkaido and Kanto regions of Japan, as well as New York and Paris, as inspiration for its fantasy settings. In Pokémon GO, players will be able to catch, trade, and battle in the real world by utilizing location information. Pokémon GO’s gameplay experience goes beyond what appears on screen as players explore their neighborhoods, communities and the world they live in to discover Pokémon alongside friends and other players. Junichi Masuda, game director of the Pokémon video game series at GAME FREAK inc. will be contributing to the project. His involvement will ensure that the fun of Pokémon makes its way into Pokémon GO, while developing new types of gameplay and thinking of ways to connect this project with the main series of Pokémon video games. In-app purchases will be available in Pokémon GO.
“Our challenge was to develop a great game for smart phone devices that expressed the core values of Pokémon,” said Tsunekazu Ishihara, president and CEO of The Pokémon Company. “Pokémon GO is the answer to that challenge.”
“Pokémon GO is a wonderful combination of Niantic’s real world gaming platform and one of the most beloved franchises in popular culture,” said John Hanke, founder and CEO of Niantic, Inc. “Our partnership with The Pokémon Company and Nintendo is an exciting step forward in real-world gaming and using technology to help players discover the world and people around them.”
Players will be able to enhance their Pokémon GO experience even when they are looking away from their smartphones by using a unique device called Pokémon GO Plus. By pressing a button on Pokémon GO Plus, simple in-game actions like catching a Pokémon can be performed. Developed and manufactured by Nintendo Co., Ltd., Pokémon GO Plus will connect to smartphones via Bluetooth and by flashing and vibrating, will notify players about events like the appearance of a Pokémon nearby.
Pokémon GO is being developed by Niantic, Inc. Originally founded by Google Earth co-creator John Hanke as a start-up within Google, Niantic is known for creating Ingress, the augmented reality mobile game which utilizes GPS technology to fuel a sci-fi story encompassing the entire world. Ingress currently has 12 million downloads worldwide.
Source: PR
I always envisioned this to happen at some point in the future but I think 2016 is too soon. I want glasses and holograms (in the glasses) and the whole deal, but technology hasn’t reached that level yet.
Consider this a step in the right direction, if this does well they will be more inclined to go that route
I suppose. I’m just afraid it won’t do well and they’ll abandon it. Oh well I guess we’ll have to wait and see. This does sound fun though :)
Ingress is successful as hell. People go ape shit with it, making pictures with the GPS nodes and traveling to different COUNTRIES just to help their faction. I’m sure it will be fine.
Virtual reality in real life really isn’t plausible, people would walk into traffic and shit. Maybe with Google glasses, but you would have to pause and step to the side in public in order to catch a Pokemon when it pops up.
Execute yourself rat tbh
neeeerrrrrd!
I am gunna look like a complete jackass and love every second of it
Cool man. I will download it, but it sounds pretty boring and has in app purchases.
But it is a nice hybrid of Pokemon Snap and The Pokewalker from HGSS.
This is just the beginning…Nintendo is going to turn into a mobile gaming company once they realise that all their hardcore fans don’t care about them anymore. For anyone hoping that Nintendo keeps making consoles and doesn’t go third party….I’m going to enjoy drinking your delicious salty tears!
LOL, all the Nintendo games announced as of now are made by studios they collaborate now, while every division of them makes console/handheld games.
The only title that is collaboration are 2 cross titles ( pokken and FEXSMT) and star fox…that it
Hyrule Warriors. All their moblie titles. So that leaves federation force, pikmin 3/4, dktf, smash bros, and that lame Mario 3d world. So almost half of all their games. Look how few games they have developed after so many years.
You showed your ass when you said lame Mario 3D world. That game is Stella, not like knack and fabless.
F=ma.
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A suspect a spike in their market shares will be big news… Kudos to Nintendo and Niantic.
This is fucking cool.
And you’re a fucking tool!
It rhymes!!😝
I wonder if you’re the same Anonymous who just said “Mew two is mah waifu!” in the reply to the comment below this one.
Oh no! They found us! Ruuuuuunnnnn!!!!
This is why mewtwo hates you humans, poor mewtwo getting jumped like that.
Mew two is mah waifu!
Yeah it looked pretty brutal. But it won’t be as bad as the people turning against each other… cause there’s only one Mewtwo, who’s gonna get it?
Favorite part of the trailer is when the guy with the Snorlax has the “wtf, who’s attacking me” face lol.
That bitch on the boat was so excited to murder an innocent napping Snorlax.
Sounds like a shit way to keep people’s faces shoved into their phones.
I like the concept of the game/app, but I feel like people may lose interest in a week or so. I’ll be downloading this just to see how it works.
Maybe it will be the kind of thing that people check each time they go to a new place.
I imagine some locations will have exclusive Pokemon.
The ad looks great, hopefully the AP itself can live up to that.
Also, notice how it was only Gen 1 monsters? I seriously think for the 20th anniversary we’re going back and getting a reboot. And it makes sense — what series just adds and adds and adds endlessly? It can’t go on forever.
We need a Blue/Red remake. They could easily switch up the paths, add enough to keep it fresh and new but memorable for those that started with the first versions, at least over here.
Gimme my Squirtle.
Agreed. My generation started with FR/LG, it was all over my school for years and I would LOVE to see a remake of Kanto. (I played the game boy games too, but that was years later)
Fuck you people die
This site is ran by children….like you!
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He abandoned Nintendo for Pc
you know i gonna say the company really giving us a big thing for next year this is gonna be awsome you know if pokemon company really do things good then maybe this will be awsome for next year on there 20th anniversary.
There will probably be a lot of in-app purchases. Regardless, I’m still getting it.
Also, it’d be funny if you had to go to South Africa just to get Mew, lol.
Hope it will not go well, abandon it, make a real game, to hell with mobile-crap
Please count me into that closed beta.
Thanks
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