The very reliable leaker who knew all the details about the official press releases said this, it’s so over, they’re pulling a ZA again and going silent on Gen 10 until the next pokemon day
>>59168600Its going to be just as Mid as ZA
>>59168616it wont have online due to champion actually so its gonna be better by default
They delayed it to avoid negro simulator VI.
>even pokemon is afraid of gta 6Grim
>>59168962No one is afraid of the GTA6 slop
>>59168600This was such a bad call. First of all, not releasing on an anniversary year after already giving an extra year between gens was poorly thought out. And then to show off as much as they did was another thoughtless measure, but this is the company that can never seem to get marketing correct.
>>59168600Don't expect WEEEE WAAAAAAH news this year
>>59169087The Switch 2 delay really fucked up the franchise's roadmap and schedule. LZA was supposed to be 2024 but they had to push it back because Nintendo wanted to manufacture and publish LZA as a "best played on Switch 2, so get it on that and skip Switch 1 entirely" title, and they couldn't push back the DLC because they didn't want to disrupt the merchandise, TCG, Horizons, etc. any further (especially seen in Horizons, which lost out on vital opportunities to shill LZA and had to speedrun a lot of things before jumping straight to Mega Dimension shilling).And only having DLC, the shittiest DLC yet, to market for your grand 30th anniversary Pokemon Presents would look absolutely terrible, so they'd still have to reveal WW early as a pre-emptive "CALM DOWN EVERYONE" gesture.
>>59169112Should come up with a second DLC.This company sucks.
>>59168962Their fanbases don't even overlapPokemon is mainly played by people aged between 25 and 35, while GTA is mainly kids between 8 and 18
>>59168600That Ring camera chud meme threw a wrench in the Browt evolution reveal, so they need to wait til the heat is off
>>59169204>That Ring camera chud meme threw a wrench in the Browt evolution revealwhat the fuck are you talking about
>>59169246>he doesn’t know about That Ring camera chud meme
>>59169251what does that have to do with anything pokemon related you schizo
They only revealed it because the Presents would have been even more bleak without the announcement. And leaks were imminent anyway.The teraleakers really put a number in this franchise. Bravo
>>59169195kids and teens try too hard to act and look like grown ups. Adults just want something chill and comfy to enjoy after work.I played regularly Doom when I was 9 until I got traumatized with John Romero's pixelated severed head. Only started playing pokémon at 14
>>59168634It will. Champions is a quick cash in to keep the ip breathing
>>59169281Look at browts eyebrows. It was just a joke
>>59168954>>59168962>GTA>releasing this yearLmao.
>>59168600I've believed this is the case from the moment they said 2027 in the reveal, but who is this schmuck? I don't follow twittard leaker drama, but I do follow the leaks themselves and I've never heard about this guy before.
>>59168600>The very reliable leaker who knew all the details about the official press releases said thisSays who? Literally who is this retard and why should I believe them?and don't just fucking say what they did. Actually post proof of their credibility
>>59169456don't worry anon, I got you
>>59168634it will obviously have online trading and some battling in the style of ZA, for sue.
>>59169087Pokemon doesn't need marketing, it needs quality. More time means they have a chance to to make the game not godawful which is the best possible marketing the series could ever have. That being said they'll probably just squander the extra time by making trash DLC instead of optimizing the damn thing.
I was expecting the exact same thing that happened in 2024 to happen this year; namely that the game they stated would be released the following year would not have any further game news revealed in the current year.Mind, unlike the retarded addicts here who need that shit in their veins yesterday, I expect the game to be released in November next year and not "earliest possible opportunity to release it because baba needs her pogeymans gamez" next year.>>59169790It'll have a new gimmick and be exclusive to Nintendo systems. So VGC '28 will be on cart through Switch 2 to ensure everyone playing has bought a unit, while they run a Pokémon Champions Championship the same year (like GO, TCG and Unite each got their own World Championship that no-one save the invested spergs give a fuck about) to keep the povvos distracted. The fact you can't see that, despite actually seeing what the fuck Champions is only ever going to be's fucking hilarious.
>>59169195even if that were true, they would still be competing for optics. it’s why movies that are completely different genres will sometimes initially fail during weeks with overlapping popular film releases
>>59170047That would be retarded for them to wait that long. There’s plenty of people like me who needed this shit in our veins yesterday. They should just release another half finished game like scarlet and violet.>>59169941Disagree. Pokemon doesn’t need quality. The fact that scat and vommit and sword and shield sold so much is proof of this.
>>59170098Tough shit, they're gonna wait that long. The one glaring issue I see that /vp as a coillective seems to ignore is that unlike the other games in the Teraleak, when WW releases there will have been 3 years passed since Teraleak happened. Which is more than ample time for them to re-write the entire plot and story of the games, keeping the created assets and shit, but otherwise scrubbing the old story and putting in a new one. So that three years could well be needed as part of Game Freak's efforts, but either way there's going to be radio silence until next year regardless.
>>59168600alright i'll expect WW news instead
Until ball guy says anything I won't care
>>59170133Lmao retardWW is pretty much entirely finished by nowThe raeson Gen 10 is releasing in 2027 rather than 2025 as it should have is entirely because of their (retarded) marketing strategy, and has nothing to do with longer developement time
>>59170098if you think pokemon can subsist forever on dogshit games you're mistaken. Nothing is too big to fail, it just takes a really long time for it to fail. Just ask disney, marvel and starwars. All thought too big to fail, all are now dead. Each new pokemon release gets shit on harder and harder as more people get fed up with the state of the franchise. Addicts will eventually kick their addiction if you deprive them long enough, and trash product after trash product isn't hitting the same anymore. People are finally realizing that dream game they've held hope for all this time isn't going to happen. Each time a person finally breaks the habit you can't win them back without changing things.I genuinely think Wind and waves is the last chance for pokemon to keep their place as the world's top brand. If that ends up just like S/V or Z-A, it'll be a blackpill for many. It won't happen overnight of course, the next game will still sell millions, but it'll be notably less. You'll see less people praising it and less criticizing it. The passion both positive and negative will start to dry out as people realize it's over. The cards and merch will sell less, the anime will get less viewers. You'll mention a new pokemon game that just came out to someone and they'll not have heard about it. Just a slow, gradual trickle as the former unstoppable beast becomes a normal IP, then a niche, and eventually fades away. Might take 5 years, 10, or 20, but it'll happen.
>>59170653It feels like they already deserve this cosmic justice after scat and vommit. They should not be able to get away with releasing a game that blatantly unfinished. They need to get punished for a lack of respect for their customers. The fact that it sold as much as it did is insane to me. Especially after sword and shield were already ass and the 3ds era was mediocre
>>59170653>or Z-AIs it actually bad? Picked up this bitch today at Costco 50 burgers for the switch 2 edition
>>59170830NTA but I heard Z-A is the best entry point since it has access to all pokemon so far
>>59168616So better than PLAss?
>>59170830Good chunk of players weren't happy with the Gameplay loop and being restrained to one city after Arceus gave you an entire region to run around in.
>>59168600Cool anniversary year.
>>59170653>if you think pokemon can subsist forever on dogshit games you're mistaken.It absolutely can, it's already been 13 years of dogshit games with no end in sight and no evidence to the contrary. In fact, the worse the games get, the more this retarded fanbase of dents and paypigs buys them to spite the tiny minority of us who want good games. Moreover, Pokemon doesn't even need games at all anymore, merchandise alone is enough to sustain it.
>>59168600>developers listen to criticism and feedback and decide to take their time with the product to polish it>pokefaggoys: "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I NEED MY YEARLY SLOP NOW NOW NOW!"literal goycattle
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>>59170830No horrible but just incredibly bland and boring after the initial novelty of real time combat wears off. It feels like an underbaked indie game that should be 30 dollars that tried to stretch 8 hours of content into 40 hours.
>>59171417>Pokemon doesn't even need games at all anymore, merchandise alone is enough to sustain it.Idiocy. The games may not make the lions share of the money, but they are the spearhead of the entire thing. All the cards, plushies, gimmicks, all revolves around the new pokemon and characters. That's why they push so hard to release the games fast. They need the new games so they can make the new merchandise.It'll start to crack. 13 years is a long time but it's the largest media franchise on earth. Marvel took almost 10 years to kill itself and the shitty movies did big numbers at first until capeshit fans realized the harsh reality that they weren't getting better. Nothing is too big to fail, they just take a very long time to die.
>>59169790This. They still wanna sell that online subscription. It literally MUST have trading because you always need 2 versions to complete the dex. The online pvp will likely be a funmode battle royale like in ZA.
>>59171511>th-th-they'RE GONNA FAIUL1111And if they were doing what Marvel or Star Wars or fucking DISNEY as a whole were doing, like ignoring their actual audience to shill at shithead kids, they'd be in as much trouble as the mouse is with the capeshit and the hamfist they made of Star Wars.But Pokémon's "actual audience" IS the shithead kids that haven't a fucking clue, but buy piggerchu, because it got waved under their noses, just like elderly spergs who ALSO ate up Pikachu when it was waved under her nose 20 fucking years ago. Can't fail to continue to succeed, when you're continuing to brainwash the retard bastard child of today, like they brainwashed the faggots here today squealing it's bad because they stopped shilling at faggot adults for kids again.
I’m still baffled by the fact that the teraleak clearly showed that gen 10 was scheduled for 2026 and all the internal slides and stuff from the teraleak showed that they were targeting 2026; and 2026 is the 30th anni year of pokemon….. so why is the release date now 2027??
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>>59171781Because Nintendo waited a whole year to release Switch 2, to prevent scalpers scalping and stock selling out completely (initial re-stocks of Switch cost them dearly, as they had to air-freight the things out, instead of cheaper slow boats out of china). As a result, they're not releasing the poverty version of the Switch 2 until the proper version's had 2 years to sell, meaning Game Freak can't release until the poverty version releases so kids can get access to Switch 2.
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>>59171781It's like anon said look at champions and pokopia and shit the new strat is to give the flagship games time and push out other stuff to not let the brand die because the SV reception was probably actually harmful to the company. Only they really know and have the statistics but it was probably a lot worse than SS
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>>59171802>SV reception was probably actually harmful to the companyIn what world? SV are the second highest selling pokémon games in general, no matter what people say about them being “harmful” the sales do not reflect that
>>59171802>the 2nd best selling titles in series history are actually bad, because i am upset with them not acknowledging me since I got oldSwitch 2 showed the bulk of the issues with SV was the Switch. In case you missed it, the gwaffixcbabbies have been squeeing about the state of the water in the trailer and the general looks of the thing overall (and much like SV's initial trailer, seems all WW trailer shots came from in-engine). If anything, this is TPC BEGGING Game Freak to lend their name to spin off releases, to make the public give a legitimate fuck about them (2.2m in 4 days was it? for pokopia, making it the fastest selling spin off since Pokémania) or Game Freak using the time they've generated by cutting the NatDex and rehash bullshit from their concerns to further worldbuild their series (teases of new Shellos and possibly Rotom forms for WW).
>>59171821Okay and there's high selling things that end brands all the timeWe have no idea what the actual numbers of the entire IP is or any of the other hundreds of metrics>>59171824Who said I was unhappy with it? There's a lot I don't like but that's every game since XY
>>59171821Manchildren haven't been able to get over the fact the general public aren't poorfags or gwaffixniggers, thus didn't see the breadth and depth of "issues" they experienced playing on a non-official emulator on shit hardware struggling to survive the session.>>59171807Well, if we're going that far back, may as well go the whole hog and say "Since Tajiri first imagined a bug crawling along a game link cable".
>>59171511The games are entire promotion to next gen. People keep forgetting that it's not only the game that made the popular franchise in beginning: it was mostly anime. Now that TV-series was being detoothed, the video game has become only pillar to stand whole franchise that need to be hold to stay.
>>59171824>teases of new ShellosAh yes, the Shellos Norf (F)Sea
>>59170830It looks very badNot as bad as Arceus, but still awful
>>59172291But the waifus are good right? One of the reasons I got was because I recognize canari from porn
>>59168962Nah>Palworld is scheduled to exit early access and officially release version 1.0 in 2026. Developer Pocketpair announced the full launch will feature a massive amount of new content, including major updates, with development focusing on a "huge portion of endgame content" during 2025 ahead of the 2026 release
>>59171511>They need the new games so they can make the new merchandise.No they don't. They can keep selling Charizard cards and Pikachu/Eevee plushies forever at this point. It'd be trivial for Pokemon to transition to a merch-centric franchise like Hello Kitty, they just don't need to when they can make some extra pocket change by shitting out shovelware for retards to buy in droves.
>>59169195Wrong. GTA is played by everyone, young and adults. Pokemon is played by furries only. No human is interested in a scammy franchise like Pokemon except for porn
>>59172536>>59172524>>59172477what did bro mean by this
>>59168600>Twittard screencap thread>The account was made solely to bait Centro>Never ever mentioned before now>"reliable leaker"Did you come here because senpai didn't notice you, or was this an earnest attempt at trolling? Either way, kys
>>59171328This. Gamefreak is legitimately retarded.
>>59169195>Their fanbases don't even overlapMost GTA fans are millennials and late zoomers same as pokemon early zoomers and Gen A dont play games other than fortnite, roblox, and Minecraft >>59171427>developers listen to criticism and feedback and decide to take their time with the product to polish itAnd the sky is green>>59171821the force awakens was the highest grossing star wars movie, both subsequent films flopped dramatically
>>59169603>>59174367>OP doesn't respond to either of theseBilly blown the fuck out once again. Fucking pathetic
>>59168600>no WiWa news at all this year>t-they’re pulling a ZA again and going silent on Gen 10 until the next pokemon day!The huge difference that retards like you and that twitterfag miss is that when ZA was announced, it had ZERO gameplay at all. Winds and Waves are much farther along in development in the pre release schedule in comparison and I'm wiling to bet mid to late Summer is when we'll see another direct. Fall at the latest. There's also zero chance they are missing their fiscal year with a Switch 2 seller like Gen 10. Which means marketing will have to go in full swing sometime in 2026
erm... awkward... https://x.com/DeltaUminotami/status/2044293512439705748
>>59175170>WiWeNEW ACRONYM DROPPED BROS!
