Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Pokémon Day 2026 Predictions - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: February 23, 2026

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That's Michael Jordan's number, Andy. 2026. It really is. Don't forget. Never forget. Never forget. Never forget, all right? I'm one of your host, Greg Miller,

alongside Forbes 30 under 30 a.k.a. New York Game Awards nominated, aka biceps poppy. Just give a full flex. Hit him with the full. Damn. Damn. Damn. You kidding me right now. It's Blessing Eddie O.eer Jr. What's up, Greg? Also, great haircut.

Thank you. I came in. Bless, when you come in, Bless always has his headphones on. And he'll often say, so. And then if you start talking to him, you realize, oh, he can't hear me. He's just, he gave me a courtesy sup. Yeah. So I started to when I stopped myself. I pivoted to Roger. But great haircut. I appreciate it. Yeah, I'm looks maxing today.

Oh, wow. Yeah, I had to put on the necklace. Nice, okay. Somebody's got you now that Tim's gone. Yeah. All right. We're down so many. Gone but not forgotten.

Gone but not forgotten. Of course, next to you is the Hispanic heartthrop, Texas treat. Latino heat, clicking heads and ripping it into shreds. Globe shot and head shot. He shot the three point shooting. Root and tootin. I here's the problem. I, somebody in the chat months ago had said,

I don't like it that it goes three point shooting root and two. I wanted to go root and tootin 3. Me too. You want me to do that too? Yeah. Well, I listen to the chat, not you. Well, now I don't know what to do. Now I don't know what to do.

I think it's got a better rhythm. Root and tootin, three point shooting. Root and two and three point shooting. Yeah. Because do you do adjective before, like a verb type of thing? Or like an action? No, I just like the way it sounds. It's just like the way it fits.

Three point shooting, root and two. No. Route and two, three point shooting. Yeah. Root and two and three point shooting. Yeah. I get that for you. from Twitch.

I'm sorry, it's a nice rifle for Twitch.com. Andy Cortez. Hello, good morning. How are you? I'm great. I got my Mountain Dew zeros. Yeah.

Kevin walked in. It was confusing. Kevin left to get a battery. And he came back in with a bag full of Mountain Dew zeros and a Red Bull in his hand open. And then he was his Red Bull. He gave you the Mountain Dews without really saying anything.

Then began to answer me and turn the Red Bull upside down. I had to stop. from doing that. He didn't know he was doing it. Oh, he didn't know he was distracted. Oh, gotcha. I had a problem. I was running through. You know what I mean? Mm-hmm. How many Red Bull or how many Mountain Dews did you get? I got four. They're just hard of fine. Because Diage Mountain Dew has... So is that... Did you get him DoorDash and Kevin called the DoorDash guy? Yes. Yes. Diedmont dues have caffeine in him. Or, sorry, they have 10 calories. Okay. Why is it, why is it diet and if you got 10

10 calories? I mean, 10 still is less than whatever. But it's like, but it's still, it breaks the fast. Oh. Oh, is that how this works? Yeah. What's the fast can't be above? You just can't have zero calories. Yeah, zero calories. Not even 10. Just come back to coffee, Andy. Not even 10.

Well, maybe now that it's starting, maybe now that it's not 45 degrees. Sure. But I like that ice coffee. Yeah. I do like that ice coffee. Also, is this a new Spur shirt? I've had it for a month. I haven't seen you wear it that often.

It's usually like underneath a hoodie. I like that. I like that. Go Spurs, go. Yeah, I feel bad about that, too. You know, I'm in my crew neck sweatshirt era. I wear a lot of new shirts. never take off the, you know, you never see him anymore.

And then I'm like, well, why am I wearing this shirt to begin with? You know what I mean? Why not just buy a 10 pack for $9 a Costco white t-shirts? Wear those, you know? Might as well? Start saving money rather spend money. That's a crazy thing to do. That's why. I would then get it to be regular.

Inevitably, I get to the point where I need to take it off because I'm hot. And then I'm just in a white t-shirt. That's weird. That's weird. That is the reason, like, I never wear this shirt because I feel like 75% of time I'm either wearing a hoodie or I'm wearing a jacket or whatever. And so I'm like, I want, if I'm wearing my rock star shirt, I want the rock star thing to be seen. Sure. So I had to like dig this out of the back of my closet.

If I rarely wear it. When I choose to wear it's like I'm not going to wear. We'll get some Pokemon eventually. Yeah. So now for your t-shirts, you hang in the closet or they have the shelf in the closet? I hang them. I hang it. Anything I'm wearing outside, I hang.

But if I, all my inside clothes, I fold. Pajamas and stuff, too. Yeah. Okay. Is that crazy? You fold all your clothes? Yeah, I don't like the neck's getting stretched. Oh, we've talked about it.

You can have a big stretched out neck. I got enough problems going on in my life. I feel like I'm not stretching out the neck when I do when I hang things. Like is it just in the process of hanging or is it like the hangers? I just in general the natural elastic starts to go the more hanged. Rapid ass, snor relax, gangar, golding. Also, I want to apologize from my comments earlier. Apparently chatting for me that looks maxing is apparently an in-self thing.

I didn't know that. I just thought it meant that I was trying to look good. That's where like it comes from that community a little bit. Yeah. Is that like when I say anything maxing? Because I thought maxing was just like, Yeah, min-maxing, right? Yeah.

That's his video. I thought it was just, yeah, I was min-maxing, but, like, for my looks. There's a new, there's a new wave. It's similar to, like, you know, Kevin trying to say gooning and meaning something else, but it's like that, that word has already been kind of ruined and taken over and taken over. That's crazy. Yeah. Damn. Chat, ask yourself.

I apologize. Are the folks over at mid-max in cells because of this? Something about it. If you're watching live, of course, be part of this show by super chatting in right now. YouTube.com slash kind of funny games with your predictions. for the Pokemon presents this Friday the 30th anniversary. We'll get to all that. So far,

Tom Pritchard has Super Chat and said, a lot of unaccounted for shirts. That's dot, dot, dot, dot. You know what's going on all those shirts out there? Remember, of course, we couldn't do this about our producers over on Patreon.com slash kind of funny. So thank you, Carl Jacobson, so makeup buster and Delaney this on twining.

For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be. Topic of the show. Gentlemen, we're there. It's happening this Friday. Pokemon presents the annual celebration of Pokemon Day, which of course celebrates the original Japanese release of Pokemon red and green in 1996, meaning this is the 30th anniversary of Pokemon.

I'm sure to many of you, this isn't surprising news. Maybe you're not even a Pokemon fan because last week, Nintendo leaked fire red and leaf green, right, right, right? No, they announced it. They just put it on the store without a trailer and then without a trailer. Put on the store at 1030. at night. Conveniently coming up

the same day as the presents definitely not planned for a shadow drop or anything. You know, we got to tee it up so they know what to expect it. It really drove a lot of eyes to the direct.

The kids are up watching an adult swim anyway. They'll be up on the store and they'll see the thing. Is adult swim still up? Is that still a thing? Chess? Absolutely.

Oh, thank God. I just got to assume that there's somebody at Nintendo just going like, I just didn't think anybody would notice. I wasn't sure. It's one of those.

you just take that box wrong. You just check that one of them boxes wrong. You don't catch that. Oh yeah, we've all been there within a barger. In there. It sucks for that. But we are heading into it Friday,

the 30th anniversary of Pokemon, Pokemon Day. It will be a 6 a.m. broadcast. Yes, we will be actually, actually live for it. I will be here as kind of funny. He's number one Pokemon fan.

And then the old man, the one who knows the ancient texts. Tim Gettys will be here as well. He's coming out of paternity leave retirement to come in in, and react to it because we believe theoretically it's going to be that big of a deal. Right, Andy?

Yeah, I think so. I think that, I mean, we're talking about the first big Nintendo direct slash Pokemon presents where it's like, okay, this is this is the one where you got to really, really show off the goods. Yeah. This is theoretically not going to be

across platform Pokemon. Eretically. game. Yeah. Yeah. We'll talk about that a little bit. You don't think it'll be cross-gen. You don't think it'll be on Switch one.

Big. You're crazy. Big stuff. You're nuts. No. Blessing. You got to sell the Switch to. Are you expecting me?

You got to sell Pokemon. You got to sell the Switch too. Pokemon sell. Well, I'm excited. I'm excited. Are you expecting big things? Here, because this is the one.

This is the first time ever that we've showed up to a Pokemon day and I'm excited. I'm juice. I'm a fan. Yeah. And so before it's always been, you guys get up early. You do it. I come into work. Tim's upset.

There's a thumbnail you guys looking disappointed. I'm like, well, what did you expect? What did you expect? And that's what's going to happen this time, I think. And I, but I still, I don't give a fuck.

I'm expecting great things. Okay. There's a good chance I'll be disappointed, but it's the 30th anniversary. Right. It's a big Pokemon year. We expect Gen 10 this year. And I think along with that,

I think it was, I think it was Kit and Krista, who are friends of the show. Shout out, you know, the formerly of Nintendo. They do their show. They talk about a lot of the time, the inner workings of Nintendo.

And one of the things they mentioned recently was that in Nintendo they don't really make a big thing of anniversaries like usually it's a if we happen to have

something happening then maybe we'll tie it to the anniversary but we're not like trying to reshuffle things to line up with an anniversary Pokemon however they are celebratory of things

right Pokemon will make a thing out of an anniversary and with this being the 30th one I'm expecting big things with it being Gen 10 too I think those are just the marriage of two big momentous occasions for Pokemon that

I want great things to happen. I think even the leak of fire red and leaf green, already we're off to a great start. But here's my question, before we dive into actual all the announcements and things we think and yaddi yada. Do you think your enjoyment of Friday will be hampered because you know about the shadow drop?

Because I feel like you could have a, not basic, but a, hey, we're talking about, we're teasing at the very least Gen 10. We're talking about Pokemon Go's 10th anniversary. There's going to be, I think there's a lot of great stuff to put in here, right? But let's say none of it was that exciting. But then it would have been, this is all because of red, and this is all because of green here, and then the buildup of here it is,

it is out today. I think that would have been like spiking the football a bit on what could be an 8 out of 10 Pokemon Day, then takes it to that 9 out of 10. And now I worry about you know that is coming. They do it, probably lead with it now, if they even have the ability to go through and do that. And then it's just going to be like, okay, well, fuck, we knew that one thing. Andy, you're shaking your head, no.

You don't. I mean, it doesn't do a whole lot for me, especially because of what the prices are for the games. 20 bucks for each one. And the fact that these aren't games that have, that are, like, stuck on an architecture, like the cell processor. We're not dealing with a metal gear solid force. Yeah. If this was one of those sort of situations, like maybe possibly, but. there have been a lot of different ways to play these games over the years.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, illegally or legally. Allegedly. These haven't, like, been some titles that have just been lost the time where the whole, you know, community is just, like, desperate to get these games again. And it's like, why haven't they remade them? Where have they been?

You know, it's like, we've had a lot of canto. We've had a lot of this region. We've had a lot of, you know, revisiting our nostalgia. so it wouldn't have done that much for me, I would say. But that's me personally. And I think I tend to agree with that. I don't think this would have been a monumental shadow drop. If it was a new remake, then yes.

But the fact that this is a re-release of a remake from 20 years ago, I just don't think it's that big of a deal. And honestly, like, I don't think the price is that bad for it. For $20, I would buy this and play it. But also, I am somebody who has that intense nostalgia for Canto. I don't mind going back to Canto because honestly I played Pokemon Blue the original probably like 20 times

as a kid right like I was obsessed with just replaying this game over and over and over again and I've allegedly played Fire Red through different means over the years but I don't think they've re-released it in any official way maybe in like virtual console or something in Wii you but I don't even know if that's true so like to have another official way to play this

I think is cool my one thing I guess my two things to kind of go back on that a little bit is that this could have been in the game Boy advanced Nintendo online thing. Of course. But of course, like, it's something that you can sell. They know it's sellable, so they're going to do it, whatever. My other thing is that am I able, and I don't know if you guys talked about this when this was leaked, am I able to transfer the Pokemon that I capture in this to, like,

Pokemon home and have that lit? Like, can I bring those Pokemon? Yes. Into Pokemon champions and stuff like that? So, chat, keep me honest on this one, because this is one of the things I was reading about when we did the news is yes but later i believe what's happening is it does have hokema is going to have pokem on stuff but it doesn't launch chad am i right or wrong all this if it doesn't launch with it that's it's wndd right there you're saying it's a strong maybe it'll eventually come that's what i had heard from other people i was reading it better have it by the time

pomem champions comes out is all i'm gonna say that's fair enough because i want to take those Pokemon i'm going to champions i want to compete okay correct says some people thank you so i got it nailed it crushed it uh yeah you know we can start there, yeah, and continue on with the conversation here of fire red, leaf, green, right? Because outside of that one news of it, we haven't had the chance to have an open discussion at this table, I can't fucking wait. Like, I'm so excited for it. You know, as somebody who has come late to the generation, when I play these games, I love these games, but I obviously understand for you guys who have played so many of them, being like, oh, there's nothing new under the sun

kind of deal here. But it's more for me, the idea that, first off, I love that aesthetic. Like, what a great look to a game. Oh, yeah. But then the idea of hearing Tim and when I talk about the game, he talks about how the originals were so much better with your rival. And it was this idea and this, like,

there wasn't like, don't be wrong, like a dark story, but there was more to it of like, not just everybody like, I love battling, let's battling.

Oh, they beat me. That's great. Yeah. I'm so, like, it goes back to what I was going to talk about, but talked about

on something else this week last week. Um, you know, Animal Crossing, how I miss that edge. Everything's got the rounded edges now. It's such a, both current Pokemon games and current Animal Crossing games. I feel like are so like,

hunky dory, let's all be friends about it. I love the idea of just a little bit of, not much, but a little bit of a corner of the teeth there, yeah. I was going to say, I don't know if you're going to get

like much story. I hear you. Oh, not story. Just, I mean, the thing of like, I'm your fucking rival, right? Yeah.

I think that you'll, you'll get. And I'm also excited for people like you, like you, because I, in my opinion, this is the best way to play Pokemon,

red and blue, right? Somebody for me who I played the originals. I played this. I played, Let's Go Pikachu and Evie, and I know you played Let's Go. I did, let's go Evie, yeah. Yes. I think for me, I would say this is like the best way to go back to it because this is,

it still maintains that feeling of pixel art, top down, you're doing that, but then, yes, the aesthetic is great and also has the learnings of gold and Ruby and Sapphire in those games. And so I think you're getting the best of here with Pokemon Fire, red, and leaf green. So yeah, I mean, it's such a great art style, right? And so, yeah, to be able to jump back into that, but like then, it's my usual story here with it of like it's so exciting that when I you know the day this leaked

at night I was up late playing redacted when the next morning Ben jumped into bed and woke up me and Jen once we all got our heads on straight that was the first thing I told him and Jen because I knew they'd both be stoked and we went out there and watched the trailer and Jen's like I'm gonna I'm coming back and she's played it like you guys a million times

I'm like are you doing red or green she's like I'm gonna do red I'm like I'll do green and then Ben wants to play on both of them at the same time with us so it's like this whole thing of like again I think what the power of Pokemon really is is that generational. Everybody can be excited for it once and see what's going to happen with it.

So I can't wait for Friday. As I've talked about, we imagine everything's going to line up and work flawlessly. Tim and I will react, of course, to the thing live. We will then go into your post-Gamescast breakdown.

And then after that, I'm going to stream Pokemon Leaf Green. I'm going to start my adventure with him at my side until we go to Games daily at 10 o'clock, hopefully two hours. I love that. A little bit more of that of there. But beyond there,

I want to talk about predictions for what we're going to get there. So I'm going to go through the bullet points just to say what I think is in the ether. And then we can go from there, jump in wherever we want to, okay? So Gen 10, I think we have to talk about. And I'll say these are bullet points. We'll start. Gen 10, Pokemon, Pocopia, fire red, leaf green, Pokemon Go, which I already said is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.

Pokemon champions, which I feel like there's still a lot to talk about and we haven't heard a lot about. right? Yeah. Pokemon worlds imminently coming obviously San Francisco this summer. A Pokemon theme park with Universal, right? They've talked about, in January, they came out and talked about there. We'll talk about it there. I put Pokemon sleep on there because I always like them doing some stupid thing for that. Of course, the trading card game itself and then trading card game Pocket. Yep. Oh, Bear, are you still in there every day with the pocket? I'm still in the trenches for TCT Pocket. Let me tell you, I almost have 12,000 cards. Oh, my God. And I've a lot of cards. I've gotten Master Rank for the last

four seasons of the battle season. So that's where I'm at mentally all the time. If I can get Bair into Magic the Gathering, oh, but again, you bring this up every time I bring up TCG Pocket. TCG Pocket is like the, you know, the safe place where I can have this kind of experience and not have a bunch of cards physically in my house. Like, what if, like, Magic Arena, you know, you play it on your phone, and what if it took over your life. What if

you already have that? What if you were handcuffed to this game and you couldn't put it down because addiction? I already have that place. You could also be stressed by incoming UPS and FedEx deliveries. That where is it? It got delivered but it's not here. Where is it? Scratching your skin. Check the auto body

shops. Run up and down run up and down the box. Check the camera. Where is the deliveries at? I also have shows question mark, movies question mark. But again, even taking those off the docket, I think everything I just said, you should get to some degree, which is wild when you compare it. Pokemon Day, uh, 2025, 24 and 23.

I'd like to read through as well, all right. These are all from IGN. I'm just reading their subhead titles. Okay. So 25 went like this. Pokemon Legends, ZA gets a ton of new details and a late 2025 release window. Then multiplayer battle focus Pokemon champions revealed for Nintendo Switch iOS and Android.

Then Pokemon TCG Pocket to get Arceus themed, uh, I think it's Archaeus. I forgot. This is the thing where the audience always gets mad when I go one way or the other with it. Try and fit light theme booster pack on February 28th. New bullet point. New episodes of Pokemon concierge will arrive on Netflix in September.

New bullet point. Scarlet and Violet to feature mass outbreaks of red, green, and blue-colored Pokemon and more. New bullet point. Pokemon goes, Unova tour is kicking off on March 1st. Pokemon Unite to add

blah blah, blah. Pokemon Cafe remix to get new items in adorable outfits. Pokemon Masters. X to get two new master sync parts pairs. That's a lot right there, right? But I think the things we went through at the top of the show, pretty cool. More cool than that.

I think that's the thing is, Pokemon is such a world of things. And so when we think about Pokemon Day, it's not going to be this video game focused. Like you go through, you talk about the cards, you talk about the shows, you talk about the theme park. Yeah. Like it is a celebration of everything going on in the world of Pokemon, including Pokemon worlds. And so the things that you, the bullet points that you are originally listed,

I think are pretty comprehensive. And then, yeah, I think we'll just get updates on things. I was looking, I don't know if you read both the things yet, or if there's another one for you to read, but I was looking at the one from this last July. And, like, one of the things I saw here, I'm like, I forgot this is a thing. It was Pokemon Tales, the Misadventures of Surfetched.

You're right. What the fuck? Yeah. And so, like, there's going to be random shit that's announced where it's like, oh, all right, you're doing a short that's inclamation or something of thing. You know, we're going to get some of those. And we're also going to get my guy, oh, I forget his name.

There's like a really. well-dressed man that works at Pokemon. Yeah, that Hanson dude with the white hair. With the white hair, really handsome. Can we find that guy? He just always looks like he's the the dude that you speak to in the Pokemon games. Like he's one of those

like a professor. Yeah, the principal or whatever. I mean, he's like the head I think. Headmaster. It's like one of the main dudes. Yeah. Barrett's searching for you. I'm looking for him. So then let's start with the elephant in the room. Pokemon Gen 10. Of course, it has been quite a

while since scarlet and violet, right? Four years, I believe it is, when usually we're on a three-year cycle here. And honestly, this is his tame as fit. And it's still a good fit, you know? It's great. Takato Utsonomiya. Crushed. Good look at man.

Blessing. Yes. Gen 10. Yes. How big are you dreaming? Um, I mean, dreaming big, expecting not as big. Small. Expecting small. Based off of Gen 9 and the trash fire that was that, I just went

a solid passing grade here. I want a game that's going to look good and run well. And I think run well is not a crazy thing because we're on Switch 2 now. I know Andy mentions this thing could be Switch 2 exclusive. I don't necessarily expect that, but at the very

least I think it's going to run well on Switch 2 because Pokemon's EA Rainwell on Switch 2 and so and Ranwell on Switch 1 as well. Oh yeah, there you go. And Pokemon Scarlet and Violet released on Switch 2 and Rainwell, if I remember correctly. So that already I have as like my bar. And also,

optimization. I don't want bugs. That's another thing we got to talk about is like bugs and random shit happening. That's breaking my game. My character fucking stretching all over the place. I need that stuff to be honed in. Was that ever an issue in recent? In Scarlet and Violet, yeah. Scarlet and Violet had, I don't know if you remember.

I remember the frame rate being trash. I mean, I just had awful performance. I remember, chat, correct me if I'm misremembering this. I feel like Scarlet and Violet, you would see YouTube videos of like character stretching. and like just weird crazy There's a lot of weird stuff going on that people were experiencing

Yeah game crashing I went and rewatched IGN's review of it And even in the star of the review They show the first thing they showed Was the game crashing And so I needed that I need that stuff fixed Which is like bare minimum

type stuff Beyond that I'm gonna be surprised and delighted Yeah Barrett has footage here Of some of the That's just cool Yeah This is part of the game I want to be surprised and delighted

I want a fun region I mean this happens in Bethesic games all the time. I mean, that's a good point. There's a dude walking through the camera. Yeah, stuff like this. I remember seeing a lot of people post things like this. Man, I don't have any of that.

That's just ditto. That's a ditto. You thought it was a ditto. I mean, to be fair, I also didn't get like a crazy kind of that. Maybe like once or twice I would have some weird shit happen, but. So then, while we're here to having this conversation, to go back to what Andy was saying, do you think this is a cross-Jan title? Yes, 100%.

Why? Because Pokemon is a very high-selling franchise. And I think it's, Pokemon company, I think is separate enough from just Nintendo to where they look at copy sold and revenue

as being a driver separate from trying to move hardware. I think the point of Pokemon is to move software more so than anything because the software ripples out into everything else of like cards and shows

and everything else. So I think for them, they look at that being more priority than trying to push Switch 2 as a console. So I don't think you're wrong. I hope you're wrong.

I hope it's Switch 2 exclusive. I hope that blah blah. I think I know the answer on what I would argue, but I want to put you on the spot here. Why is Pocopia Switch 2 exclusive? Oh, that's a really good question. I don't know. I mean, I would genuinely say to that.

I don't know. I can get into my head canon strategy, which I don't think they're thinking that deeply about it. But like, you know, Switch 1 already has Animal Crossing. Like Switch 2, we can be the first there as far as this cozy Nintendo. like management, yeah,

life sim experience. I would say that. But also I would say that Pokemon, new gens are going to just are a higher seller. Like that's immediately the sales position

that would be higher. If I was arguing this in a debate club, right, like we do every day here on these shows live all day long, that would be me as well

where a spin-off is not a gen. Yeah. A Gen 10 is even if it was Gen 9 or Gen 11, right, not a big number. That is such a bigger deal than a spin-off life sim. I, again, hope that they're going, yes, it is, and we see with every

Pokemon game we've ever launched that if we launch it exclusively on Switch 2, it will sell gangbusters for the next decade. We don't need to worry about the return on investment right now and this benefits Nintendo more. To bring in the real world stuff of this, uh, right, Nintendo kind of paying attention to the memory loss situation, thinking about the ramifications for the next couple of years. it takes me back to a lot of, you know, we have to remember, you know, there's a lot of cross-gen titles coming out for PlayStation, right?

God of War, Ragnarok, a few other titles early on in the PS5 generation. And I think that was beneficial for them, especially when we had, like, that big crisis of, like, resources, like, not getting where they needed to in the, in the middle of COVID, right? to help software sales because people still had a PS4 but it was really hard to get a PS5 for a while. I do wonder if they worry about the accessibility of Switch 2

with memory loss coined by one Andy Cortez. And I do see more of blessing side of them wanting that to get everywhere because again the launch of a new generation is important to sell that software. My counter to that counter would be

is, but his memory lost too far down the timeline because this would have been a decision you would have made a long time ago, right? That if we're going to switch to exclusive, awesome, we'll sell a lot of units. And then by the time we get here, it's already too late. Yeah, this isn't necessarily something you could just go, well, we could just scale back right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, to give two arguments in favor of my point and then a major argument against my point.

Yeah. The ones in favor, I, Pokemon, Scarlet, and Violet sold 10 million in like three days. It was the fastest selling first party exclusive game, I think of all time. And so I think you look at numbers like that and go, well, 100 million people have Switch 1s. You know, we want to be able to replicate that type of like monumental sales on like first week.

Not that it has to be first week, but like I think when you have that install base, you can push that. I think also people are throwing out there the history of Pokemon. Pokemon is usually a console exclusive thing. I think this is the first gen where it makes more sense. Like you're talking about the jump from 3DS to Switch 1. Like, of course that wasn't going to be a cross-launch.

When you're talking about, you know, DS to 3DS or Game Boy Advance, like, none of that would have really made sense in a way that I think this generation, it makes the most sense. The thing that's against what I'm saying is that people in chatter informing that there have been leaks. And the leaks are saying that it's a switch to exclusive. Yeah, I know. And we play with that information knowing that, but I also don't know how credible those have been. I've seen that title and all this other stuff, but I think it's interesting to discusses. This is a good take. Sorry.

One final counterpoint to your counterpoint, Gregi. While the memory loss situation is more recent, they're them trying to figure out the headwinds of, you know, our current administration and, you know, seeing that for the last couple years. I think that could also be a factor and maybe not deciding this year because of memory loss, but thinking about it a year and a half ago, you know. Bandar, S and Super Chat and says,

with DLC for Gen 10 coming in 2027 and no new game until 28, Switch 2 only Pokemon will have a long sales tale that will make up for no Switch 1. I mean, it'll definitely have a long sale. I think that's, we talk about memory loss, we talk about tariff, and stuff like that is such a

in the moment right now thing where even though it'll take a while to catch up, Switch 2 is going to be here a long time and I do think they see that. But I also understand I want of your money right away, but back for me. I'm also just trying to speak it into 100%. Try to speak into a distance. No, that's my thing.

is like, I set my expectations that it'll be everywhere because of money, and I'll be incredibly excited if it's Switch 2, we committed to this. If it's Switch 2 exclusive, how much better do we think this game looks than the previous generation? Big question. Well, it's just, it'll definitely just not be hell. Well, it all comes on to just how sped up they were during development. Because, you know, the stuff that they pulled off with Pokemon Z-A and the, complaints that people had of like these walls are just flat-ass p and g textures there's no

polygons like you know on the the trim of the building or whatever the hell it's all just texture texture work the complaints there don't have anything to do with scaling back for search one because you could have still done a lot more to make that game look better and still have it run the same on switch one it all just comes down to how quick are their deadlines and how quicker their turnarounds. Now, without, with the switch to out of the picture, if you're developing without that in mind,

you could still do a lot more environmental-wise with lighting and with shadows and things like that and not, and that also slows down. I think of anything, it also helps out with development overall because

if you're only, you know, developing for one console, you're not having to worry about optimizing for the other thing as well. And so that definitely adds back, adds more to the development like timeline, but unless, until we get like a fucking deep dive

documentary as to how these games are made, we'll never know or be able to predict how they do things over there. The documentary is going to look like, you ever see the behind the scenes of South Park where, yeah, because South Park's that he made in real time. Seven days to air. Yeah, seven days to air. Yeah. I feel like that's

Pokemon, like the for a game freak of like, yeah. Yo, we got six months to make this thing, bro. And like, granted, whenever that documentary comes out, it will not be official or authorized. It will be just like guerrilla camera footage of, you know, undercover hidden cameras and stuff. Because I just don't, I, whatever they're doing over there, development-wise,

has got to be just the most rushed crunch stuff of all time, like every year, every year. I need, if you are listening or watching this and you run a comedy sketch channel, I need you to seal that idea and like run with it. Yeah. Of like, you know, the behind the scenes of them making Pokemon scarlet and like being crunched on time and all that stuff. Because yeah, no, that, it strikes me as like comedic levels of shit.

Like we do not have time to make this. Oh, it doesn't run well. It's shippable. Just get it out the door. We got a few weeks. The whole city's on one cylinder. You know, like Z.A. level. One circle.

Yeah. Just do it. Yeah. So then in this Gen 10 conversation blessing is you dream. Are you dreaming big enough that they'll be voiceover? Oh man, I wish No, I'm not But like, I mean, if I'm dreaming, yes

If I'm realistically Trying to measure my expectations, no I just don't I don't see it I think I'll believe it when I see it That's the thing is I don't expect it Until they actually put out a game That has voice acting

But With the timeline that they're on with Pokemon I just don't believe That they're able to make it happen Who about you? No shot no shot that they do this. And I'm at the point now where it's like,

I don't know if it'll ever happen. Wow. I just think that that time is come and gone and in the same way that I don't ever expect Link to speak in a Zelda game, I don't ever expect voice acting in Pokemon games. And it's unfortunate that we've been conditioned to feel that way, or I've been conditioned to feel that way.

No, as everybody has, but I think, you know what I mean? That's the thing. Yeah, I'm right there with you guys of like, I dream of it, but I can't expect it. And like, of course, being kind of funny, he's number one Pokemon fan. I'm being interviewed left and right for this 30th anniversary. And an article over on one more catch dot site went live today,

where I have this quote where I'm talking about it. And I'm saying everything we're saying, right? It's a fool's aired, but my hope is that it competes with modern turn-based RPGs, right? Coming off of a V-O, sure, but even Monster Hunter Stories, the three, the demo I did, right? And like, just the way that you take it for granted, like every other game does turn-based battles of like,

here comes your fucking Rathene, it's, slamming in, there's all these cutscenes in color and sound effects or whatever. And then you jump to Pokemon. It's just like the most silent fucking game in the world. There's these amazing things happen. Like as I wrote, if this,

if this one doesn't matter, I doubt will ever see a major move in the mainline series. I'm like, this has been glacial. And that's what's going to be interesting for me going back to where it all began, granted a remake of it, but going back to where it all began

to be like, how much does this feel like I'm just dropped into the same game? I'm already playing 30 years later. We got to talk about the fact that they help Greg to do the quote for kind of funny for the Pokemon. Number one Pokemon fan. I don't even know that.

He is the number one Pokemon fan, bless. Yeah, but I wrote my other one for the other side right before this and send it up. Another site? Multiple sites are asking you about Pokemon. That's right. Multiple people are reaching out to it. There's a new reality here, all right?

You can go be fighting game Poppy. You can be Perry Poppy. I'm the one out in the one out here buying. I was born into this. I remember when they aired episode one of Pokemon the anime. Did you sleep with Armourouge last night? I did. He had a bad dream.

It's me, Armourou. You two. We're hanging out in the bed. You remember when the ho in the first episode was flying, he was like, what's that? And then we wouldn't know for another generation. Were you there? They were just dropping hints on the right.

That ain't right. It's the new generation, all right? Clearly. Boy, is the new generation of Pokemon fan. Where would you guys want the region to be based? Like if you just had to like take a guess or put out just a dream, a dream scenario. of where they're...

Well, this is where it gets interesting of how hard are they leaning into 30th, right? Mm-hmm. When they were doing all this and drawing this up and getting to where it was, they were like, oh,

Gen 10 is going to be the 30th because I think then you go back to Canto. Oh my God. Can you imagine? I think it makes perfect sense of like, in like, so in this many years have passed, this is what it is,

yada, yada, yada. But like, to the way they did even, even as not being a, not knowing the ancient texts, not knowing the source material. when I was playing ZA and they're calling in all this old stuff and I was like wait Tim is this

and he's like oh my god you don't even understand it's a sequel to this not a sequel it's like oh that's really fucking cool people showing up talking about time lapse shit where it's like damn I can walk in a new Pokemon fan play

all this shit and enjoy it but then meet interesting characters I'm like wait what how was this tied to that wait how did you know about this guy it's fucking cool so we could just go around the world and see what sort of what voids

there are right? Sure. Canto, Joto, and Hoan are all Japan. Sano is Hokkaido, Japan. Unova is New York City. Palos is France. Alola's Hawaii.

Galar is the UK. And Pal dea is Spain. So I'm thinking like, maybe Australia? Oh, interesting. Based on certain leaks, though, I've seen what things have been leaked. And I'm like, okay, I wish it was Australia still. See, I wrote down to Egypt.

Oh, that would be on. I think there's so much iconography that is recognizable from Egyptian culture that you can easily pull that into Pokemon designs and go crazy with them. I guess we have Persian. Put Kangis Khan on the cover for Australia. Okay. I like that. Sure. The legendary Kangas Khan.

And you know what? Fuck it. I'm feeling generous. Throw New Zealand in there too. Wow. Yeah. They get tossed in as well. Come to modern day America.

We ain't put them in balls anymore. They're in cages. is what it is over here. Tricky Caparodin said, I just need Gen 10 to fight back a little bit. The last few games have been so easy that I feel like I'm playing them on autopilot and not getting to know the Pokemon.

And this is another complaint as a new person coming in that I had where I got laughed at by all of you, but I fucking stand by it. I did a Greg way when I had gone back to Violet and was playing that. I'm having a great time.

And I was talking about, it might have even been the DLC, but like I was lots of hours into Pokemon Violet when I was like I did a Greg where I'm like man I'm having trouble with this battle it's hard because it was the first time the game ever actually challenged me to remember or do anything where everything else has been I go in there I slam into them then I look at the thing

I'm like are the super effective use that like I didn't for the longest time and people thought I was crazy when I said I didn't pay attention to the types because it just doesn't matter in modern Pokemon I feel like where you here's your starter and you start leveling that motherfucker up, and then he's just killing everything, just everything. And then eventually you meet somebody who's like, okay, cycling, what do I need, yada, yada, but that's so late in the game. But I feel like it strikes me when I talk to Jen, and mainly

it's Ben, when he goes, Mommy, what's what, what's this week to that? And she goes and gives him the whole fucking dissertation of how it is in the breakdown of this. And it's like, I've just never had to consume the media that way. And I know so much of it is the show, which I get from watching the show. But it's also the games where it's just like, modern games, I feel like It's just, for the most part, isn't challenging until it is. I wish experience share was less extreme. Oh, that's crazy. It's like, it's too much.

Dial it back by like 15%, 20%, maybe. You want to grind? I don't, I just want to feel like I worked for my jabroney-ass dude that I, that I just found a little while ago. And suddenly he's six levels behind my starter. I'm like, bam, like I didn't have to do jack shit for. you, huh? That's fair. That's fair. I like that. Like, I didn't really, you didn't have to work for it. You just got here and now you're... You know what? I, well, I, I agree. I'm not saying I want to

go completely. At first, I at first, I like buckled because I remember the, I remember the pre-experienced share days. But, you know, I think dialing back, I don't want to gone completely. I think experience share works for RPGs with like already like set casts where you only have like eight party members, but in a game where you have like infinite amount of, uh, doze in your box? Yeah, and like wanting to feel that investment. I do think there's a little bit of like XP share, you know, diluting down your investment in your team. I like finding a lower level dude and going,

I can't wait to work you up. Yes. I want to like get to know your moves and like figure you. To the point where, you know, a lot of that is the doom Twitter meme of, you know, you control the buttons you press. But I often just forget that I even have to work you up because you're my start is level 40 and now you're already at 34.

Like damn, I didn't really have to do anything for you, you know? One here before the ad break. Rye Beard Art says, I just want Gen 10 to have an actual art style, like a prettier Legends arseous, but let's be real, it won't. That's another thing of going when I fell in love and then went back,

you know, playing so much Violet, even Z-A, I would say, in jumping back to Shield. I was like, oh, fuck, this is pretty. looks. I mean, it looked shitty out of Switch, too. It's like muddy, but it's like, damn, you had an art style here that I really fucking like. Yeah, yeah.

I agree about Pokemon Sword and Shield. And I think once we got out of the like DS 3DS, like, you know, needing to account for, all right, we got pixel art. We got, you know, trying to make this work for the 3DS. Let's try to make it cute. Let's try to make it work. We, as we gotten further into the Switch era, we definitely lost some of that. And I wonder how much that comes back to the crunch time in which they had to put this

thing out to where they're not able to consider something. a bit more, you know, dialed in as far as art style. I, I, I, I 100% agree. I would love to see them. It doesn't have to be that dynamic. Just pick a style. Bring back the Let's Go style, man. We've been, you know, recipes, Tim.

We love him. We miss him. We'll be hearing from very soon, hopefully. But, like, the Let's Go board. The Let's Go style is kind of what I want from this. And if we could get the let's go style with, you know, a bit more up-resed or

whatever with whatever power the Switch 2 offers, I'd be super happy with that. I just, it, it was the, like, following up on the vision of the 3DS games to me. Yeah, yeah, I think so. I just, I really just love the shading and the color work that they're, that they're doing here. And a lot of that has to do with being limited by the Switch. And, you know, just like when we look at older games and what they had to do with what they or given, like, that's kind of we're seeing a lot of the work of what

the limitations are on the Switch 1 hardware. But it's still like just such an appealing, cute style, and I want to go back to that. The great PXM Lord 8342 says, never been more excited for the announcement while at the same time dreading the discourse afterwards.

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What's up? It's Tim Geddes. I miss y'all so very, very much, but I have three Pokemon Day predictions for you. First off, the Hopium 1 voice acting in the Gen 10 trailer. It's not too much to ask for it, but somehow it really, really is. But hey, fingers crossed that we get that. The one

that I'm going to say is definitely a slam dunk prediction for me personally is that the coolest looking starter is going to be the grass one. Grass types are like my least favorite type, so that just feels like it's just something against me in the air. So expect the grass one

be the coolest looking design. And then my final one, this is just the gut-feeling prediction that, you know, starting to bother me a little bit. Is Gen 10 going to be on the Switch one as well? Is Pokemon really going to put its foot down as being, hey, we're going to be the system seller for the Switch 2? Will Nintendo force that? Or are they going to be like, yo, we want to be on the $150 million, whatever it was,

switches? I don't know. We'll see. We miss him. I don't like that he sent you that. I don't like that he sent you that Should have sent it to me so I can make sure he didn't go on the air You know

What do we need of? Block him One I'll throw out there For a soundtrack I want Toby Fox to do even more of the music That'd be awesome Toby Foxx He does like a few tracks here and there

In Pokemon games Or at least he has done that recently He even did music for I think the game was called Little Town Hero It might have changed to just town I forget what they called it But he did music for that as well Game Freak seems to like partnering with him

And Toby Fox always He puts out the bangers he's one of my favorite video game composers so i'd like to hear more from him in the build-ups of this and you know the hype going i've been reading a lot of different other site predictions and the one thing i think that's i've seen that i thought was interesting was them scuttle budding a little bit of if it doesn't come out this year that we just what if we just got a teaser for gen 10 at this one and it's a 2027 game i mean that would make me honestly really happy I would love for them to delay a Pokemon game once

and take more time on it. Like, like ZA just came out, it felt like. And it's that thing where ZA's so recent, Pocopia is next month on the, I haven't on my thing, I don't have to guess,

the fifth. And then Pokemon Champions is coming sometime this year. So even if you took out Zia, we're talking that's the third game this year is going to be Gen 10. And in GTA year? Right. I mean, one of my predictions was that it'll come out on November 13.

exactly one week before GTA 6. I don't think they give a fuck about GTA with Pokemon. Sure, sure, sure, fair enough. But also, I think you guys make really good points as far as how much Pokemon we've gotten recently, especially with Pocopia coming up. I'd be super happy about it. I mean, I would probably get way too

unrealistically happy about what they can do with the extra time. And, like, I would get way too stoked about, wow, can you imagine with extra development time and then I would probably end up being disappointed so maybe I don't want that. Maybe I just wanted to come out. Who knows?

knows. Moving on to my next bullet point I have on here, of course, Pocopia, March 5th. It's got to be there on this thing to celebrate, remind you, and get you to go buy it or whatever. Do you think it's just a trailer? Do you think it's... Demo available now? Oh, that'd be fun.

Yeah, demo, a deeper dive into this weird... I think we'll for sure get a deep... You've played it. Yeah, and I think... Animal Crossing meets Dragon Quest Builders meets Minecraft. Yeah, Minecraft. Yeah, I think there's much...

to be talked about with Pokemon Pokopia. I could easily see them deep diving into some more of the mechanics that maybe they let Press get hands on on, but people haven't actually gotten to really experience as much. I can see them breaking down some of like, you know, when I talk about, all right, cool, my,

the ditto that you're playing as can adopt different abilities from different Pokemon that he meets and also, you know, you can recreate habitats of Pokemon to draw them in and like, you know, that collection aspect of it already I'm like, man, this is really cool. Like I really like It seems deep.

It seems deep and I feel like we barely scratched the surface of what's there. And to the point of what we've been talking so much with, oh, is it Switch one, Switch, too? Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is the weekend where I saw my algorithms infected with people mad that it's not coming to Switch. These people who are, this is it.

I got to go buy a Switch too. Of course, chats pointing it out. We do know tomorrow there is a tree house from Nintendo. That is Pocopia and the stuff for Mario Wonder. What is the Baybell? Bell Bell Park. That's a good call.

They'll have more there, but I think you still have to put it in the Pokemon direct. I wonder, you know, Pokemon as a violet guy is always so good with, hey, here's this code to go download to go get the thing. Violet. I'm sorry, what I'm sorry, I'm sorry. As a violent man. You know what I mean? I would be surprised if they did something in there of like a code to redeem. Maybe you're right.

A demo would be great, obviously, to go. I mean, I honestly could see this getting the most time at the thing. I guess, well, with the tree house happening tomorrow, maybe. Maybe that does take that spot. But I feel like this is, aside from a possible Gen 10, this would be the biggest Pokemon thing coming out this year. I get really excited about the possibility of the future of the game, where at launch we get whatever Pokemon types that help you out with certain things.

And there's such a cool playground of play with of a year from now or eight months from now, whatever, DLC drops. And it's now we're adding fairy type Pokemon that allow you to do this now with the world. and this is how you interact with fairy types and now here's what dark Pokemon do, you know? Yeah, yeah. To kind of like, I think it'd be a really neat way to kind of continue to interact

with whatever playground they're building for us. You talk about DLC, are we going to see DLC for Zah there? We had in the mega dimension stuff drop already, and I'm a little out of my wheelhouse because for me, as a violet guy, obviously there was two pieces of DLC there, right? And it was a big deal, but they'd been announced ahead of time. Whereas, of course, with Pokemon Zia,

they said, hey, we're doing the mega dimension thing before they even released, it's out. Do we get something else here for that? That's a game I feel is so recent. You do support in some way. Again, maybe it is a code or something you're dropping that we go install to get whatever. That's where you guys thought about.

Yeah, I would just have to look back. Like, I'm just trying to think of how many DLCs were there for prior, for Archaeus or, like I. Yeah, yeah, good point. I wouldn't see a large, like, massive, this is a huge DLC drop, but I could definitely see a download code for a new thing that's available and it not being this

gigantic hullabaloo, you know? Can I throw out like a handful of predictions? Oh, I'd love it, please. I think with us talking about 30th anniversary, I expect this. My prediction would be that this is the biggest Pokemon day yet. And so I think it will get a handful of new games.

At least I'm predicting a handful of new games. I think you could get a new Pokemon pinball. Okay. Pokemon pinball was a big deal during the, I believe, GBA era of Pokemon. A new Pokemon snap, I think, could be really neat. I think we just, how, I know,

it was like three or four years ago. Times a flat circle, yeah, so I know. Yeah, and I thought you didn't set the world on fire. It didn't. Yeah, but does that ever stop them? I feel like they, like trying weird things. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, they love doing that as well. And then I write here, a new Pokemon mini game collection

akin to the ones in Pokemon Stadium, but it'll have some type of monkeys, Paul. Like, it'll be mobile exclusive or something like that. Okay, okay, okay. Man, I'm just, I'm thinking bigger. And I'm thinking, it's just an announcement with a logo treatment. But for several years in development, we've been working on the Pokemon online, massive multiplayer video game. Wow.

It's called Pokemon World. And it, I don't, I guess maybe a handful of the different regions, but it's there, switch to we are making an online video game. the MMO that you've always been talking about. There have already been rumors, but it's like there hasn't been anything super concrete yet. Yeah. But I think that we don't get a glimpse of it. We don't even see,

we just get a logo. Similar to what we got with the, like the, was the winning waves thing a leak? That was leak. They never officially confirmed it? No. Okay.

Wind and waves? That's the rumor title of the Gen 10. For Gen 10, yeah. Oh. I think we get a logo. I think we just get like a, and for the future. we don't have anything to share with you right now,

but here's what we've been doing for the last several years. And it's big MMO, big, like, big blowout. I love it. We'll have more to say in the future. I would, what do you think's working on it? Blue Point. I don't even know if they... Pokemon Blue Point.

I would have no idea with how many different sections. Nintendo's like, make it in six months. Yeah. No, I just, I think this thing's been in development for many a year, or at least in, in, you know, production, pre-production. Yeah. He says Bandai Namco, which Bandai's partnered with Nintendo on a lot of those bigger projects before, so that makes sense.

That'd be really cool. I would love something like that. It feels, I mean, it's the dream, you know? It's the dream. It feels on Nintendo-like, but I guess it does feel a little bit Pokemon company, like, you know, weird way. Just for a company that makes any and every kind of spinoff that they can. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Right. And like a company that is also not afraid to try to lean into those trends that are happening. Like Pokemon Unite is the biggest, biggest example of, oh, mobos are taking off. All right, let's try with Pokemon and see what we can do. And they made it happen. And people love Pokemon Unite. So Pokemon MMO, the only thing that I think would hold it back for me is like the amount of commitment that I know they understand it would take. And maybe the fear of that commitment.

But it would be cool. God, it would be the dream. My dream. My dream, fire red, leaf green are not the only throwback titles we get for 2026. I think we get gold and silver as well. But I think, and I think they announced that on Friday, but I think, you know, fire red, leaf green coming out today, golden silver. Sol silver, heart gold? I think so.

Because there have been other developers who have been able to figure out, like, kind of like reconfiguring that like two screens. experience. So I don't think it would be that hard to port to switch to, right? And so I think maybe we get that sometime in summer. That'd be cool. Yeah, one of my predictions that I wrote down last week before we delayed the episode was the Pokemon, Fire Red, and Leaf Green thing, and then they announced it. But under that, I had as well, Pokemon, like regular Pokemon, red and blue and regular Pokemon gold and silver get released on Nintendo online. But part of my prediction was that those would be the ones that would be out today, and then Fire Red and Leaf Green would be later, but already that's out the window.

Yeah, a lot of super chats in there about similar things of dropping, you know, older Pokemon games. Kabab says Jen's 1 through 3 released on the e-shop across the year, but not DS onward because of the touch controls. Despite any, or they say, despite Castlevania Dominus Collection solving it. You know, I would love to see. What's that?

Nintendo loves giving us old looks at hardware, looks at old hardware. And I would love to see similar to what they've done with you know the classics re-releases of their consoles or whatever Virtual Boy I would love to see like an $80

probably wouldn't be that would probably be like 140 yeah like classic Game Boy with the cartridges that with the red blue and yellow cartridges that don't do anything they're not even games it's just like they're for decoration

but it's like this plays Pokemon. It is just an emulator handheld thing. We're just reselling the old Gameboy. We redid it to where it's like just running an emulation shit inside of it. But I want to just see that like thing come back. That or like a Game Boy color. Yeah, that would be such a good idea because I would buy the shit out of it. Yeah.

Like maybe not for $140. But is they able to get that out under $100? Oh my God. Yeah. $99.99. 99. 99. 99.

Like I'll buy a fake Gameboy that plays actual. Yeah. games. Kevo says my head in the cloud's predictions is we get old Pokemon games on the e-shop every month leading into Gen 10. We may end up with gens 1 through 7 playable on Switch.

That'd be crazy. That's a pie in the sky version of my thing. I think at best we get bites of the first two gens. That would be awesome. I want to release it for Pokemon champions. I was getting there, yeah. Yeah, I'm weirdly looking forward to it.

I know somebody earlier in chat said, Blessing playing that. But like, I was such a Pokemon Stadium kid, and I know this is not Pokemon Stadium. I know this is probably more akin to Pokemon Battle Revolution for the Wii, which I also played, and I dropped that very quickly. But can I read the synopsis in case people, I know you've come this far?

You probably do know. But just in case, battle with Pokemon, including the Mega-Evolve Pokemon, like Mega Dragonite, against other players in Pokemon Champions game, the same game that will be used for the Pokemon World Championship in 2026. These single and double battles use familiar mechanics from previous Pokemon

games such as Pokemon types, abilities, and moves, enabling the rich and varied battle strategies you may already know and love. Compete and ranked battles against players from all over the world or try casual battles for some easygoing fun. You can also have private battles with you and your friends and family. Recruit Pokemon to join your team and train them to hone their skills. Before you venture into the world of Pokemon battles, try finding Pokemon to fight alongside you.

Once per day, you can recruit Pokemon on a trial basis and use them in battle to see if they're a good fit for your style. Once you found a match, use your in-game victory points to bring Pokemon onto your team. You can also use VP, that's victory points, Tim, to train the permanent members of your Pokemon squad, own their attack, defense, and other stats, and even alter their abilities and move to try out different strategies in battle. Pokemon champions will be compatible with Pokemon Home, the cloud service for Nintendo Switch 2, and Switch systems, and mobile devices. That means in addition to the Pokemon partners available in Pokemon Champions, you can also team up with certain Pokemon brought over from past Pokemon's. series games in Pokemon Go. How good is the character creator? That's all I want to know.

In this? Because I'll probably just create a character and just like never play. Wait, did it say Pokemon? Did it say a character creator? Well, I mean, I see that there's a trainer in the back there and you're playing somebody. You're training right there. Red Valentine there. I feel like you're just going to pick from presets. Like here's four trainers. Yeah, I don't expect you to have a lot

of training. Yeah, because that's like the focus. Yeah. But like I mean, they just wouldn't do that anyway. But yeah, I'm excited for this. Like, I like the idea of being able to, especially being able to take Pokemon that are in Pokemon home. Yeah, yeah. Because that's what will get me to actually use it.

The idea that I can just go online, match up with random people and get into Pokemon battles. For me, that's the dream. That's like, you know, taking me back to, again, what I loved about Stadium was usually renting Pokemon and just doing the random battles or whatever. I love this. I love that they're doing this. A lot of people are shouting out Pokemon Showdown as well, which this seems to be just the newer

official version of that I was not familiar with. But yeah, this seems really cool. Yeah, I would say the summer. Yeah, I was going to say how imminent is this release date? You know what I mean? That's the bigger question. My prediction would be like June, July. When is the next Pokemon champion?

Worlds is in August here in San Francisco, which I do think we'll hear about at some point on this. I had on my list of things going on. Maybe like May then. I think it would come out before that, right? Maybe they tried to do like a wizard thing though, right, where it like drops around then. I've absolutely no idea how you would bring your team in and all that chess. But yeah, I'm throwing it out there. Maybe possible.

Oh, like I said, too, Pokemon Go turns 10 this. year, which is outrageous to think about. I imagine they're going to go hard in the yard as well for both anniversaries. What they will show tomorrow, I don't know, or on Friday, I don't know. They finally took off that Pocop on Epstein Island. Wait, did they really have a Pocop stop there?

Maybe the internet tricked me, but I mean, it was a funny meme. You could submit for Pokemon for Pocop. So I like the idea of like, actually, no, I hate the idea. Yeah, you should. Because then I think deeper about it. I'm like, oh, shit. No.

Takes you to real dark places. Yeah, very quickly. Do we think we're going to hear about the world-class Pokemon attraction coming to Universal Studios? Last month, I'm reading from Nintendo Life, Ali Reynolds wrote up over there. The Pokemon Company Universal Studios have announced the world-class Pokemon attraction

will become a universal studio theme parks in Japan and global locations described as an interactive Pokemon experience that will simulate all five senses. The attraction will debut Universal Studios Japan before heading out globally. This presumably, includes parks in Orlando, Los Angeles, yada, yada.

If not tomorrow, or if not this week, then when, you know? Like, I feel like that sounds like a perfect time to, if you got nothing to show, show off some concept parts, show off some ideas for what, you know, is planned when it comes to rides or collectible things within the, you know, the way, the way Mario Land does, like the little wristbands, you know, a little cute interactions. Okay. And then, yeah, then you're into stuff like. Like sleep like I joked about the actual card came pocket shows TV

I expect some kind of new show to be out there a new season or whatever I don't even know Yeah and I mean you're gonna get all all of those in some different way or form the Pokemon I feel like there's a new Pokemon show announced at every single one of these so I'm like one of it And I know they come out too I just don't watch them but like I'm like man how many shows are y'all working on over there So I feel like they've done every format now And we see the behind the scenes it's like dude There's a lot of stop motion. Yeah.

That's got to be the most expensive shit to fun. Diving into some super chats here, of course. Bander S.N tosses that poking tournament too. Man, I'd be down for that. I didn't play much of one because I didn't own a Wii U and then I wasn't going to buy it for Switch. But a new one? Hell yeah.

Like, let's do it. Killing has doubles down on Blessings' prediction. My prediction is that Toby Fox won't do just a few songs. It'll be the main composer for Gend 10. I would love that. I would love that so much. I don't know, but. Jay Forelli says,

champions detaching the competition scene from the main RPG is sure to have an impact on how Gen 10 operates. Big shifts in store. Interesting. Which is an interesting. Yeah, I hadn't thought about that.

Oh, everybody wants to talk about Gen 10, of course. Jason says, my Gen 10 wish, experience share should be toggled on and off. The gyms could be replayable with difficulty scaling. That would be pretty good. That's really good, actually. And then Huey says, what are we thinking about a price tag for

Gen 10, 70 or 80? 80. I bet 82. I'm gonna say 70. They'll justify it though. They'll show you how many cool things are there. There's no way you can justify it. It'll be 80 and it'll be more and when we see the game it'll be more perplexing

than the Mario Kart World 80 dollar price. Well, of course, yeah. That's my thing. That's why I say 70 is I think, like I think they'll look at each other and go, guys, we can't do this. I just can't. I think that's, that's gonna be like when the Grinch's heart grew

three sizes or whatever. No, no. They're gonna look at the game and they're gonna be like, guys, we can barely charge $70. We can't charge $80. Right?

But no, I think they look at each other, they look at each other and they're like, guys, I think we can do this. We've shown time and time again. They'll buy anything.

Yeah. They don't care. They will buy it. The day of release, the Game Freak account also post footage of Beas of Reincarnation. just to remind people.

Here's what we, here's where we are capable of. The crazy Allen says how much should Beasts of Reincarnation take away from the development of Gen 10? And I don't think it works. Yeah, I don't think that's how it works. I feel like people ask this every single time

when a company is working on multiple things, but yeah, usually I don't think it affects them at all. I think it's a, you know, a decent question to ask. I just don't know, we would have to know what, how many teams are within Game Freak working on what? And from my understanding,

it's like, Bees of Reincarnation is a smaller team getting a lot of outsourced help to develop Beas of Reincarnation if anybody from Czech can figure out where I pulled that from. I want to give you one final.

How much is Pocopi? Have they said the price tag? They have to have said how much it is. I'm looking for it. Okay. If Pocopio is not 80, I don't think. It can't. be it can't be 80.

Everybody's convinced in chat that it's 80. I don't think it's 80. I mean, I don't think you're wrong for it not wanting, for you not wanting it to be 80. But like, I guess my other thinking is that 70, 70, everything. The only other game, oh, 70, damn.

If they can sell Pocopia for 70, they can 100% sell Gen 10 for 80. Pocopia is probably gonna be a better game than Gen 10, though. That's the crazy. Like, the reason why I'm still stuck on 70 is Mario Kart World is the only game so far from Nintendo that they've actually

charged $80 for, unless I'm forgetting something. But like, DK, Metroid, like all the other first party stuff, still being 70, makes me hold on to hope. They look at all of their switch tiles and they go, what has sold the most? Mario Kart 8 and 8 Deluxe sold boatloads. Make the next one 80.

What else sells a lot? Pokemon sells a lot. All right, final super chat before we get out of here, comes from Cberry 328, who says, My Bet, the first part, you're like, okay, sure. A new live action movie. Okay, does active Begetchutu or something that? I like that.

Or a roguelight. What about a roguelite Pokemon game? Well, I mean, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon is the most roguid, right? Sure. So, I mean, it feels like, it feels more akin to Pokeyrog, which was the flash. Or not, I don't know what the slash, but it was the browser-based game that Mike got obsessed with a couple years ago. And I also liked it a lot, but you would just get into Pokemon battles and do the thing. I think that'd be neat, but I just don't, it doesn't strike me as something the Pokemon company would do.

that feels a bit more niche. Well, we will find out everybody this Friday for Pokemon Presents. Of course, we will be live reacting to this 30th anniversary YouTube.com slash kind of funny games Twitch.tvs slash kind of funny games. Of course, at 6am.

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