Pokémon boss Tsunekazu Ishihara believes the long-running sequence of video games, tv exhibits, films and buying and selling playing cards will proceed for the subsequent 70 years.
Yesterday (February 27) was Pokémon Day, which celebrates the day the unique Pink & Inexperienced Recreation Boy video games had been launched in Japan. Subsequent 12 months, the franchise will rejoice its thirtieth anniversary however chatting with the BBC, The Pokémon Firm’s CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara believes there’s quite a lot of life left in Pocket Monsters.
“[Our main goal is] to counterpoint each the actual world and the digital world,” he defined. “If we proceed specializing in our mission, Pokémon can most likely proceed to its fiftieth or one centesimal anniversary. But when we change into complacent and float, that’s when it can go downhill.”
“Pokémon is the one factor we do, so no matter revenue we make will get reinvested in Pokémon,” he continued. “We’ll go bust when Pokémon is now not standard.“
Seeking to the longer term, he revealed the franchise needs to proceed “connecting the actual and digital worlds” like they’ve achieved with crossover augmented actuality recreation Go and cell card accumulating recreation Pocket. Yesterday, The Pokémon Firm introduced their new recreation Champions, which will probably be obtainable on Cell and Nintendo Change consoles and can permit gamers to battle with Pokémon caught in different video games.
“That is what I believe is the most important power of Pokémon, and it’s necessary for us to provide you with this sort of thought, in order that’s how I consider what we wish to obtain subsequent,” Ishihara defined.
Yesterday (February 27), a “late 2025” launch window was additionally confirmed for Legends Z-A alongside a revamped fight system.
“Trainers will transfer round in actual time throughout battles, and Pokémon will unleash their strikes when their Trainers command them to.Along with kind matchups, there will probably be new gameplay mechanics to think about, such because the exact timing for utilizing strikes, the completely different lengths of time strikes will take to launch, and the way massive an space the strikes will impression. This unprecedented fashion of battling is likely one of the most thrilling components of this title,” reads the brand new Legends Z-A web site.
A second season of Netflix’s Pokémon Concierge can also be set to hit streaming later this 12 months whereas 2027 will see the premiere of an “thrilling” new collaboration with Wallace & Gromit creators Aardman.
In different information a brand new Tinder-inspired recreation discovery platform has been revealed, with Ludocene presently elevating funds on Kickstarter.
