The Pokémon Company has today unveiled its latest game in the Pokémon series with a huge focus on smartphone gaming. Instead of the iconic Johto or Kanto regions seen in previous games, the Pokémon Company is in collaboration with Nintendo and Niantic who were behind the augmented reality game Ingress. Dubbed ‘Pokémon GO’ the latest game in the series looks to follow in the footsteps of Ingress, letting players find Pokémon and do battle in the real world.
Get ready for an all-new Pokémon experience! Pokémon GO opens a universe of Pokémon to find, catch, trade, and battle on your iPhone or Android device! With Pokémon GO, you’ll discover Pokémon in a whole new world—your own! Pokémon GO will use real location information to allow players to experience catching, trading, and battling Pokémon. Visit our site for more information.
In addition to the announcement of Pokémon GO, Nintendo is also developing a companion device to go with the release of the game. The ‘Pokémon GO Plus’ will be designed to help you on your quest to catch all of the available Pokémon without having to be constantly anti-social and always looking at your phone. The device (which is shaped like a Pokéball teardrop) will light up and vibrate when an untamed Pokémon is near by.
While a price or release date has not yet been set for the Pokémon GO Plus device, Pokémon GO itself is set to be available in 2016 for iOS and Android devices. The game will be free to play but will have various in-app purchases available.
5 Comments
Michael Bootes
Sep 10, 2015 10:28 pmMicrotransactions worry me hopefully they’ll just be for masterballs and various rare items Kinda hoping they make real world store locations pokemarts. Not to mention take terrain into account for pokemon assignments so I can catch goldeen at the lake and not in the middle of a big field
Kochie
Sep 11, 2015 12:51 pmSounds like a good idea for the Microtransactions. I really hope someone doesn’t try and drown themselves trying to catch the Goldeen though. 😛
Michael Bootes
Sep 11, 2015 7:53 pmno-one would drown trying to get a goldeen now a red gyarados on the other hand that’d be worth some waterlog ooh do you think they’ll have shineys?
Kochie
Sep 14, 2015 8:46 am:O I didn’t even think about that! Oh please have shinies!
Michael Bootes
Sep 10, 2015 10:29 pmTotally buying the pokemon go plus