Except it's the year 2016 and nobody would ever leave the house to trade or battle Pokemon because the internet exists

Why did I wake up at 7 am for this

Well it was literally nothing lmao holy f***

just a confirmation of a release & release window of 'Late 2016'

f*** you nintendo

i suspect they wanted to push something out on the date of the 20th anniversary, even though they didn't have anything to show

definitely the most underwhelming Direct I've ever seen lmao

they could have shown the legendaries
if they really didn't have anything to show then i am very worried if the game is releasing in the next 9 months
especially because if it's actually going to be December-late then they won't even have 9 months of design and development lol

the leaks pretty much spoiled the whole direct lol

According to twitter detectives (and the whole CHINESE LANGUAGE part of the direct) the games will be set in... Singapore? The building shown is based off of a building in Singapore

neat I guess

neato

Wonder if it'll be entirely Singapore or other parts of SE Asia as well

Singapore has a nice shape for a Pokémon region, but it's also pretty small and is a city-state, not a whole region. I guess they don't have to follow the real world equivalent -too- closely, but it still makes me wonder

also if Solrock and Lunatone don't get megas in this game then they never will

what if the cover legendaries evolve into Solrock and Lunatone

I took a bunch of screenshots here if you guys want to check them quick
http://imgur.com/a/9n4VW

Are we going to work for the city? With all these cars. All I want in this Gen is that they make this game somewhat harder or give us the choice of not being a 10 years old kid.

That wouldn't be pokemon then.
That wouldn't pander towards the demographic that makes them millions everytime they release a new game either.

I'd like that too though tbh, but I don't see it.

Edit: I guess what I mean is, they'd be too afraid to change the formula, if it ain't broke dont fix it idk

Who the f*** plays pokemon who is under 16 years old

Ash Ketchum.

Revisited the screenshots

Idk, it just seems like we'll be able to travel from place to place with cars.

That looks like a motel of some sorts and there's a car in front of it and this

Is also a hotel I presume and not a water gym like GX says. Lets say we could travel to Kanto, Hoenn or any place near what seems to be Singapore (Which is the region everyone is speculating about). They emphasize the first Gen a lot so maybe we're getting that kind of game.

They replaced bycicles with cars. Done.