Even so, it’s a vague line with video games. One could argue that any FPS is infringing on Wolfensteins intellectual property (though that's clearly a more extreme example than this knockoff).

I like the way you think. Maybe the NX will just be a platypus of all the different things people have been asking Nintendo for, though I'm a dreamer.

Yeah that's a really good point, especially considering that all the pokemon were gen 1, they're probably shooting for a market that doesn't necessarily play pokemon anymore. Then again it's such a beloved franchise that they should know what the outrage will be if it turns out bad.

Calm down and email kotaku. If that's all true they'll wanna talk to you and being calm will be in your best interest.

Yeah it would be and I do appreciate the caution. I'm also like why would they do it that way? An iphone can easily handle pokemons battle algorithms and everyone would be pissed.

They also straight up say there will be battles in the trailer. In what capacity I’m not sure but it seems ridiculous to strip it of a battle formula that’s been selling for decades.

In the announcement (not the trailer) they were referring to it as AR if I’m not mistaken, but it could be AR the way that ingress is AR which isn’t AR at all but an ARG. And maybe i am mistaken. But that's a very pricey trailer for what, if you're right, won't be a game that sells very well or gets played very much.

I’m more cautiously optimistic, especially considering a) the technology to have a camera thing has existed for years and b) the images at the end don’t look like actual screenshots, but animations of full phones. Furthermore you see people holding up their phone and looking through it at a pokemon multiple times,…

Well they're apparently pushing the AR angle here, but we don't quite know what they mean.

Yeah this is a fear I’ve addressed but they have the technology to do it right, in fact there has already been a game where you see pokemon on camera. The idea really isn't that hard to accomplish. You also don’t know that the snorlax beloved to the alerted dude, maybe he was looking for it.

Yeah battery power could be an issue but I’m buying a big ol external battery if I’m starting my pokemon adventure. Plus having a natural time limit will prevent this from becoming the reason Abe dropped out of grad school

Yeah from discussing this is seems like the real question is whether you’ll hold up your phone and see pokemon integrated into the environment or whether it will be go here and your phone says you caught the pokemon.

Yeah besides AR (I’m a bit of a VR skeptic but AR I can see working) I’d like to see a high powered traditional console with a focus on Mario maker esque stuff but this pokemon go business feels like it could be pointing towards AR. It might be a smartphone though which I'm more skeptical of than either idea. I'm also…

Yeah I honestly was never a big fan of the wii, it felt like rather than progressing forward with the gamecube they added a peripheral and called it a new system, but they sold the most (although the fact that it was the cheapest Netflix machine at the time moved a lot of units and of course the gamecube could never…

That ingress trailer does make me worry though.

Yeah I see what you’re saying, though the graphics weren’t super impressive. I feel like due to pokemons cartoony style it would be easy to have it actually look like this on your phone. So at first you’d need to hold up your phone and use it as a looking glass, with gps locations for rare pokemon but weak pokemon…

I see where you’re coming from with the wiiu and to a certain extent id agree about the wii (though it sold well), but two screens and a controller that no one was sure how to hold did quite well. I’m not so much of a fanboy that I’ll buy the crappy systems, but I feel that innovation requires trial and error (often…

Yeah I have the feeling that if Nintendo doesn’t do it, fans will be strapping their phones onto the front of headsets.

I haven't played ingress, but most of the complaints I've heard are either too few locations or no one to play with, both of which almost definitley won't be problems for pokemon. It also seems like the mechanics of battling/training will largely be the same save for events, but I'm interested in why you think this…

Yeah yeah virtual boy didn’t sell well I know but the technology wasn’t there yet and it actually functioned despite that. Now that AR and VR could potentially take off, I have a feeling Nintendo could get it right.