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Pokemon Scarlet & Violet - 18th Nov 2022! **OFFICIAL INFO ONLY**

In preparation for tomorrow’s Pokémon Presents, I wanted to briefly go over what all has and hasn’t been confirmed across the franchise, and organize them by how “likely”, so to speak, they are to show up here. I’m also going to be including a recap of January 2020’s Pokémon Direct in this post, since a lot of people seem to anticipate this being similar to how that one was handled.

January 2020 Direct Recap

Presentation runtime: Roughly 20 minutes

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX announced; releases March 6th, 2020

Pokémon Sword & Pokémon Shield Expansion Pass announced; the Isle of Armor coming Summer 2020 and the Crown Tundra coming Fall 2020

All Currently Confirmed Pokémon News So Far

Pokémon GO Hoenn Tour recently concluded; new Seasonal Update coming in a few days; Season theme TBD

Pokémon Masters EX run-up to 3.5 years event currently ongoing; new sync pairs set to debut in March 2023

Zacian-Crowned is slated to be the next playable character for Pokémon Unite; release date TBD

Detective Pikachu movie sequel and game sequels both confirmed to “still be in active development”, per industry reports; release dates TBD

New Pokémon anime series set to release in Japan in March of 2023 with new protagonists and side characters; Paldean Pokémon heavily featured in new series

Currently Unconfirmed Pokèmon News From Leaks & Source Codes (less likely to be present overall)

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon announcement possible, per SPIKE Chunsoft copyright listing (1993-2023)

Pokémon Scarlet & Pokémon Violet DLC of some form speculated to release during 2023; heavily speculated to include a new Legendary Pokémon and feature currently inaccessible sections of Paldea

Pokémon Ruby & Pokémon Sapphire previously used during play testing for the Game Boy Advance application for Nintendo Switch Online (the application was later confirmed in February 2023’s Nintendo Direct; the game data is currently not present in the application’s source code from what I’m aware of)

Pokémon Sleep website domain discovered to reroute to the official Pokémon Presents page for 2.27.23; online domain validity TBD
 
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Worldie said:
I wanted to let ya normies know that Pokemon Sleep happened.

We can now die
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ftfy.

So glad Pokemon Home connectivity still doesn’t have a set release date. Oh em gee a Suicune Paradox though I’m very much regretting not getting Scarlet….. DLC looks like fun tbh, and I’m gon get that Hisuian Zoroark. Woot woot.
 
Worldie said:
No new game, and this time the DLC is one in 2 parts.

I am very surprised that Paradox Suicune / Virizion are going to be distributed via a event raid *soon tm*. We knew they existed but I was expecting them to be in the DLCs
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Same, kinda - we know they were meant to be in the main game but were removed last minute, but I was expecting them to be featured in the DLC but I like this method better, makes it easier for players to get the other.

Lure and Friend Balls at the ready!

As for the DLC, I like the direction of it - seems very cool and fits in well with SV, looking forward to it.

EDIT: Although no PMD is quite shocking? I kinda thought it was a given considering the new trademark updates as well as.. a certain someone alluding to it.

No HOME release date is a bummer too.
 
So do you think those other 3 pokemon in the key art might be the "region"'s starter Pokemon>?
The live action segment had masks that line up with them but they seemed to be earlier stages to me. But those could also just be something cutsie versions of them I suppose.
 
R_N said:
So do you think those other 3 pokemon in the key art might be the "region"'s starter Pokemon>?
The live action segment had masks that line up with them but they seemed to be earlier stages to me. But those could also just be something cutsie versions of them I suppose.
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Either the "starter", or plot relevant in some way. Thinking of Kubfu basically.

Perriechu said:
As for the DLC, I like the direction of it - seems very cool and fits in well with SV, looking forward to it.
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I had the same thought, I like the way they are "integrated in lore", you're a student so... go do student exchange things.

Will be looking forward to the plotlines.

Also they did show a few returning pokemon for both DLCs, basically just confirming the model will be same as SwSh.
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Ah can't wait to have a somewhat decent sun setter at least instead of one that's basically only functional in TR.

One thing that caught my eye tho is that this time they aren't making a "expansion pass" with 2 separate DLCs, but rather a single purchase with 2 separate part release.
I do wonder if they just saw that pretty much anyone who bought the SwSh DLCs bought both, or some different reason.
 
Worldie said:
One thing that caught my eye tho is that this time they aren't making a "expansion pass" with 2 separate DLCs, but rather a single purchase with 2 separate part release.
I do wonder if they just saw that pretty much anyone who bought the SwSh DLCs bought both, or some different reason.
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What do you mean? You couldn't buy Isle of Armor or Crown Tundra separately
 
So as expected, SV is indeed getting DLC.

Its name is "The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero" and Part 1 is called "The Teal Mask" while Part 2 is called "The Indigo Disk".

One will involve another place called Kitakawa and the other part will have you will enrolled in a place called the Blueberry Academy.

Worldie said:
One thing that caught my eye tho is that this time they aren't making a "expansion pass" with 2 separate DLCs, but rather a single purchase with 2 separate part release.
I do wonder if they just saw that pretty much anyone who bought the SwSh DLCs bought both, or some different reason.
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What are you talking about, this was the case with SwSh too.

IoA and CT were not separate purchases: they were one expansion pass, it's just it started with only IoA first, and then the CT part was added later in the next patch. If you already bought the Expansion Pass ie Isle of Armor before Crown Tundra's release you got Crown Tundra automatically via the next patch.

This is the same situation.
 
The wording of them being new regions stood out to me too - for SWSH they made it very evident that they were just extensions of Galar whereas for Paldea they seem to be brand new Regions - are the DLCs going to be essentially mini-regions with more content or just islands? (I did think it odd how we didn't see like any in-game content at all, even with EP for Sword/Shield we had in-game screenshots and a lot of reference sheets)
 
Perriechu said:
The wording of them being new regions stood out to me too - for SWSH they made it very evident that they were just extensions of Galar whereas for Paldea they seem to be brand new Regions - are the DLCs going to be essentially mini-regions with more content or just islands? (I did think it odd how we didn't see like any in-game content at all, even with EP for Sword/Shield we had in-game screenshots and a lot of reference sheets)
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I don't think Blueberry Academy is necessarily in another region, even if we are an exchange student.

Especially since that's in Indigo Disk which has to connect to Area Zero
 
Perriechu said:
The wording of them being new regions stood out to me too - for SWSH they made it very evident that they were just extensions of Galar whereas for Paldea they seem to be brand new Regions - are the DLCs going to be essentially mini-regions with more content or just islands?
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R_N said:
I don't think Blueberry Academy is necessarily in another region, even if we are an exchange student.
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To be fair what intrigues me the most is that they called the dlc pack "Hidden Treasure of Area Zero", but neither of them seem to have anything to do with it.

My guess is that the first DLC sends us to that area on the right of the Paldea map that is inaccessible but clearly a landmass (and not just ocean), while the other one will be some kind of research institute off the coast.
 
R_N said:
I don't think Blueberry Academy is necessarily in another region, even if we are an exchange student.

Especially since that's in Indigo Disk which has to connect to Area Zero
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You're probably right, we did get a little glimpse of a map in the Blueberry Academy section;

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Showing that it looks to be more of an island, or at least an extension, rather than a brand new region.

The first one though - those 3 unnamed Pokémon appear at different intervals, looking different at each stage (Although that could just be for the purpose of a statue/mask) Could they be giving us 2 sets of new starters in the same generation?

EDIT - Oh new legend trio based off the description

"These creatures “are beloved by the people of the village as heroes that protected the land of Kitakami in the past, and stone statues were made in their likeness to express the people’s gratitude.”
 
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