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

Pokemon Masters datamine revealed the date for this, and we know at least one Masters-related reveal from that. Pokemon GO I guess will highlight the global GO fest, not sure if they have anything else in the pipeline.

For DLC, release date would be nice, I hope we at very least get some type reveals, if not hints at new Pokemon.

HOME is also getting maintenance ahead of the presents, reportedly to fix an EXP bug with GO transfers, but naturally people on the site formerly known as Twitter are fantasizing that it portends possible DLC related updates. I guess we'll see.
 
For 35 minutes I think we can expect a lot tbh, their August presents does tend to be an "updates" rather than announcements, so I'm fully expecting a good look at DLC, specifically Part 1 with the release date.

Detective Pikachu 2 will unfortunately have some spotlight - from a Unite perspective they'll probably officially announce Blaziken and maybe a new update coming in September. Along with GO Fest - and then Masters, Cafe, and Sleep's first event.

TCG update potentially? The Netflix/Dub projects, too. I think they'll update everything they can at this point as there's nothing else really for them to divulge 35 minutes worth of time to (Even though they are great at padding it with nonsense)

I truly cannot see them doing this Presents and then giving us minimal DLC updates, considering Scarlet and Violet dried up months ago.
 
We'll probably get another Unite & Cafe update as well
A good a time as any to announce a raid that people have figured out through datamining, as well.
"TCG Classic" will probably make another appearance. Pokemon Conceirge preview

Probably some additional game wouldn't surprise me taking a chunk of time.


A long, exhaustive talk about Worlds because hey its in JAPAN this year did you know its in JAPAN it's in 3 days get hyped!


I'm honestly not sure how detailed they'll be about the DLC at all. Each chunk will probably be a few hours long, storywise, and they've had aversion to showing full details about the stories for a while. There's probably more to say about DLC 2 (probably talk about classes we can take and new features that probably come with), but with DLC 1 not even out yet its like....i dunno we can probably hold off for a few months.
 
R_N said:
A long, exhaustive talk about Worlds because hey its in JAPAN this year did you know its in JAPAN it's in 3 days get hyped!
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From what I've heard, Worlds are also up for a significant structure change next year, so I'm assuming a part of the Presents may be used to showcase the new qualification system for 2024
 
Worldie said:
From what I've heard, Worlds are also up for a significant structure change next year, so I'm assuming a part of the Presents may be used to showcase the new qualification system for 2024
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I think that might be a bit too in the weeds (& i think mostly based around points for certain divisions) to bother with in a presents. I think they'd want to continue showing the "fun" stuff instead
 
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Time to revive this graph (blue = main series, light blue = main series update, purple = connectivity app, green = rerelease, yellow = spin-off, red = mobile, grey = non-game)

Obviously we know this is going to be the longest Presents ever, but that doesn't mean anything. February 2023 was the longest Pokemon Day Presents ever, and it ended up having (1) the most non-game stuff ever, beating the entire 25th anniversary trailer, (2) the most mobile game stuff ever, beating one that was over 63% mobile games, and (3) the lowest percentage of main series content ever on Pokemon Day. Meanwhile, the presentation that revealed the largest number of purchaseable (non-mobile) games was only 8 minutes long.

For "fun", let's take the worst records we've had and extrapolate them:
  • Feb 2023 was ~41% non-game stuff and ~41% mobile stuff, or ~81% filler and 19% main series content.
  • June 2020 was 9% non-game stuff, ~63% mobile stuff, 14% spin-off content, and 14% main series content.
  • Therefore, across 35 minutes, we could expect as much as 22.5 minutes of mobile stuff, as much as 28.5 minutes of filler, and as little as 4.5 minutes of main series content, and it wouldn't break any records. There's always the chance that, just like Feb 2023, it breaks a record and becomes even worse.
Here's a projection of what that might look like:
  • 1 minute of intro filler
  • 4.5 minutes of Worlds info
    • If this feels long, in Aug 2022, Worlds also took up 13% of the presentation. Add on the "home nation" effect (e.g. trivia about the annual "Pikachu Outbreakchu" event in Yokohama and how it's coinciding with Worlds for the first time)
  • 3 minutes of Pokemon Concierge (Netflix) info/release date
  • 1 minute of Trading Card Game Classic info/release date
  • 0.5 minutes of "non-game -> game" transition filler
  • 2.5 minutes of CafeMix
  • 2.5 minutes of Unite
  • 3 minutes of Go
  • 3 minutes of Masters
    • Bonus points if it begins with a "fake main series" trailer like a bunch of the previous Masters trailers have done
  • 5 minutes of Sleep
  • 0.5 minutes of "mobile -> non-mobile" transition filler
  • 3 minutes of Detective Pikachu 2
  • 1 minute of Scarlet/Violet Mewtwo raid info
    • Because of the "lit-up M" effect in the Presents announcement video where some people are speculating Mewtwo and other people are speculating the neon sign of the Detective Pikachu movie's theatrical poster, let's combine the worst of both worlds and say "as a tie-in, players will be able to access the Mewtwo raid if they have Detective Pikachu 2 save data" :heart:
  • 3.5 minutes of actual new Scarlet/Violet DLC info
  • 1 minute of outro filler
Have fun :toast:
 
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MrHands said:
I'm going to call it now. 35 minutes of Pokemon Sleep, Unite, Go, etc and like 5 minutes of the DLC revealing mostly irrelevant things.

Remember everyone if you keep your expectations low you'll never be disappointed.

Edit: Zowayix already did my joke, but better.
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I see your bet and raise you this: 39.59 minutes of filler, and then 1 (one) (uno) (a singular) second of DLC info that is basically “Still Fall 2023”
 
Scorpio said:
I see your bet and raise you this: 39.59 minutes of filler, and then 1 (one) (uno) (a singular) second of DLC info that is basically “Still Fall 2023”
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In complete seriousness, we did once have a Pokemon Direct trailer with 1 second of new info. The Sun/Moon announcement trailer's only reveal was 1 second of Pikipek. Everything else was filler and concept art (not actually in the game, like the Hawaiian fire truck with Blastoise). The names and logos at the end of the presentation were leaked by TPC themselves a few days prior (official trademark filings).

(To be fair, the presentation continued after the main trailer and went on to reveal the "available in 9 languages" part as well as the unprecedented Virtual Console -> Bank support.)
 
Go Fest would be kind of odd to focus on now (as opposed to if Go just has general coverage or VGC stuff) since Go Fest for London and Osaka ended this weekend and the NYC event is 2 weeks from now. The Global version is a smaller scale version a week after that but overall there's not much content to cover on that front alone, and a lot of it is stuff a lot of the playerbase has already played something of. So I'm actually willing to bet Go won't have a significant amount of coverage beyond "Hey Go Fest is happening in NYC soon", with more time on stuff like Detective Pikachu 2 and other Mobile Games like Sleep and Masters.

Copium in me would hope for something like a Ranger collection or Conquest (port or Sequel).
 
Zowayix said:
What do you mean? Is there anything in the graph that's labeled filler (grey) that you wouldn't call filler?
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The problem is that people in the last 30 or so posts have just been defining anything that isnt SV news "filler". :smogonbird:

even if it was 30 minutes of Unite and 3 seconds of DLC news, these 30 mins are definitely not filler.
"Filler" is just pointless news / videos about already happened things, general pokemon lore that have no relationship with future releases, or features already shown in previous announcements and just repeated with no additional infos.
 
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Three private videos have been added to the official channel under the "Pokemon News" playlist.

For comparison, last Presents had six videos:
  • Sleep 'cinematic' trailer
  • Sleep video actually showing the app
  • Go Plus + video
  • Concierge on Netflix
  • Walking Wake/Iron Leaves raid
  • SV DLC reveal
Speculation for this time:
- Detective Pikachu 2 trailer/info
- Mewtwo raid
- SV DLC trailer/info

If true, this would automatically rule out the possibility of any 'more interesting' reveal.
 
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