Pokémon Day 2026 Predictions - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode: Pokémon Day 2026 Predictions

Date: February 23, 2026
Hosts: Greg Miller, Blessing Adeoye Jr., Andy Cortez, Barrett Courtney
Special Segment: Guest voice memo from Tim Gettys

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Overview of Episode Theme

This episode dives deep into predictions and hopes for the Pokémon Presents showcase, airing on Pokémon Day 2026—the franchise’s 30th anniversary. The Kinda Funny crew discusses what fans can expect from new game announcements (especially Gen 10), upcoming releases like Pokémon Pocopia and Pokémon Champions, desired changes to the series, and the broader role Pokémon plays in Nintendo’s ecosystem. The conversation also touches on nostalgia, franchise fatigue, art direction, feature requests like voice acting, and wild, fun speculation.

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Table of Contents

1. Opening Banter & Cast Intros
2. Pokémon Day & FireRed/LeafGreen Shadow Drop
3. Expectations and Predictions for Pokémon Presents 2026
4. Gen 10 Discussion: Scope, Platform, Features
5. Other Pokémon Day Announcements (Pocopia, Champions, TCG Pocket, Theme Parks)
6. Nostalgia & Franchise Evolution
7. Dream Features & Wild Cards
8. Listener Predictions & Super Chat Highlights
9. Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

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1. Opening Banter & Cast Intros

• The cast joke around about energy drinks, fashion, and hanging vs. folding shirts, with Andy and Blessing talking about "looks maxing" and quickly course-correcting after realizing the phrase's unfortunate connotations.
• Greg delivers his trademark long-winded introductions before finally steering the show toward Pokémon Day coverage.
• “We’ll get to Pokémon eventually.” (05:20) — Greg, teasing the audience’s patience.

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2. Pokémon Day & FireRed/LeafGreen Shadow Drop

• The group discusses Nintendo’s “leak”/quiet release of FireRed and LeafGreen on the eShop, which coincided with Pokémon Day hype.
• Reactions to the leak range from excitement to indifference, with Andy and Blessing noting it would have been a bigger deal if it had been a full remake rather than a 20-year-old re-release at $20 each.
• Greg shares personal anticipation: “I can’t fucking wait. I’m so excited for it.” (15:02)
• Blessing debates the value versus nostalgia: “Honestly, I don’t think the price is that bad...for $20 I would buy this and play it.” (12:42)
• Chat involvement: Debate over whether these old games should have come to Nintendo Switch Online instead of being sold individually.

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3. Expectations and Predictions for Pokémon Presents 2026

• The hosts go around sharing their individual hype levels and what they’re most eager (or anxious) to see.
• Blessing is “expecting great things” despite a history of disappointment: “There’s a good chance I’ll be disappointed, but it’s the 30th anniversary...I want great things to happen.” (09:49)
• Greg observes this is the first time he’s truly excited for a Pokémon Day: “I’m juiced, I’m a fan.” (09:26)
• Speculation on the nature of announcements: new mainline gen, multiplayer games, mobile titles, card game expansions, anime news, and the theme park attraction.

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4. Gen 10 Discussion: Scope, Platform, Features

Platform Debate: Switch 1 vs. Switch 2

• Big debate whether Gen 10 will be exclusive to the new Switch 2, cross-gen (Switch 1 and 2), or something in-between.
• Andy: “You gotta sell the Switch 2.” (09:21)
• Blessing counters Pokémon Co. would prefer more copies sold via install base: “The point of Pokémon is to move software more so than anything because the software ripples out into everything else.” (24:24)
• Multiple references to info “leaks” hinting at Switch 2 exclusivity, but skepticism remains.

Dreams vs. Expectations

• Blessing: “Dreaming big, expecting not as big.” (22:19)
• Bar is set at “a solid passing grade”—fixing optimization, bugs, and performance issues from Gen 9.

Voice Acting

• Tim Gettys (via voicemail): “The hopium one: voice acting in the Gen 10 trailer...it’s not too much to ask for, but somehow it really is.” (43:57)
• Blessing and Andy: Both doubt it will ever happen, citing Game Freak’s habits and conservative design.
  • Andy: “I don’t ever expect voice acting in Pokémon games. And it’s unfortunate.” (33:04)
  • Blessing: “I’ll believe it when I see it.” (32:37)

Region & Theme

• Speculation about setting for Gen 10: Potentially going back to Kanto to celebrate 30 years (35:27), or a new region inspired by places like Australia (36:50) or Egypt (37:10).
• Greg discusses the potential for narrative connections to old characters—possible time jumps or nods like in Pokémon ZA.

Difficulty, Experience Share, and Battle System

• Desire for greater challenge and less hand-holding; calls for rebalancing Experience Share and less autopilot gameplay.
  • Andy: “I wish Experience Share was less extreme...dial it back by like 15, 20%.” (39:06)
  • Listener (via chat): “I just need Gen 10 to fight back a little bit.” (37:26)
• Calls for an actual art style, referencing affection for “Let's Go” visuals and Legends Arceus’s direction. (41:04)

Release Date & Delay Speculation

• Andy suggests a teaser for Gen 10 could air now, with actual release in 2027—“I would love for them to delay a Pokémon.” (45:58)
• Blessing predicts a traditional November launch, potentially a week before GTA VI (46:28).

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5. Other Pokémon Day Announcements (Pocopia, Champions, TCG Pocket, Theme Parks)

Pokémon Pocopia

• Big expectations for “Animal Crossing meets Pokémon”; possible deep dive, with a hope for a playable demo.
• Tech/Life Sim exclusive to Switch 2 draws community controversy.

Pokémon Champions

• Hype for the “official battle sim” debuting ahead of Pokémon Worlds in San Francisco.
• Blessing: “I was such a Pokémon Stadium kid…for me, that’s the dream.” (59:01)
• Discussion of compatibility with Pokémon Home, ranked and casual multiplayer, and speculation on character customization.
• Questions around release window—May/August suggested to sync with Pokémon Worlds (59:42).

TCG Pocket

• Barrett: “I almost have 12,000 cards...Master rank for four seasons in a row.” (18:21)

Pokémon Theme Park News

• With Universal Studios partnership confirmed, hosts predict possible concept art and details at Pokémon Presents.
• Theme park to “stimulate all five senses” (61:01), opening in Japan first, then globally.

Anime & Other Media

• New shows, animated shorts, and more expected; “there’s a new Pokémon show announced at every single one of these.” (61:38)

Further Announcements

• Hopes for Gold & Silver re-releases on Switch (54:01)
• Predictions of mini consoles or retro Game Boy hardware for nostalgia collectors (55:24)
• Potential for Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, Pinball, Snap, Minigame collections, or mobile exclusives (50:53)

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6. Nostalgia & Franchise Evolution

• Greg and Jen’s planned FireRed/LeafGreen co-op play with son Ben highlighted as example of Pokémon’s multi-generational appeal. (16:28)
• Acknowledgement that Kanto nostalgia is powerful, but also risks making the franchise feel stagnant.
• Complaints about recent games’ lack of difficulty and personality vs. the “edgier” early titles—“I miss that edge. Everything’s got the rounded edges now.” (15:20)

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7. Dream Features & Wild Cards

• Andy’s dream: “The Pokémon MMO” (52:06) – even just a logo announcement for a project years away.
• Speculation on wild concepts like Pokémon Roguelikes, a fully replayable gym system, or a total “art style glow-up.”

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8. Listener Predictions & Super Chat Highlights

• Frequent chat mentions on toggling Experience Share, replayable gyms with scaling (62:39), release date for Pokémon Champions, and wishlisting a $70 or $80 Gen 10 price.
• Price speculation: “If they can sell Pocopia for $70 they can 100% sell Gen 10 for $80.” (65:14)
• Discussion of which old Pokémon games could be added to Nintendo Online, and how touch-based DS games might be handled on Switch.

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9. Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Greg: “It’s a fool’s errand, but my hope is that it [Gen 10] competes with modern turn-based RPGs.” (33:12)
• Blessing: “I want to be surprised and delighted. I want a region…” (23:54)
• Andy (on Pokémon dev timelines): “Whenever that documentary comes out, it will not be official or authorized…guerrilla camera footage...most rushed crunch stuff of all time.” (31:44)
• Tim Gettys (voicemail): “The hopium one: voice acting in the Gen 10 trailer…It’s not too much to ask for, but somehow it really, really is.” (43:57)
• Andy (on visuals): “Bring back Let’s Go style, man.” (41:37)
• Barrett: “I almost have 12,000 cards. I’ve gotten Master rank for the last four seasons...” (18:21)
• Greg (on being Pokémon's #1 fan): “There’s a new reality here. You can be fighting game Poppy…I’m the one out here buying.” (34:53)
• Closing Joke: Predictions for a Pokémon Roguelite or live-action movie. (65:58)

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Key Timestamps by Segment

• Pokémon Day is the 30th Anniversary & FireRed/LeafGreen Leak: 07:35 – 15:41
• Pokémon Day Announcement Rundown & Prediction List: 17:29 – 18:19
• Pokémon Gen 10 Platform Debate: 22:16 – 29:49
• Voice Acting in Gen 10: 32:37 – 34:36, 43:57 (Tim’s message)
• Region Setting Dreamcasting: 35:27 – 37:19
• Experience Share & Difficulty: 39:06 – 41:04
• Art Direction & Let’s Go Visuals: 41:04 – 42:39
• Release Date/Delay Hopes: 45:58 – 46:42
• Pokémon Pocopia Deep Dive: 47:22 – 49:08
• Pokémon Champions Description/Speculation: 57:11 – 59:42
• Theme Park/Anime/Extra Announcements: 61:01 – 62:09
• Wildcard Predictions: 50:39, 52:06
• Listener Questions & Final Wrap: 62:26 – Close

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Summary

This episode of Kinda Funny Gamescast is a celebration of what makes Pokémon special on the eve of its 30th anniversary—a blend of cautious optimism, passionate nostalgia, and playful skepticism about the franchise’s ability to surprise. The hosts hope for technical improvements, proper utilization of Nintendo’s new hardware, major new mainline announcements, and perhaps a seismic shift toward modernity (voice acting, art style). At the same time, they recognize the cyclical, sometimes incremental nature of Pokémon’s developments—accepting that miracles are unlikely but inevitable fun and discourse await.

Don’t miss:

• The full Pokémon Presents 2026 watchalong and recap, airing Friday at 6am Pacific with Greg and Tim.
• Greg’s stream of Pokémon LeafGreen later that morning.

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Transcript

[Greg Miller]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

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[Andy Cortez]

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[Greg Miller]

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[Andy Cortez]

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[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Don't forget. Never forget, never forget. All right, I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller alongside Forbes 30 under 30, aka New York Game Awards nominated aka Biceps Poppy. Just give him a full flex. Hit him with the full damn.

[Andy Cortez]

Damn.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Damn. You kidding me right now? It's blessing Eddie. Oh, yea junior.

[Greg Miller]

What's up, Craig?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Also great haircut.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I came in Bless. When you come in, Bless always has his headphones on.

[Greg Miller]

I do.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. And he'll often say so up. And then if you start talking to him, you realize, oh, he can't hear me. He's just. He gave me a courtesy sup. Yeah, so I. I started to. And I stopped myself. I pivoted to Roger. But great haircut. Good job.

[Andy Cortez]

I appreciate it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I'm. I'm looks maxing today.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, wow.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I had to put on the. The necklace.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Nice. Okay, somebody's got you now that Tim's gone.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. All right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We're down so many down so many chains.

[Greg Miller]

But not forgotten.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Gone but not forgotten. Of course, next to you is the Hispanic heartthrob Texas treat. Latino heat. Clicking heads and ripping them to shreds. Globe shotting headshot. He shot the three point shooting. Rootin Tootin. I. Here's the problem. I Somebody in the chat months ago had said, I don't like it that it goes three point shooting. Rootin tootin. I wanted to go rootin tootin. 3.2.

[Andy Cortez]

Me too.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You want me to do that, too? So. Yeah, well, I listen to the chat, not you. Well, now I don't know what to do. Now I don't know what to do.

[Andy Cortez]

I think it's got a better rhythm.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Rootin tootin. Three point shooting.

[Andy Cortez]

Rootin tootin. Three point shooting. Yeah, yeah. Because.

[Tim Gettys]

Do you do adjective before, like a verb, type of thing or like an action?

[Andy Cortez]

No, I just like the way it sounds. It's just like the way it fits.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Three point shoot and root and toot.

[Andy Cortez]

No, no.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Root toot. Three point shoot.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Root and tootin. Three point shoot.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I get that for you.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

From Twitch tv. I'm sorry. It's, you know, natural rifle from Twitch tv. Andy Cortez.

[Tim Gettys]

Hello.

[Andy Cortez]

Good morning.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How are you?

[Andy Cortez]

I'm. I'm great. I got my Mountain Dew zeros.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Kevin walked in. It was confusing. Kevin left to get a battery, and he came back in with a bag full of Mountain Dew Zeros and a Red Bull in his hand open. And then he was.

[Andy Cortez]

His Red Bull.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He gave you the Mountain Dews without really saying anything, then began to answer me and turn the Red Bull upside down. I had to stop him from doing that. He didn't know he was doing.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, he didn't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

He was so distracted.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, gotcha.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I had a problem. I was running through. You know what I mean? Mm. How many Red Bull or how many Mountain Dews you get?

[Andy Cortez]

I got four. They're just hard to find because Diet Mound do have.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So is that. Did you get them doordash? And Kevin called the doordash guy. Yes, yes.

[Andy Cortez]

Died Mountain Dews have caffeine in them or. Or. Sorry. They have 10 calories.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Why is it cat. Why is it diet and if we got 10 calories?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I mean, 10 still is less than whatever.

[Greg Miller]

But it's like.

[Andy Cortez]

But it's still. It breaks the fast.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, is that how this works?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What's the. The fast KB above.

[Andy Cortez]

You just can't have. Yeah. Zero calories even.

[Tim Gettys]

Just come back to coffee, andy.

[Andy Cortez]

Not even 10. Well, maybe now that it's starting. Maybe now. That's not 45 degrees.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sure.

[Andy Cortez]

I like that iced coffee.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I do like that ice coffee.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Also. Is this a new spur shirt?

[Andy Cortez]

I've had it for a month.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I haven't seen you wear it that often.

[Andy Cortez]

It's usually like Underneath a hoodie.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I like that.

[Andy Cortez]

I like Go spurs, go.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I feel bad about that too. You know, I'm in my crew neck sweatshirt era. I wear lots of new shirts. I just never take off the. You know, you never see them anymore. And then I'm like, well, why am I wearing this shirt to begin with? You know what I mean? Why not just buy a 10 pack for $9 of Costco white T shirts, Wear those.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, might as well start saving

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

money, rather spend money.

[Greg Miller]

That's a crazy thing to do.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's why I would then get inevitably regular. Inevitably, inevitably I get to the point where I need to take it off. Cause I'm hot and then I'm just in a white T shirt. That's weird. That's weird. That's a weird.

[Greg Miller]

That is the reason, like, I never wear this shirt because like, I feel like 75% of the time I'm either wearing a hoodie or I'm wearing a jacket or whatever. And so I'm like, I want. If I'm wearing my rockstar shirt, I want the rockstar thing to be seen.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sure.

[Greg Miller]

So I had to like dig this out of the back of my closet because I rarely wear it. When I choose to wear it, it's like, I'm not gonna wear.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We'll get to Pokemon eventually. So now for your T shirts. You hanging them in the closet? Are they on a shelf in the closet?

[Greg Miller]

Pokemon. I hang them. I hang it. Yeah. Anything I'm wearing outside, I hang. But if I. All my inside clothes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I fold pajamas and stuff too.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. Is that crazy? You fold all your clothes?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I don't like the necks getting stretched.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, we've talked about this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You can't have a big stretched out neck. I got enough problems going on in my life.

[Greg Miller]

I feel like I'm not stretching out the neck when I hang things. Like, is it just in the process of hanging or is it like the hangers?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I just feel just in general, the natural elastic starts to go. The more hanging.

[Andy Cortez]

Rapid Dash snor.

[Greg Miller]

Relax.

[Andy Cortez]

Gengar Golding.

[Greg Miller]

I want to apologize for my comments earlier. Chat informed me that looks maxing is apparently an incel thing. I didn't know that. I just thought I meant that I was trying to look good.

[Tim Gettys]

That's where like it comes from, that community A little.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Is that like when I say anything maxing? Because I thought maxing was just like min maxing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Right? Yeah, that's his video.

[Greg Miller]

I thought it was just. Yeah, I was min maxing. But like my look, there's a new.

[Tim Gettys]

There's a new wave. It's similar to like, you know, Kevin trying to say gooning and meaning something else. But it's like that word has already been kind of ruined and taken over and all this.

[Greg Miller]

That's crazy.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Damn, Chad, ask yourself, are the folks over at Min Max incels because of this something? If you're watching live, of course be part of this show by super chatting in right now. YouTube.com kindafunnygames with your predictions for the Pokemon presents this Friday, the 30th anniversary. We'll get to all that. So far. Tom Pritchard has super chat and said a lot of unaccounted for shirts. You know what's going on with those shirts out there? Remember, of course, we couldn't do this without our producers over on patreon.com kindafunny so thank you, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney. The softwinding. For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be topic of the show. Gentlemen, we're there. It's happening. This Friday, Pokemon Presents, the annual celebration of Pokemon Day, which of course celebrates the original Japanese release of Pokemon Red and Green in 1996. Meaning this is the 30th anniversary of Pokemon. I'm sure to many of you this isn't surprising news. Maybe you're not even a Pokemon fan because last week Nintendo leaked FireRed and Leaf Green. Right, right, right.

[Greg Miller]

No, they announced it. They just put it on the store without a trailer and then put out a trailer.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Put it on the store at 10:30 at night,

[Tim Gettys]

conveniently coming out the same day as the present.

[Greg Miller]

Definitely not planned for a shadow drop or anything. You know, we got to tee it up so. So they know what to expect.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It really drove a lot of eyes

[Greg Miller]

to the direct because the kids are up watching Adult Swim anyway. They'll be up on the store.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They would be. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Is Adult Swims still up? Is that still a thing?

[Andy Cortez]

Absolutely.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, thank God.

[Andy Cortez]

I just gotta assume that there's somebody at Nintendo just going like. I just didn't think anybody would notice. I wasn't sure.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's one of those. You just tick that box wrong. You just check that box. One of them boxes wrong. Don't catch that. Oh, yeah, we've all been there with an embargo in there. Sucks for that. But we are heading into it. Friday, the 30th anniversary of Pokemon Pokemon Day. It will be a 6am Broadcast. Yes, we will be actually, actually live for it. I will be here as kind of funny as number one Pokemon fan. And then the old man, the one who knows the ancient texts, Tim Gettys will be here as well. He's coming out of paternity leave retirement to come in and react to it. Because we believe theoretically it's going to be that big of a deal. Right, Andy?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I think so. I think that, I mean, we're talking about the first big Nintendo direct slash Pokemon presents where it's like, okay, this is the one where you got to really, really show off the goods.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

This is theoretically not going to be a cross platform Pokemon game.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah, we'll talk about that a little bit.

[Greg Miller]

You don't think it'll be cross gen? You don't think it'll be on Switch one.

[Andy Cortez]

Big stuff, you're crazy. Big stuff.

[Greg Miller]

You're nuts. No.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Blessed are you.

[Andy Cortez]

You gotta sell the Switch two.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Are you expecting.

[Greg Miller]

You gotta sell Pokemon.

[Andy Cortez]

You gotta sell the Switch 2.

[Greg Miller]

Pokemon sell. Well, I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm really.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Are you expecting big things here? Because this is the one. This is the first time ever that we've shown up to a Pokemon day. And I'm excited, I'm juiced, I'm a fan.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And so before, it's always been you guys get up early, you do it. I come into work, Tim's upset, there's a thumbnail, you guys looking disappointed. I'm like, well, what did you expect? What did you expect?

[Greg Miller]

And that's what's going to happen this time, I think. And I. But I still, I don't give a fuck. I'm expecting great things.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

There's a good chance I'll be disappointed. But it's the 30th anniversary, right? It's a big Pokemon year. We expect Gen 10 this year. And I think along with that, I think it was. I think it was Kit and Krista,

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

who are friends of the show Shout Out.

[Greg Miller]

You know, the formerly of Nintendo, they do their show, they talk about a lot of the time the inner workings of Nintendo. And one of the things they mentioned recently was that in Nintendo they don't really make a big thing of anniversaries. Like usually it's a. If we happen to have something happening, then maybe we'll tie it to the anniversary. But Luigi, we're not like trying to reshuffle things to line up with an anniversary Pokemon, however, they are celebratory of things, right? Pokemon will make a thing out of an anniversary. And with this being the 30th one, I'm expecting big things with it being Gen 10 too. I think those are just the marriage of two big momentous occasions for Pokemon that I. I want. I want great things to happen. I think even the leak of Firered and Leaf Green already we're off to a great start.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But here's my question before we dive into actual. All the announcements and things we think and yada yada, yada. Do you think your enjoyment of Friday will be hampered because you know about the Shadow Drop? Cause I feel like you could have a. Not basic, but a. Hey, we're talking about. We're teasing at the very least. Gen 10. We're talking about Pokemon Go's 10th anniversary. There's going to be. I think there's a lot of great stuff to put in here. Right. But let's say none of it was that exciting. But then it would have been. This is all because of red and this all because of green here. And then the build up of here it is, it is out today. I think that would have been like spiking the football a bit on what could be an 8 out of 10 Pokemon Day. That then takes it to that 9 out of 10. And now I worry about, you know, that is coming. They do it, probably lead with it now if they even have the ability to go through and do that. And then it's just gonna be like, okay, well fuck, we knew that one thing. Andy, you're shaking your head. No, you don't.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean it doesn't do a whole lot for me, especially because of what the prices are for the games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

20 bucks for each one.

[Andy Cortez]

20 bucks for each one. And the fact that these aren't games that have. That are like stuck on an architecture like the cell processor. This is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We're not dealing with a Metal Gear Solid Forces.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

If this was one of those sort of situations, like maybe, possibly. But there have been a lot of different ways to play these games over the years.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, illegally or legally. These haven't like been some titles that have just been lost to time where the whole, you know, community is just like desperate to get these games again. It's like, why haven't they remade them? Where have they been? You know, it's like we've had a lot of Kanto. We've had a lot of this region. We've had a lot of, of, you know, revisiting our nostalgia. So it wouldn't have done that much for me, I would say. But that's me personally and I think

[Greg Miller]

I tend to agree with that. I don't think this would have been a monumental show, Shadow Drop. If it was a new remake, then yes. But the fact that this is a re release of a remake from 20 years ago, I just don't think it's that big of a deal. And I don't, and honestly, like, I don't think the price is that bad for it. I, I, for $20, I would buy this and play it. But also I am somebody who has that intense nostalgia for Kanto. I don't mind going back to Kanto because honestly, I played Pokemon Blue, the original, probably like 20 times as a kid. Right. Like, I was obsessed with just replaying this game over and over and over again. And I've allegedly played Firered through different means over the years, but I don't think they've re released it in any official way. Maybe in like virtual Console or something in Wii U, but I don't even know if that's true. So, like, to have another official way to play this I think is cool. My one thing, I guess my two things to kind of go back on that a little bit is that this could have been in the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo Online thing.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Of course.

[Greg Miller]

But of course, like, it's something that you can sell. They know it's sellable, so they're going to do it. Whatever. My other thing is that am I able, and I don't know if you guys talked about this on when this was leaked, am I able to transfer the Pokemon that I capture in this to like Pokemon Home and have that lit, like, can I bring those Pokemon into Pokemon Champions and stuff like that?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So chat, keep me honest on this one because this is one of the things I was reading about when we did the news is. Yes. But later, I believe what's happening is it does have Pokemon, is going to have Pokemon home stuff, but it doesn't launch. Chad, am I right or wrong?

[Greg Miller]

Oh, that's not. If it doesn't launch with it, that's WND right there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're saying it's a strong maybe. Yeah, it'll eventually come. That's what I had heard from other people. I was reading it.

[Greg Miller]

Better have it by the time Pokemon Champions comes out is all I'm gonna say.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's fair enough.

[Greg Miller]

I want to take those Pokemon. I want to go into champions. I want to compete.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay. Correct says some people. Thank you. So I got it. Nailed it. Crushed it. Yeah. You know, we can start there. Yeah. And continue on with the conversation here of Fire Red leaf green. Right. Because outside of that one news of it. We haven't had the chance to have an open discussion at this table. I can't fucking wait. Like, I'm so excited for it. You know, as somebody who has come late to the generation, when I play these games, I love these games. But I obviously understand for you guys who have played so many of them being. There's nothing new under the sun kind of deal here. But it's more for me, the idea that, first off, I love that esthetic. Like, what a great look to a game.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But then the idea of hearing Tim and when I talk about the game, he talks about how the originals were so much better with your rival. And it was this idea in this, like, there wasn't like, don't get me wrong, like a dark story, but there was more to it of, like, not just everybody. Like, I love battling. Less battling.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, that's great.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm so, like. It goes back to what I was going to talk about, but talked about on something else this week. Last week, you know, Animal Crossing, how I miss that edge. Everything's got the rounded edges now. It's such a. Both current Pokemon games and current Animal Crossing games, I feel like, are so, like, hunky dory. Let's all be friends about it. I love the idea of just a little bit of. Not much, but a little bit of

[Andy Cortez]

a corner teeth there. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I was gonna say. I don't know if you're gonna get like, much story.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I hear you. Oh, not story. Just. I mean, the thing of, like, I'm your fucking rival.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I'm gonna be a jerk about it.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. Yeah. I think that you'll get. And I. I'm also excited for people like you. Like you, because I. In my opinion, this is the best way to play Pokemon Red and Blue. Right. Somebody for me, who I played the originals. I played this. I played let's Go, Pikachu and Eevee. And I know you played let's Go.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I did. I did. Let's Go, Eevee. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Yes. I think for me, I would say this is like, the best way to go back to it because this is. It still maintains that feeling of Pixar top down, you're doing that. But then, yes, the aesthetic is great and also has the learnings of gold and ruby and sapphire in those games. And so I think you're getting the best of here with Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green.

[Andy Cortez]

So gorgeous.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So gorgeous. I mean, such a great art style, right? Yeah. To be able to jump back into that. But Then it's my usual story here with it of it's so exciting that when I this leaked at night, I was up late playing Redacted when the next morning, Ben jumped into bed and woke up me and Jen. Once we all got our heads on the straight, that was the first thing I told him and Jen because I knew they'd both be stoked. And we went out there and watched the trailer and Jen's like, I'm coming back. And she's played it like you guys a million times. I'm like, are you doing red or green? She's like, I'm gonna do red. I'm like, I'll do green. And then Ben wants to play on both of them at the same time with us. So it's like this whole thing of like, again, I think what the power of Pokemon really is is that generational. Everybody can be excited for it once and see what's going to happen with it. So I can't wait for Friday. As I've talked about, we imagine everything's going to line up and work flawlessly. Tim and I will react, of course, to the thing live. We will then go into your post gamescast breakdown and then after that, I'm going to stream Pokemon Leaf Green. I'm going to start my adventure with him on my side until we go to games daily at 10 o', clock, hopefully two hours.

[Andy Cortez]

I love that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

A little bit more of that there. But beyond there, I want to talk about predictions for what we're going to get there. So I'm going to go through the bullet points just to say what I think's in the ether and then we can go from there. Jump in wherever we want to. Okay, so Gen 10, I think we have to talk about. And I'll say these are bullet points. We'll start Gen 10, Pokemon Pocopia Fire red, Leaf Green. Pokemon Go, which I already said is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Pokemon Champions, which I feel like there's still a lot to talk about and we haven't heard a lot about. Right?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Pokemon worlds imminently coming, obviously. San Francisco this summer, a Pokemon theme park with Universal. Right. They've talked about in January. They came out and talked about there. We'll talk about it there. I put Pokemon sleep on there because I always like them doing some stupid thing for that. Of course, the trading card game itself. And then trading card game Pocket.

[Greg Miller]

Yep.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Bear, are you still in there every day with the pocket?

[Tim Gettys]

I'm still in the trenches for TCG pocket. Let me tell you I almost have 12,000 cards.

[Greg Miller]

Oh my God.

[Tim Gettys]

And I've a lot of cards. I've gotten Master rank for the last four seasons of the Battle Season. So that. That's where I'm at mentally.

[Greg Miller]

If I can bare it into Magic the Gathering. No, but again, you have. You bring this up every time I bring up.

[Tim Gettys]

TCG Pocket is like the, you know, the safe place where I can have this kind of experience and. And not have a bunch of cards physically in my house.

[Greg Miller]

Like what if Magic arena, you know, you play it on your phone and what if it took over your life? What if you already have that? What if you were handcuffed to this game and you couldn't put it down because addiction.

[Andy Cortez]

I already have that. You could also be stressed by incoming UPS and FedEx deliveries. That.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Where is it? It got delivered, but it's not here.

[Greg Miller]

Where is it scratching your skin?

[Andy Cortez]

Check the auto body shops.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Run up and down. Run up and down the box. Figure it out.

[Andy Cortez]

Camera.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Where.

[Andy Cortez]

Where's those deliveries at?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I also have shows, question mark. Movies, question mark. But again, even taking those off the docket, I think everything I just said, you should get to some degree, which is wild when you compare it. Pokemon Day 2025, 24 and 23, I'd like to read through as well. All right, These are all from IGN. I'm just reading their subhead titles. Okay, so 25 went like this. Pokemon Legends ZA gets a ton of new details in a late 2025 release. Windows. Then multiplayer battle focused Pokemon Champions revealed for Nintendo Switch, iOS and Android. Then Pokemon TCG Pocket to get Arceus themed. Triumphant.

[Andy Cortez]

I think it's Arceus.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's the thing where the audience always gets mad when I go one way or the other with it. Triumphant Light theme booster pack on February 28th. New bullet point. New episodes of Pokemon Concierge will arrive on Netflix in September. New Bullet point Scarlet and Violet to feature mass outbreaks of red, green and blue colored Pokemon. And more. New Bullet Point. Pokemon Go's Unova Tour is kicking off on March 1st. Pokemon unite to add blah, blah, blah. Pokemon Cafe Remix to get new items and adorable outfits. Pokemon Masters Ex to get two new Master Sync parts pairs. That's a lot right there, right? But I think the things we went through at the top of the show, pretty cool. More cool.

[Greg Miller]

I think that's the thing is Pokemon is such a world of things. And so when we think about Pokemon Day, it's not going to be just video game focus like you go through. You talk about the Cards. You talk about the shows, you talk about the theme park. Like it is a celebration of everything going on in the world of Pokemon, including Pokemon worlds. And so the things that you. The bullet points that you are originally listed I think are pretty comprehensive. And then, yeah, I think we'll just get updates on things. I was looking, I don't know if you read both the things yet or if there's another one for you to read, but I was looking at the one from this last July and like one of the things I saw here where I'm like, I forgot this is a thing was Pokemon Tales, the Misadventures of Sirfetch'd.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You're right. What the fuck?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. And so like there's gonna be random shit that are. That's announced where it's like, oh, all right, you're doing a short that's in claymation or something. You know, we're gonna get some of those. And we're also gonna get my guy. Oh, I forget his name. There's like a really well dressed man that works at Pokemon.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, that Hanson dude with the white hair.

[Greg Miller]

With the white hair.

[Tim Gettys]

Glasses.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Can we find that guy?

[Andy Cortez]

He just always looks like he's the, the dude that you speak to in the Pokemon games. Like he's one of those, like he's a professor.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, the princess or whatever. I mean he's like the head, I think, headmaster.

[Andy Cortez]

Like one of the main dudes.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Barrett, searching for you.

[Greg Miller]

I'm looking for him.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So then let's start with the elephant in the room. Pokemon Gen 10. Of course, it has been quite a while since Scarlet and Violet, right? Four years, I believe it is. When usually we're on a three year cycle here.

[Greg Miller]

And honestly, this is his tamest fit.

[Andy Cortez]

And it's still a good fit.

[Greg Miller]

It looks great.

[Andy Cortez]

Kakato Utsunomiya.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Crushed it.

[Greg Miller]

Good looking man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Blessing.

[Greg Miller]

Yes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Gen 10.

[Andy Cortez]

Yes.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

How big are you? Dreaming?

[Greg Miller]

I mean, dreaming big. Expecting not as big.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Small.

[Greg Miller]

Expecting small. Based off of Gen 9 and the Trash fire. That was that. I just want a solid passing grade here. I want a game that's going to look good and run well, you know, And I think run well is not a crazy thing because we're on Switch 2 now. I know Andy mentions this thing could be Switch 2 exclusive. I don't necessarily expect that, but at the very least I think it's going to run well on Switch 2 because Pokemon ZA ran well on Switch 2 and so.

[Andy Cortez]

And ran well on Switch 1 as well. Oh yeah, there you go.

[Greg Miller]

And Pokemon Scarlet and Violet released on Switch 2 and Rainwell if I remember correctly. So that already I have. I have as like my bar and also optimization. I don't want bugs. That's another thing we got to talk about is like bugs and random shit.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Happening that's breaking my game. My character fucking stretching all over the place. I need that stuff to be honed in.

[Andy Cortez]

Was that ever an issue in recent.

[Greg Miller]

In. In Scarlet and Violet. Yeah, Scarlet and Violet. I don't know if you remember.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I remember the frame rate being trash.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean I just had pop in.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I remember chat. Correct me if I'm misremembering this. I feel like Scarlet and Violet, you would see YouTube videos of like character stretching and like just weird, crazy.

[Tim Gettys]

There's a lot of weird stuff going on that people were expecting. Experiencing.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Game crashing. I went and rewatched IGN's review of it and even in the start of the review they show. The first thing they showed was the game crashing.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh.

[Greg Miller]

And so I needed that. I need that stuff fixed, which is like bare minimum type stuff. Beyond that, I want to be surprised and delighted. Yeah. Barrett has footage here of some of the.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's just dancing.

[Andy Cortez]

That's part of it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, this is part of it.

[Greg Miller]

I want to be surprised and delighted. I want region.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean this happens in Bethesda games all the time. I mean as a dude walking through the camera.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Stuff like this. I remember seeing a lot of people

[Andy Cortez]

post, oh, like this, man. I don't have any of that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's just ditto. That's a ditto ditto.

[Greg Miller]

I mean to be fair, I also didn't get like a crazy amount of that. Maybe like once or twice I would have some weird shit happen.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But so then while we're here having this conversation to go back to what Andy was saying. Do you think this is a cross gen?

[Greg Miller]

Yes, 100.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Why?

[Greg Miller]

Because Pokemon is a very high selling franchise and I think it's Pokemon company I think is separate enough from just Nintendo to where they look at copy sold and revenue as being a driver separate from trying to move hardware. I think the point of Pokemon is to move software more so than anything because the software ripples out into everything else of like cards and shows and everything else. So I think for them they look at that being more priority than trying to push Switch 2 as a console.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So I don't think you're wrong. I hope you're wrong. I hope it's Switch to exclusive. I hope that blah, blah. I think I know the answer. On what I would argue but I want to put you on the spot here then why is Pocopia Switch to exclusive?

[Greg Miller]

Oh that's a really good question. I don't know. That's what I mean. I would genuinely say genuinely say to that. I don't know. I can get into like my head canon strategy which I don't think they're thinking that deeply about it. But like you know Switch one already has Animal Crossing like Switch two. We can be the first there as far as this cozy Nintendo like yeah Life sim experience. I would say that but and also I would say that Pokemon new gens are going to just are a higher seller. Like that's immediately the sales.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That would be my higher if I was arguing this in a debate club. Right. Like we do every day here on these shows. Live all day long. That would be me as well. Where a spin off is not a gen. Yeah. A Gen 10 is even if it was Gen 9 or Gen 11. Right. Not a big number that is such a bigger deal than a spin off life sim. I again hope that they're going yes it is. And we see with every Pokemon game we've ever launched that if we launch it exclusively on Switch 2 it will sell gangbusters for the next decade. We don't need to worry about the return on investment right now. And this benefits Nintendo more to bring

[Tim Gettys]

in the real world stuff of this. Right. Nintendo kind of paying attention to the memory loss situation. Thinking about the ramifications for the next couple of years. I do. It takes me back to a lot of you know we have to remember, you know there's a lot of cross gen titles coming out for PlayStation. Right. God of War, Ragnarok, a few other titles early on in the PS5 generation. And I think that was beneficial for them especially when we had like that big crisis of like resources like not getting where they needed to in the in the middle of COVID Right. To help software sales because people still had a PS4 but it was really hard to get a PS5 for a while. I do wonder if they worry about the accessibility of Switch 2 with memory loss coined by one Andy Cortez.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you Andy.

[Tim Gettys]

And I do see more of blessingside of them wanting that to get everywhere because again the launch of a new generation is important to sell that software.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

My counter to that counter would be is but his memory loss too far down the timeline because this would have been a decision you would have made a long time ago. Right. That if we're going to we're Switched to exclusive.

[Greg Miller]

Awesome.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We'll sell a lot of units and then by the time we get here it's already too late.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, this isn't necessarily something you could just go, well we could just scale back right now to give two arguments

[Greg Miller]

in favor of my point and then a major argument against my point. Yeah, the ones in favor I Pokemon Scarlet and Violet sold 10 million in like three days. It was the fastest selling first party exclusive game I think of all time. And so I think you look at numbers like that and go, well 100 million people have switch ones. You know, we want to be able to replicate that type of like monumental sales on like first week. Not that it has to be first week but like I think when you have that install base you can push that. I think also people are throwing out there the history of Pokemon. Pokemon is usually a console exclusive thing. I think this is the first gen where it makes more sense. Like you're talking about the jump from 3Ds to switch one. Like of course that wasn't going to be cross launch. When you're talking about, you know, DS to 3DS or Game Boy advance. Like none of that would have really made sense in a way that I think this generation it makes the most sense. The thing that's against what I'm saying is that people in chat are informing that there have been leaks and the leaks are saying that Switch is a Switch to exclusive.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, I know and we play with that information knowing that. But I also don't know how credible those have been. I've seen title and all this other stuff, but I think it's interesting discusses. This is gonna take.

[Tim Gettys]

Sorry, one final counterpoint to your counterpoint, Greggy. While the memory loss situation is more recent, they're them trying to figure out the headwinds of, you know, our current administration and them, you know, seeing that for the last couple years, I think that could also be a factor in maybe not deciding this year because of memory loss. But thinking about it a year and

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

a half ago, you know, Pandora, Santa, super chats and says with DLC for Gen 10 coming in 2027 and no new game till 2028, Switch 2 only Pokemon will have a long sales tail that will make up Switch one, which

[Greg Miller]

again definitely have a long.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think that's we talk about memory loss, we talk about terror suck, all that stuff like that is such a in the moment right now thing where even though it'll take a while to catch up, Switch 2 is going to be here a Long time and I do think they see that. But I also understand wanting your money right away. But back from.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm also just trying to speak it into 100% trying to speak into it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No, that's my thing too is like I set my expectations that it'll be everywhere because of money and I'll be incredibly excited. If it switched to. We committed to this.

[Greg Miller]

If it switched to exclusive. How much better do we think this game looks than the previous generation?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Big question.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, it's just. It'll definitely just not be hell. Well, it all comes down to just how sped up they were during development because you know the stuff that they pulled off with Pokemon Za and the complaints that people had of like these walls are just flat ass PNG textures. There's no polygons like you know, on the, the trim of the building or whatever the hell. It's all just texture, texture work. The complaints there don't have anything to do with scaling back for Switch 1 because you could have still done a lot more to make that game look better and still have it run the same on Switch one. It all just comes down to how quick are their deadlines and how quick are their turnarounds now without. With the Switch two out of the picture. If you're developing without that in mind, you could still do a lot more environmental wise with lighting and with. With shadows and things like that and not. And that also slows down. I, I think if anything it also helps out with development overall because if you're only, you know, developing for one console, you're not having to worry about optimizing for the other thing as well. And so that definitely adds back. Adds more to the development like timeline. But unless until we get like a fucking deep dive documentary as to how these games are made, will never know or be able to predict how they do things over the documentary is going to look like.

[Greg Miller]

You ever see the behind the scenes of south park where. Yeah, South Park City. Made in real time.

[Andy Cortez]

Seven days to air.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Seven days to air. Yeah. I feel like that's Pokemon like the. For game freak of like yo, we got. We got six months and thing, bro.

[Andy Cortez]

And like granted, whenever that documentary comes out, it will not be official or authorized.

[Greg Miller]

They will.

[Andy Cortez]

It will be just like guerrilla camera footage of like, you know, undercover hidden cameras and stuff. Because I just don't. I. Whatever they're doing over there development wise has got to be just the most rushed crunch stuff of all time. Like every year. Every year.

[Greg Miller]

I need. If you are listening or watching this and you run a comedy sketch channel. I need you to steal that idea and like run with it.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Of like, you know, the behind the scenes of them making Pokemon Scarlet and like being crunched on time and all that stuff because. Yeah. No, that it strikes me as like comedic levels of shit. Like we do not have time to make this. Oh, it doesn't run well. It's shippable. Just ship. Just get it out the door. We got a few weeks.

[Andy Cortez]

The whole city's on one cylinder. You know, like ZA level one circle.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, just do it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So then in this Gen 10 conversation blessing, as you dream, are you dreaming big enough that there'll be voiceover man?

[Greg Miller]

I wish. No, I'm not. But like, I mean if I'm dreaming. Yes. If I'm realistically trying to measure my expectations. No, I, I just don't, I, I don't see it. I, I, I think I'll believe, I'll believe it when I see it. That's the thing is I don't expect it until they actually put out a game that has voice acting. But with the timeline that they're on with Pokemon, I just don't believe that they're able to, to, to, to make it happen. What about you?

[Andy Cortez]

No shot. No shot that they do this. And I don't, I'm at the point now where it's like, I don't know if it'll ever happen.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Wow.

[Andy Cortez]

I just think that that time has come and gone. And in the same way that I don't ever expect Link to speak in a Zelda game, I don't ever expect voice acting in Pokemon games. And it's unfortunate that we've been conditioned to feel that way, but. Or I've been conditioned to feel that way.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No. As everybody has been. I think. You know what I mean? That's the thing. Yeah. I'm right there with you guys. Of like, I dream of it, but I can't expect it. And like of course being kind of funny, he's number one Pokemon fan. I'm being interviewed left and right for this 30th anniversary. And article over on one more catch site went live today where I have this quote where I'm talking about it and I'm saying everything we're saying. Right. Of like it's a fool's errand. But my hope is that it competes with modern turn based RPGs. Right. Coming off of VO. Sure. But even Monster Hunter Stories 3, the demo I did. Right. And like just the way you take it for granted, like Every other game does turn based battles of like, here comes your fucking wrathy. And it's slamming in. There's all these cutscenes and color and sound effects or whatever. And then you jump to Pokemon. It's just like the most silent fucking game in the world. This is. These amazing things happen. Like, as I wrote, if this, if this, if it, if this one doesn't matter, I doubt we'll ever see a major move in the mainline series of like. This has been glacial. And that's what's going to be interesting for me. Going back to where it all began. Granted a remake of it, but going back to where it all began and being like, how much does this feel like I'm just dropped into the same games I'm already playing 30 years later.

[Greg Miller]

We gotta. We gotta talk about the fact that they. They hit up Greg to do the quote for kind of funny for the

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Pokemon number one Pokemon fan. I don't know if you know that

[Andy Cortez]

he is the number one Pokemon fan. Bless.

[Greg Miller]

Like, yeah, but like I wrote my

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

other one for the other side right

[Greg Miller]

before this and sent it off another site. Multiple sites are asking you about Pokemon.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's right.

[Andy Cortez]

Multiple people are reaching out to it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

There's a new reality here. All right. You can go be fighting game Poppy. You can be Perry Poppy. I'm the one out in the. I'm the one out here buying.

[Greg Miller]

I was born into this. I remember when they aired episode one of Pokemon the anime.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Did you sleep with Armarouge last night? I did. Sleeping bed. He had a bad dream. It's me, Armarouge.

[Andy Cortez]

I'll tell you who that is.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You two were hanging out in the bed. Remember that?

[Tim Gettys]

Ho.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh.

[Greg Miller]

In the first episode was flying. Everybody was like, what's that? And then we wouldn't know for another generation.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Were you there?

[Andy Cortez]

They were just dropping hints left and right.

[Greg Miller]

That ain't right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

It's the new generation.

[Greg Miller]

All right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Clearly voice of the new generation of Pokemon fan.

[Greg Miller]

Where would you guys want the region to be based? Like if you just had to like take a guess or put out just a dream. A dream scenario of where they're.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, this is where it gets interesting. Of how hard are they leaning into 30th. Right when they were doing all this and drawing this up and getting to where it was like, oh, Gen 10 is going to be the 30th. Because I think then you go back to Canada.

[Greg Miller]

Oh my God.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I think. I think it makes perfect sense of like in, like it. So in this many years have Passed. This is what it is, yada, yada, yada. But like to the way they did, even, even as not being. Not knowing the ancient texts, not knowing the source material. When I was playing Za and they're calling in all this old stuff and I was like, wait, Tim is this. And he's like, oh my God, you don't even understand. It's a sequel to this. Not a sequel. It's like, oh, that's really fucking cool. People showing up, talking about time lapse shit where it's like, damn, I can walk in a new Pokemon fan, play all this shit and enjoy it, but then meet interesting characters. I'm like, wait, what? How is this tied to that? Wait, how did you know about this guy? It's fucking cool.

[Andy Cortez]

So we could just go around the world and see what. So what voids there are, right? Because sure, Kanto, Johto and Hoenn are all Japan. Yeah. Sino is Hokkaido, Japan. Unova is New York City. Palos is France, Alola is Hawaii, Galar is the UK and Paldea, Spain. So I'm thinking like maybe Australia.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, interesting.

[Andy Cortez]

Based on certain leaks though, I've seen what things have been leaked and I'm like, okay, I wish it was Australia.

[Greg Miller]

Still see, I wrote down Egypt. I think there's so much iconography that is recognizable from Egyptian culture that you could easily pull that into Pokemon designs and go crazy with them.

[Andy Cortez]

I guess we have Persian Kangaskhan on the COVID for Australia.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, I like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sure.

[Greg Miller]

The legendary. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And you know what? It I'm feeling generous. Throw New Zealand in there too. Wow. They get tossed in as well.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Come to modern day America. We ain't put them in balls anymore. They're in cages. What is over here? Tricky Cappa wrote in, said, I just need gen 10 to fight back a little bit. The last few games have been so easy that I feel like I'm playing them on autopilot and not getting to know the Pokemon. And this is another complaint as a new person coming in that I had where I got laughed at by all of you, but I fucking stand by it. I did a Greg way when I had gone back to Violet and was playing that. I'm having a great time and I was talking about it might have even been the dlc, but like, I was lots of hours into Pokemon Violet when I was like, I did a Greg where I'm like, man, I'm having trouble with this battle. It's hard because it was the first time the game ever actually challenged me to remember or do anything where everything else has been. I go in there, I slam into them. Then I look at the thing like this, super effective. Use that. Like I didn't for the longest time. And people were thought I was crazy when I said I didn't pay attention to the types because it just doesn't matter. In modern Pokemon, I feel like where you, here's your starter and you start leveling that motherfucker up and then he's just killing everything, just everything. And then eventually you meet somebody who's like, okay, cycle in. What do I need? Yada, yada, yada. But that's so late in the game that I feel like it strikes me when I talk to Jen and mainly it's Ben when he goes, mommy, what's what? What's this week to that? And she goes and gives him the whole fucking dissertation of how it is in the breakdown of this. And it's like I've just never had to consume the media that way. And I know so much of it is the show, which I get from watching the show.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But it's also the games where it's just like modern games. I feel like it's just for the most part isn't challenging until it is.

[Andy Cortez]

I wish Experience Share was less extreme.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, that's crazy.

[Andy Cortez]

It's like, it's too much. Dial it back by like 15%, 20%

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

maybe you want to grind.

[Andy Cortez]

I, I don't, I, I just want to feel like I, like I worked for my jabroni ass dude that I, that I just found a little while ago and suddenly he's six levels behind my starter. I'm like, damn. Like, I didn't have to do jack for you. Huh?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's fair. That's fair. I like that.

[Andy Cortez]

Like I didn't really. You didn't have to work for it. You just got here and now you're, you know what?

[Greg Miller]

I, I, well I, I, I agree. I'm not saying I want to go first at first. I like buckled because I remember the, I remember the pre Experience Share days. But you know, I think dialing back,

[Andy Cortez]

I don't want to gone completely.

[Tim Gettys]

I think Experience share works for RPGs with like already like set cast where you only have like eight party members. But in a game where you have like infinite amount of dudes in your box.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And like wanting to feel that investment. I do think there's a little bit of like XP share, you know, diluting down your investment in your team.

[Andy Cortez]

I like finding a lower level dude and going, I Can't wait to work you up.

[Greg Miller]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

I want to like get in your moves and like figure you. And to the point where, you know, a lot of that is the. The doom Twitter meme of, you know, you control the buttons you press. But I often just forget that I even have to work you up because you're my starter's level 40 and now you're already a 34. Like, damn, I didn't really have to do anything for you, you know, one

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

here before the ad break. Rye Beard Art says, I just want Gen 10 to have an actual art style, like a prettier Legends Arceus. But let's be real, it won't. That's another thing of going when I fell in love and then went back, you know, playing so much Violet, even Za, I would say, and jumping back to Shield. Yeah, like, oh, fuck, this looks not. I mean, it looked shitty out of Switch too. It's like muddy, but it's like, damn, you had an art style here that I really like.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah. I agree about Pokemon Sword and Shield. And I think once we got out of the DS, 3DS needing to account for. All right, we got pixel art. We got trying to make this work for the 3Ds. Let's try to make it cute. Let's try to make it work. As we gotten further into the Switch era, we definitely lost some of that. And I wonder how much that comes back to the crunch time in which they had to put this thing out to where they're not able to consider something a bit more, you know, dialed in. As far as art style. I 100% agree. I would love to see them. It doesn't have to be that dynamic. Just pick a style.

[Andy Cortez]

Bring back let's Go Style, man. We've been, you know, recipes Tim, we love him, we miss him. We'll be hearing from very soon, hopefully,

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

but we'll bring in a Ouija board.

[Andy Cortez]

The let's Go style is kind of what I want from this. And if we could get the let's Go style with, you know, a bit more up res or whatever, with whatever power the Switch 2 offers, I'd be super happy with that.

[Tim Gettys]

I just was the like following up on the vision of the 3DS games.

[Andy Cortez]

To me, yeah, yeah, I think so. I just, I really just love the shading and the, the color work that they're. That they're doing here. And a lot of that has to do with being limited by the Switch. And you know, just like when we look at older games and what they had to do with what they were given. Like that's kind of we're seeing a lot of the the work of what the limitations are in the Switch 1 hardware, but it's still like just such an appealing cute style and I want to go back to that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

The great PXM Lord8342 says never been more excited for the announcement while at the same time dreading the discourse afterwards. And of course we'll be knee deep in that reaction, that announcement and that discord. Friday 6am Pacific we will be live to watch along with you and see what Pokemon Presents has for us. And it's only because you support us with Kinda Funny memberships. Go pick one up YouTube.com kinda funnygames, Apple, Spotify and of course patreon.com kinda funny to get all of our shows ad free. Get your daily dose of me Greg Miller in a series we call Greg Gwe and of course get good karma for supporting an 11 year old 11 person small business. But right now you're not using your benefits. So here's a word from our sponsors. This episode is brought to you by five Hour Energy Meet the energy shot that tastes just like birthday cake Confetti craze Extra strength five Hour Energy Taste like a rich buttery vanilla birthday cake, frosting and all. Light the candles, make a wish and get ready to celebrate with every sip. Feel unsafe, unstoppably energized with as much caffeine as your favorite 12 ounces fancy coffee but with zero sugar and zero sugar crashes. For more information and to get the party started, visit five Hour Energy or Amazon today.

[Tim Gettys (pre-recorded message)]

What's up? It's Tim Gettys. I miss y' all so very very much, But I have three Pokemon Day predictions for you. First off, the Hopium one voice acting in the Gen 10 trailer. It's not too much to ask for but somehow it really really is. But hey, fingers crossed that we get that. The one that I'm gonna say is definitely a slam dunk prediction for me personally is that the coolest looking starter is going to be the grass one. Grass types are like my least favorite type so that just feels like it's just, you know, something against me in the air. So expect the the grass one to be the coolest looking design and then my final one. This is just a gut feeling predict know it's starting to bother me a little bit. Is gen 10 going to be on the switch one as well? Is Pokemon really going to put its foot down as being hey we're going to be the system seller for the Switch 2. Will Nintendo force that? Or are they going to be like, yo, we want to be on the 150 million. Whatever it was. Switches.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know, Missy.

[Greg Miller]

We'll see.

[Andy Cortez]

We miss him.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I don't like that he sent you that. I don't like that he sent you that. Should have sent it to me so I can make sure I didn't go on the air. You know, what are we eating for him?

[Greg Miller]

Block him one. I'll throw out there for a soundtrack. I want Toby Fox to do even more of the music.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That'd be awesome.

[Greg Miller]

Toby Fox, he does like a few tracks here and there in Pokemon games, or at least he has done that recently. He even did music for. I think the game was called Little Town Hero. It might have changed just Town. I forget what they called it. But he did music for that as well. Game freak seems to like partnering with him. And Toby Fox always. He puts out the bangers. He's one of my favorite video game composers, so I'd like to hear more

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

from him in the buildup to this and, you know, the hype going. I've been reading a lot of different other site predictions and the one thing I think that's. I've seen that I thought was interesting was them scuttlebutting a little bit of if it doesn't come out this year that we just. What if we just got a teaser for gen 10 at this one and it's a 2027 game?

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, that would make me honestly, really happy. I would love for them to delay a Pokemon with it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay, okay.

[Andy Cortez]

And take more time on it. Like I, you know, like Za just came out.

[Tim Gettys]

It felt like.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And it's that thing where ZA is so recent. Popia is next month on the. I have it on my thing. I guess the fifth and then Pokemon Champions is coming sometime this year. So even if you took out Za, we're talking that's the third game this year is going to be gen 10 in. In GTA.

[Andy Cortez]

Right.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, one of my predictions was that it'll come out on November 13th, exactly one week before GTA 6. I don't think they give a about GTA with Pokemon.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sure, sure, fair enough.

[Greg Miller]

But also, I think you guys make really good points as far as how much Pokemon we've gotten recently, especially with Hocopia coming up.

[Andy Cortez]

I'd be super happy about it. I mean, I would probably get way too unrealistically happy about what they can do with the extra time. And like, I would get way too stoked about. Wow, can you imagine? With the. With extra development time. And then I would probably end up being disappointed. So maybe I don't want that. Yeah, maybe I just wanted to come out. Who knows?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Moving on to my next bullet point I have on here, of course, Procopia, March 5th. It's got to be there on this thing to celebrate, remind you and get you to go buy it or whatever. Do you think it's just a trailer?

[Andy Cortez]

Do you think it's demo available now?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, that'd be fun.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. Demo. A deeper dive into this weird.

[Greg Miller]

I think we'll for sure get it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You've played it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And Animal Crossing meets Dragon Quest Warrior. Dragon Quest Builders meets Minecraft.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, Minecraft. Yeah. I think there's much to be talked about with Pokemon Popia. I could easily see them deep diving into some more of the mechanics that maybe they let Press get a hands on on. But people haven't actually gotten to really experience as much. I could see them breaking down some of like, you know, when I talk about. All right, cool. The ditto that you're playing as can adopt different abilities from different Pokemon that he meets. And also, you know, you can recreate habitats of Pokemon to draw them in. And like, you know, that collection aspect of it already. I'm like, man, this is really cool. Like, I really, like, seems to be. It seems deep. And I feel like we barely scratched the surface of what's there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

So into the point of what we've been talking so much with. Oh, is it switch one switch to yada, yada, yada. This is the weekend where I saw my algorithms infected with people. Mad that it's not coming to switch these people. This is it. I got to go buy a switch too. Of course, Chat's pointing it out. We do know tomorrow there is a treehouse from Nintendo that is Pocopia and the. Oh, there you go. The stuff for Mario. Wonder what did the baby park.

[Greg Miller]

That's a good call.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They'll have more there. But I think you still have to put in Pokemon direct. I wonder, you know, Pokemon, as a Violet guy is always so good with, hey, here's this code to go download to go get the thing.

[Greg Miller]

Violet.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What? I'm sorry, what?

[Greg Miller]

I sound violent violence.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sorry.

[Greg Miller]

As a violent man.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You know what I mean? I wouldn't be surprised if they did something in there of like a code to redeem. Maybe you're right. A demo would be great. Obviously.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, I honestly could See this. Getting the most time at the thing, I guess. Well, with the treehouse happening tomorrow, maybe that does take that spot. But I feel like this is. Aside from a possible Gen 10, this would be the biggest Pokemon thing coming out this year.

[Andy Cortez]

I get really excited about the possibility of like the future of the game where at launch we get whatever Pokemon types that help you out with certain things. And there's such a cool playground to play with of a year from now or eight months from now, whatever DLC drops. And it's now we're adding fairy type Pokemon that allow you to do this now with the world. And this is how you interact with fairy types. And. And now here's what Dark Pokemon do. You know, like. Yeah, to kind of like. I think it'd be a really neat way to kind of continue to interact with whatever playground they're building for us.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

You talk about dlc. Are we going to see DLC for Zother? We had in the Mega Dimension stuff drop already. And I'm a little out of my wheelhouse because for me as a vile lit guy, obviously there was two pieces of DLC there, right. And it was a big deal. But they had been announced ahead of time. Whereas of course with Pokemon Za, they said, hey, we're doing the Mega Dimension thing before they even released. It's out. Do we get something else here for that? That's a game I feel is so recent. You do support in some way. Again, maybe it is a code or something you're dropping that we go install to get.

[Greg Miller]

That's where you guys thought.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I would just have to look back. Like I'm just trying to think of how many DLCs were there for prior. For Arceus or.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, good point.

[Andy Cortez]

I wouldn't see a large massive. This is a huge DLC drop. But I could definitely see a download code for a new thing that's available and it not being this gigantic hullabaloo, you know.

[Greg Miller]

Can I throw out like a handful of predictions?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, I'd love it, please.

[Greg Miller]

I think with us talking about 30th anniversary, I expect this. My prediction would be that this is the biggest Pokemon day yet. And so I. I think we'll get a handful of new games. At least. I'm predicting a handful of new games. I think you could get a new Pokemon pinball.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Pokemon Pinball was a big deal during the, I believe GBA era. Pokemon, a new Pokemon Snap I think could be really neat.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Then we just get how. How I know, I mean like three or four years ago. Time's a flat circle. Yeah. So. I know.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And you didn't set the world on fire.

[Tim Gettys]

It didn't.

[Tim Gettys (pre-recorded message)]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

But has that ever stopped them? I feel like they like trying weird things. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, they love doing that as well. And then I. Right here, a new Pokemon minigame collection akin to the ones in Pokemon Stadium, but it'll have some type of monkey's paw. Like, it'll be mobile exclusive or something like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay. Okay. Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Man. I'm just. I'm thinking bigger and I'm thinking. I'm thinking it's just an announcement with a logo treatment, but for several years in development, we've been working on the Pokemon Online massive multiplayer video game. Wow. It's called Pokemon World. And it. I don't. I guess maybe a handful of the different regions, but it's their Switch 2. We are making an online video game, the MMO that you've always been talking about. And there have already been rumors, but it's like there hasn't been anything super concrete yet.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

But I think that we don't get a glimpse of it. We don't even see. We just get a logo similar to what we got with the. Like the. Was. Was the wind and waves thing a leak?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's.

[Greg Miller]

Leak.

[Andy Cortez]

They never officially confirmed it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

No.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Wind and Waves.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's the rumor title.

[Andy Cortez]

Gen 10 for Gen 10. Yeah. Oh, I think we get a logo. I think we just get like a. And for the future. We don't have anything to share with you right now, but here's what we've been doing for the last several years, and it's big. Mmo. Big. Like, big blowout. I mean, we'll have more to say in the future.

[Greg Miller]

I would. Who do you think is working on it?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Blue Point.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't even know if they.

[Greg Miller]

Pokemon Blue Point.

[Andy Cortez]

I. I would have no idea with how many different sections Nintendo's like, make

[Greg Miller]

it in six months.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, no, I. I just. I think this thing's been in development for many a year or at least in. In, you know, production. Pre production. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

When he says Bandai. Namco, which Bandai partnered with Nintendo on a lot of those bigger projects before, so that makes sense. That'd be really cool. I would love something like that. It feels.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, it's the dream, you know, it's the dream.

[Greg Miller]

It feels un Nintendo, like, but I guess it does feel a little bit Pokemon company. Like, in a weird way, just for a comp. Just for a company that makes any and every kind of spinoff that they can. Yeah, right. And like a company that is also not afraid to try to lean into those trends that are happening. Like Pokemon Unite is the biggest example of oh, mobas are taking off. All right, let's try it with Pokemon. See what we, what we can do. And they made it happen. And people love Pokemon Unite. So Pokemon mmo. The only thing that I think would hold it back for me is like the amount of commitment that I know they understand it would take and maybe the fear of that commitment. But it'd be cool.

[Andy Cortez]

God, it would be the dream, my dream coming in.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What do you got?

[Tim Gettys]

My dream. Fire Red, Leaf Green are not the only throwback titles we get for 2026. I think we get Gold and Silver as well. But I think. And I think they announced that on Friday. But I think you know, Fire Red, Leaf Green coming out today. Gold and Silver Heart Gold. I think so because there have been other developers who have been able to figure out like kind of like reconfiguring that like two screen experience. So I don't think it would be that hard to port to switch to. Right. And so I think maybe we get that sometime in summer.

[Greg Miller]

That'd be cool. Yeah. One of my predictions that I wrote down last week before we delayed the episode was the Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green thing. And then they announced it. But under that I had as well Pokemon like regular Pokemon Red and Blue and regular Pokemon Gold and Silver get released on Nintendo Online. But part of my prediction was that those would be the ones that would be out today. And then Fire Red and Souls or Fire Red and Leaf Green would be later. But already that's out the window.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah, a lot of super chats in there about similar things of dropping, you know, older Pokemon games. Kebab says Gens 1 through 3 released on the eShop across the year, but not DS onward because of the touch controls. Despite any. Or they say despite Castlevania Dominus collection solving it.

[Andy Cortez]

You know I would love to see.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

What's that?

[Andy Cortez]

Nintendo loves giving us old looks at hardware. Looks at old hardware. And I would love to see similar to what they've done with you know, the classics re releases of their consoles or whatever. Virtual Boy, I would love to see like a. An $80 probably wouldn't be. That would probably be like 140.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Like classic Game Boy with the cartridges that. With the red, blue and yellow cartridges that don't do anything. They're not even games. It's just like they're for decoration. But it's like this plays Pokemon. It is just an emulator handheld thing. We're just reselling the old Game Boy. We redid it to where it's like just running emulation inside of it. But I want to just see that like, thing come back. That or like a Game Boy color.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, that would be. That'd be such a good idea because I would buy the shit out.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Like maybe not for $140, but if they're able to get that out under a hundred dollars. Oh my God. Yeah. 99.99999. Like I'll buy a game. A fake Game Boy that plays actual.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Games.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Kevo says my head in the clouds predictions is we get old Pokemon games on the eShop every month leading into Gen 10. We may end up with Gens 1 through 7 playable on Switch.

[Andy Cortez]

That'd be crazy.

[Tim Gettys]

That's a pie in the sky version of my thing. I think at best we get bites of the first two gens. That.

[Andy Cortez]

That would be.

[Tim Gettys]

That. That'd be awesome.

[Greg Miller]

I want a release date for Pokemon Champions.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was getting there. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. I'm weirdly looking forward to it. I know somebody earlier in chat said blessing playing that, but like, I. I was such a Pokemon Stadium kid and I know this is not Pokemon Stadium. I know this is probably more akin to Pokemon Battle Revolution for the Wii, which I also played and I dropped that very quickly.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But can I read a synopsis in case people. I know you've come this far. You probably do know. But just in case. Battle with Pokemon, including the Mega Evolved Pokemon like Mega Dragonite against other players in Pokemon Champions game, the same game that will be used for the Pokemon World Championship in 2026. These single and double battles use familiar mechanics from previous Pokemon games such as Pokemon types, abilities and moves, enabling the rich and varied battle strategies you may already know and love. Compete in ranked battles against players from all over the world, or try casual battles for some easygoing fun. You can also have private battles with you and your friends and family. Recruit Pokemon to join your team and train them to hone their skills. Before you venture into the world of Pokemon battles, try finding Pokemon to fight alongside you once per day. You can recruit Pokemon on a trial basis and use them in battle to see if they're a good fit for your style. Once you've found a match, use your in game victory points to bring Pokemon onto your team. You can also use vp that's victory points, Tim. To train the permanent members of your Pokemon squad. Hone their attack defense and other stats and even alter their abilities and move to try out different strategies in battle. Pokemon Champions will be compatible with Pokemon Home, the cloud service for Nintendo Switch 2 and Switch systems and mobile devices. That means, in addition to the Pokemon partners available in Pokemon Champions, you can also team up with certain Pokemon brought over from past Pokemon series games in Pokemon Go.

[Andy Cortez]

How good is a character creator? That's all I want to know in this, because I'll probably just create a character and just like, never play.

[Greg Miller]

Wait, did it say Pokemon? Did it say character creator?

[Andy Cortez]

Well, I mean, I see that there's a trainer in the back there, and you're playing some trainer right there.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Oh, Rep Valentine there.

[Greg Miller]

I feel like you're just gonna pick from presets, like, here's four trainers.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah. I don't expect you to have a lot of training.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Because that's options. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

But, like, I mean, they just wouldn't do that anyway.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I'm excited for this. Like, I. I like the idea of being able to. Especially being able to take Pokemon that are in Pokemon Home.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Because that's what will get me to actually use it. The idea that I can just go online, match up with random people, and get into Pokemon battles, for me, that's the dream. That's like, you know, taking me back to. Again, what I loved about stadium was usually renting Pokemon and just doing the random battles or whatever. I love this. I love that they're doing this. A lot of people are shouting out Pokemon Showdown as well, which this seems to be just the newer, official version of that I was not familiar with. But, yeah, this seems really cool.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

This summer.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

I was going to say, how imminent is this release date? You know what I mean? That's the bigger question.

[Greg Miller]

My prediction would be like, June, July, when is Pokemon? When's the next Pokemon Champion?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Worlds is in August here in San Francisco, which I do think we'll hear about at some point on this. I had on my list of things

[Greg Miller]

going on maybe like, May then you think, I think would come out before that. Right.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They said maybe they try to do, like, a wizard thing, though. Right. Where it, like, drops around. Then I've. I've absolutely no idea how you would bring your team in and all that jazz. But, yeah, I'm throwing it out there. Possible. Like I said to Pokemon, Go turns 10 this year, which is outrageous to think about. I imagine they're going to go hard in the yard as well for both anniversaries. What they will show tomorrow, I don't. Or On Friday, I don't know, they

[Andy Cortez]

finally took off that Pokestop on Epstein Island.

[Greg Miller]

Wait, did they really have a poke stop there?

[Andy Cortez]

Maybe the Internet tricked me, but I mean, it was a funny meme.

[Greg Miller]

You could, you could submit for Pokemon for Pokestop. So I like the idea of like. Actually, no, I hate the idea.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, you should.

[Greg Miller]

Because then I think deeper about it.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Takes you to real dark place.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Very quickly, do we think we're going to hear about the world class Pokemon attraction coming to Universal Studios last month? I'm reading from Nintendo Life. Ollie Reynolds wrote up over there. The Pokemon company Universal Studios have announced that a world class Pokemon attraction will become a Universal Studio theme parks in Japan and global locations. Described as an interactive Pokemon experience that will simulate all five senses, stimulate all five senses. The attraction will debut at Universal Studios Japan before heading out globally. This presumably includes parks in Orlando, Los Angeles, yada, yada yada.

[Andy Cortez]

If not tomorrow, if or if not this week, then when. You know, like, I feel like that sounds like a perfect time to if you got nothing to show, show off some concept art, show off some ideas for what you know is planned when it comes to rides or collectible things within the, you know, the way, the way Mario Land does. Like the little wristbands.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, little cute interactions.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

And then. Yeah, then you're into stuff like sleep. Like I joked about the actual card came pocket shows, tv. I expect some kind of new show to be out there, a new season or whatever. I don't even know.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I mean you're going to get all, all of those in some different way or form the Pokemon. I feel like there's a new Pokemon show announced at every single one of these. So I'm like wonder. And I know they come out too. I just don't watch them. But like, I'm like, man, how many shows are y' all working on over there? Because I feel like they've done every

[Andy Cortez]

format now and we see the behind the scenes. It's like, dude, there's a lot of stop motion. Yeah, that's got to be the most expensive to fun.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Diving into some super chats here. Of course. Bander Sn tosses that poking tournament too.

[Greg Miller]

Man, I, I'd be down for that. I didn't play much of one because I didn't own a Wii U. And then I wasn't gonna buy it for Switch, but a new one, Hell yeah. Like, let's do it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Killian doubles down on blessings prediction. My prediction is that Toby Fox won't do just a few songs. He'll be the main composer for gen 10.

[Greg Miller]

I would love that. I would love that so much. I don't know.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

But Jay Farelli says Champions detaching the competition scene from the main RPG is sure to have an impact on how Gen 10 operates. Big shifts in store.

[Greg Miller]

Interesting.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Which is an interesting. Yeah, I thought about that. Everybody wants to talk about Gen 10, of course. Jason says my Gen 10 wish experience share should be toggled on and off. The gyms could be replayable with difficulty scaling.

[Andy Cortez]

That would be pretty.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

That's really good. And then Huey says, what are we thinking about a price tag for gen 10? 70 or 80? 80. I bet 82.

[Greg Miller]

I'm going to say 70.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They'll make it. They'll justify it, though. They'll show you how many cool things are there.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, there's no way you can justify.

[Andy Cortez]

It'll be 80 and it'll be more.

[Tim Gettys]

And when we see the game, it'll be more perplexing than the Mario Kart World.

[Greg Miller]

$80, of course. Yeah, that's my thing. That's why I say 70 is. I think, like, I think they'll look at each other and go, guys, we can't do this. I think that's. That's gonna be like when the Grinch's heart grew three sizes or whatever. No, they're gonna look at the game and they're gonna be like, guys, we can barely charge $70 for this. We can't charge 80. Right. But I think they look at each other. They.

[Tim Gettys]

They look at each other and they're

[Greg Miller]

like, guys, I think we can do this.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

We've shown time and time again, they'll buy anything. Yeah, they don't care. They will buy.

[Andy Cortez]

The day of release, the. The Game Freak account also post footage of Beast of Reincarnation just to remind people, here's what we. Here's where we are capable of the crazy.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Allen says, how much did Beast of Reincarnation take away from the development of Gen 10? And I don't think it worked.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I don't think that's how it works. I feel like people ask this every single time when a company is working on multiple things. But, yeah, usually I don't think it affects them at all.

[Andy Cortez]

I think it's a, you know, a decent question to ask. I just don't know. We would have to know what. How many teams are within Game Creek working on what.

[Tim Gettys]

And from my understanding, it's like Beast of Reincarnation is A smaller team getting a lot of outsourced help to develop piece of reincarnation. If anybody from chat can figure out where I pulled that from, I want

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

to give you one final comment.

[Greg Miller]

How much is Procopia? Have they said the price tag?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

They have to have said how much it is, haven't they?

[Greg Miller]

I'm looking for it.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

If the copia is not 80, I don't think it can't be. It can't be 80. Everybody's convinced in chat that it's 80. I don't think it's 80.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, I don't think you're wrong for not wanting. For you not wanting it to be 80.

[Greg Miller]

I guess my other thinking is that

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

70, 70, everything's the only other game.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, it's 70. Damn. If they can sell Pecopia for 70,

[Tim Gettys]

they can 100% sell Gen 10 for 80.

[Greg Miller]

Copia is probably gonna be a better game than Gen 10 though. That's the crazy. Like I. The reason why I'm still stuck on 70 is Mario Kart World is the only game so far from Nintendo that they've actually charged $80 for. Unless I'm forgetting something. But like DK Metroid, like all the other first party stuff, still being 70 makes me hold on to hope.

[Andy Cortez]

They look at all of their Switch tiles and go, what has sold the Most? Mario Kart 8 and 8 Deluxe sold boatloads. Make the next one 80. What else sells a lot. Pokemon sells a lot.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

All right, final super chat before we get out of here. Comes from cberry328. Who says? My bet, the first part you're like, okay, sure. A new live action movie. Okay. Detective Pikachu or something.

[Greg Miller]

I like that.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Or a Roguelite. What about a Roguelite Pokemon game?

[Greg Miller]

Well, I mean Pokemon Mystery Dungeon is the most roguelite, right?

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Sure.

[Greg Miller]

So I mean it feels like. It feels more akin to Poke Rogue, which was the Flash. I don't know if it was Flash, but it was the browser based game that Mike got obsessed with a couple years ago. And I also liked it a lot. But you just get into Pokemon battles and do the thing. I think that'd be neat, but I just don't. It doesn't strike me as something the Pokemon company would do. That feels a bit more niche.

[Blessing Adeoye Jr.]

Well, we will find out everybody this Friday for Pokemon presents. Of course we will be live reacting to this 30th anniversary YouTube.com CondofunnyGames Twitch TV kinda funnygames. Of course at 6am after that we'll do the gamescast where we break it all down for you. After that, I will stream leafgreen for the first time and then you'll get Kinda Funny games daily and then you're gonna start a Resident Evil marathon stream. So quite the week for Kinda Funny here. We couldn't do that. Your support. If you like what we do, pick up a kinda funny membership patreon.com kinda funny YouTube.com kinda funnygames Apple, Spotify. You give us $10, we give you all of our programming that's more than 80 episodes a month ad free. Of course, you get your daily dose of me, Greg Miller and a 15 to 20 minute podcast called Greg Way. And you get good karma for supporting an 11 person 11 year old small business. But right now it's time to roll in to the one, the only kind of feudi. But until next time, it's been our pleasure to serve you.