The Pokémon Company and Nintendo are so far successful in keeping under wraps the juicy details on the upcoming Pokémon GO, foremost of which the game titles' release date. Luckily though, a few hints were able to come out and fans can thank the last Super Bowl and Niantic Labs for the nuggets of clues.
Pokémon's Super Bowl ad celebrated 20 years of the loveable pocket monsters and introduced at the same time the augmented reality or AR-based Pokémon GO. It proved as among the well-received football night commercials but for those with keen eyes, treasures of revelations were afforded as well.
Pokeball
The Super Bowl ad has uncloaked a key Pokémon GO component that according to Gotta Be Mobile is crucial to the GO gameplay. As the game is defined by the virtual acts of capturing, collecting, trading and battling with the use of "real-world" Mons there has to be a chamber that will house these creatures.
As suggested by the ad, it appears that the container will be known as Pokeball but it remains if the same device will join for real the Pokémon GO Plus as essentials for optimal game experience.
Everyone can play
The GO creators designed a game that everyone can tinker and toy around with. "Every person in the Super Bowl ad declares that they can do what they see other's doing," the GBM report observed. It seems that the most important element of the game is that kids of all ages (read: children and adults) can play and have a blast in the process.
The fun factor
Pokémon GO co-developer Niantic Labs revealed in an interview that by lacing the game with location-based features, it will "generate further fun factor ... they could go even higher." Niantic Japan told Nintendo Life that with the concept of location introduced in the game, GO could turn out far more exciting that the conventional role-playing or RPG titles.
"By inserting the location feature in Pokémon, we wonder what kind of chemical reaction will occur. That's one of the points we're excited about with Pokémon GO," Niantic Japan's Setsuto Murai was quoted by the report as saying.
Nothing solid yet is known on the release date plans of Nintendo and TPC for Pokémon GO but concrete details are likely to drop during the March staging of the GDC 2016 or after the commercial rollout of the 3DS Pokémon 20th Anniversary Edition bundle that is pre-installed with the Pokémon Red and Blue.