GDC 2007: Pokémon Battle Revolution announced

Wii News | A game of "firsts" apparently.

Nintendo has confirmed at the GDC that Pokémon Battle Revolution will be coming to America, Europe and Australia. Nintendo are touting the title as a game of "firsts", stating that the title will be the first Wii game to include Nintendo Wi-Fi play, the first Pokémon game for the Wii, the first to link the Wii and the Nintendo DS, and finally the first Wii game that can be controlled using the Nintendo DS.

When the DS and the Wii are linked, you'll be able to use the Nintendo DS as a controller. You'll also be able to import characters from Pokémon Diamond or Pokémon Pearl. The game will be coming out in June for America, though a PAL date hasn't yet been revealed.

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11 Comments

admeister

5 years ago

Took them long enough! This is good news, once the game is out here, the Wii is going to get a massive boost. I don't know why there's no PAL release date though, they should be able to release it here when they do in the U.S. It only has to be in English.. I can hardly beleive it's taken them 5 months just to announce that it's coming to the rest of the world.

renegadesx

5 years ago

admeister wrote

Took them long enough! This is good news, once the game is out here, the Wii is going to get a massive boost. I don't know why there's no PAL release date though, they should be able to release it here when they do in the U.S. It only has to be in English.. I can harldy beleive it's taken them 5 months just to announce that it's coming to the rest of the world.

Too true, boosting morale to the public is to announce dates! Telling us WHEN we can get it is one thing after all these years Nintendo still doesn't get

Itachi

5 years ago

Doesn't this sound like the gamecube really, what i mean by that is they also released a pokemon battle game. This game does look really amazing i just would think a rpg would be so much better. The reason it would be better is it can do everything that this battle game will do and so much more imo. Ohh we can wait and dream

Timmaaah

5 years ago

I think that nintendo would be nuts not to make an RPG of pokemon in the future (hopefully already in the works). but i guess we have to just live with what we got

edit: i forgot a word

renegadesx

5 years ago

Timmaaah wrote

I think that nintendo would be nuts not to make an RPG of pokemon in the future (hopefully already in the works). but i guess we have to just with what we got

Currently the focuses on the Pokemon franchise is to translate and distribute world wide Diamond, Pearl and Battle Revolution. Quite frankly the Pokemon franchise has been almost milked out with these stupid recent DS games. Pokemon should go back to its roots, which Diamond and Pearl do. Then Battle Revolution will take care of all the cool multiplayer online stuff. Its the right move to make, depending if there is any decent multilayer or online stuff in Diamond and Pearl, decides if it is worth it to buy Battle Revolution at all

admeister

5 years ago

They've already had a shot at creating a pokemon RPG for consoles, Pokemon Collisseum and XD. I actually though Collisseum was pretty good, so Battle Revolution seems like a great extension of it.

Charly

5 years ago

But will it have Sushi Go-Round? I think not.

I am really looking forward to this game and have totally been suckered in by all the hype. I know its just more of the same really, but I like that 'same'.

DancesInUnderwear

5 years ago

The Sandshrew digging thing > Sushi Go Round.

Cerebral

5 years ago

admeister wrote

They've already had a shot at creating a pokemon RPG for consoles, Pokemon Collisseum and XD. I actually though Collisseum was pretty good, so Battle Revolution seems like a great extension of it.

They're pretty weak shots at a real RPG.

Pokemon + consoles = a plethora of wasted potential.

admeister

5 years ago

That's true, they need to try harder. Everybody wants to see a pokemon MMO game, but we won't be getting it any time soon. Battle Revolution is fairly close though (online pokemon!). It's going to be hot.