«When is another generation of Pokémon coming to Pokemon GO?! » It’s a question that the game’s players (including myself) have been shouting since… well,..
“When is another generation of Pokémon coming to Pokemon GO ?!”
It’s a question that the game’s players (including myself) have been shouting since… well, pretty much immediately after the game launched.
We’ve finally got an official answer: “later this week”.
The once oh-so-shaky servers have stabilized. The game is now available in most of the world. And now, about seven months after the game’s initial launch… it’s finally time for a bunch of new Pokémon.
Niantic tells me that players will be able to find “over 80” new Johto Pokémon (those from 1999’s Pokémon Gold and Silver games, otherwise known as “Generation II”) within the next few days.
I asked for a date more precise than “later this week”, but the company declined to get more specific. When asked whether the new Pokémon would be added all at once or rolled out gradually, though, a rep replied that they would all “be discoverable as soon as the update goes live.”
Better news: the 80 they mentioned will all be discoverable “in the wild”, as they should be — not just from eggs, unlike the handful added in December .
A few other things the company confirmed:
They also released this trailer:
Though there’s not much in terms of new encounter gameplay mechanics on display there, worth noting is the new berry shortcut button at 0:16, that the backpack is seemingly now a dedicated Pokéball drawer, and that the camera button got moved up to the top of the screen (until 0:29, at which point it’s suddenly back at the bottom right.
