Nintendo 3DS owners don’t have long to wait for the next installment in the Pokemon franchise. A brand new entry in the series, Pokemon X/Pokemon Y, will be launching exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS worldwide this October. Nintendo made the announcement overnight Tuesday in one of their Nintendo Direct videos.
The announcement brought with it new Pokemon (obviously), as it showed off Grass type Chespin (who looks like a chipmunk with a weird hat), Fire type Fennekin (a fox-like creature), and Water type Froakie (a somehow fluffy frog).
Gameplay shows a little more animation for battles, which is welcome, but it doesn’t look like the core experience has changed all that much. Still, more Pokemon is rarely a bad thing.
The Pokemon series has been published in seven languages and seen 42 prior releases (counting games released side-by-side like Red and Blue, Diamond and Pearl, etc as one entry) across the Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 64, GameCube, and Wii… so anyone who said it was “just a fad” when the series first launched in 1996 should have eaten a lot of crow by now.
What do you think? Excited about more Pokemon, or has the series reached over saturation status yet?
