- This is so much fun!
- I just don't like games like that.
They don't grab my attention.
♪ (playful intro) ♪
- Pokémon Go?
- It's Pokémon Go.
- (Pikachu) Pika! - It's Pikachu.
- Yes!
- (gasping) Oh, it's this one! It's this one!
♪ (playful music) ♪
- Nintendo?
- I'm not a big fan of Nintendo.
- I don't really play video games, so I have no idea what this is.
- (Pikachu) Pika! - (giggling)
♪ (adventurous music) ♪ - (Pikachu) Pika!
- This is-- I love-- this is so much fun!
- (Eevee babbling) - Eevee.
- It's Pokémon Go, my favorite games
with my Switch. It's brilliant.
♪ (adventurous music) ♪
- What the heck?
- This kind of reminds me of the Wii.
- This kind of looks the same as all the other Pokémon games.
- ♪ Oh oh whoa ♪
♪ Let's do it together ♪
- Wait! No.
- That's cool.
- Whoa, what the--?
- In Pokémon Go, you can't really interact
with other people minus in raids and stuff.
Here, you can actually play with them.
- I would download this game.
- ♪ (vocalizing) ♪
- That's cool!
(game chiming) - It looks really fun.
- I have to have this game.
- (Pikachu) Pika, pika! - Whoa!
- (Pikachu) Pika, pika! - That's cool.
- You can literally take your Pokémon--
this is literally insane.
- It's just like Pokémon Go.
- This looks fun.
- Pretty lit.
- (Pikachu) Pika, pika!
- Look how cute their outfits are.
- And you can dress them up and they're so cute!
- At first, I thought it was bad but now it actually looks good.
- Mewtwo.
- And then we have the wonderful Mewtwo.
- "Your first adventure in a new style."
♪ (adventurous music) ♪
- There's Pikachu and, let me guess, Eevee.
Yep.
(phone chiming)
- "You'll meet a special Pokémon"? Who is he?
Oh my god!
It's like a cliff hanger.
- I am so excited for this to come out.
- I'm gonna get that. I want to get that.
- The Poké Balls, it sounded like there was actual Pokémon inside.
It's more realistic than just the cartoon.
- I loved it!
It's really cool. It's a new concept in a way,
while still having some of that Pokémon Go
and some of that new stuff.
- (FBE) So that was the trailer for the games
Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee.
Are you a fan of Pokémon? - No, not really.
- Not familiar with the games or the series.
- Not really, but I've played Pokémon Go before.
- Yeah, I'm more of a card kind of guy.
- Yes, I have Pokémon Sun and Moon.
- I haven't played a lot of the games, but I do enjoy the series.
- I am a huge fan.
It's really cool how they have these cool original characters,
we'll put it, and it's like, oh, you get to fight with them
and become closer to them?
Okay, you got me addicted to it so I'm gonna get all 151.
- (FBE) Well, these new games have been described
as a remake of Pokémon Yellow, where players will try
to catch all 151 original Pokémon and defeat all the gym leaders.
While you can still travel from town to town,
catching and leveling up Pokémon, just like in Pokémon Yellow,
in this game, you use the Joy-Con controllers
to move around, throw to catch Pokémon,
and can even bring in a second player to help you
on your quest. - Nice!
Just like the Wii controllers.
- That sounds like a cool game.
- Because it's connected to the Pokémon Go,
I think it was a good idea you can do the Joy-Con
and throw it because that way it's more like you have
more control over what happens.
- (FBE) You can also use the Pokémon Go app
and transfer in any Pokémon you catch there into the new game
and you can use the new Poké Ball plus to catch Pokémon
which you can then carry into the real world.
- That was pretty cool because I want my own Poké Ball
to just take with me.
- (FBE) But some people have complained
over the lack of things like you cannot fight with
wild Pokémon, there's no breeding or egg systems anymore,
and you cannot evolve your starter Pokémon.
- You can't?
I understand why they would do that because they want that
to be your starting Pokémon, like you always will have
that Pokémon, but still it's kinda like
what if they want to progress in the game?
- (FBE) So overall, what do you think about this as a concept for a game?
- I mean, not my thing.
I can see other people really liking it.
- For the people that like video games,
you might like this, but me, not so much.
- It's really cool because most games aren't like that.
You can kind of take it anywhere.
- Well, that's fun because usually on Pokémon Go
you can only play with one person.
- This seems like a really smart idea for them
because you're connecting two things and Pokémon Go
may not-- maybe-- I would say isn't the biggest
right now, but bringing it into this brand new game,
people might download the app just so they can catch new Pokémon
and bring them into their game.
- A lot of people would like it because you get to bring
it around, which is what the Switch is all about.
It's like you're bringing one of those new games
a lot of people did enjoy with a little bit of that old vibe.
- With Pokémon Go, there's no people who fight you.
It's just gyms and you have to go to certain places and do
physical exercise.
Playing a video game and doing physical exercise
doesn't really go together.
That's why people stopped playing it.
But now, like this, you don't need to walk around all over the place.
- (FBE) Well, the first Pokémon game was released all the way back in 1996.
- What? So long ago!
- (FBE) They have since sold over 75 games
and is the second best selling video game franchise of all time.
- Wow!
- That's crazy.
- I never knew that. That's pretty cool.
- (FBE) So for many adults, they kind of grew up
playing the Pokémon series because they were younger
when the original games came out, so for example,
someone who is your age when Pokémon Yellow came out
would now be about in their early thirties today.
- Whoa.
- It's crazy that they've still been going really strong
for all these years.
People still really like them even if they're in their thirties.
- (FBE) So for a lot of adults, they consider Pokémon
almost more of a retro game, where they remember
the old games and don't necessarily think
of it as a franchise that's still continuing.
So for your generation, how big of a deal would you say
that Pokémon still is? - It's not a big deal.
Because after you play Pokémon for a long time,
it starts to get boring.
- Pretty big deal.
Now there's a competition going around,
where it's only Pokémon.
- Kids my age are still into it.
It's cool, awesome, the characters are cute.
It's really fun.
- A lot of people, they do like Pokémon card trades,
except they're banned, so they still do it.
- People at my school are usually talking about Fortnite
instead, which I think is just bad because the goal is bad.
It's to kill everybody and I don't really think
that's appropriate for kids.
- I would say it's a pretty big deal.
It's big enough where if a new trailer drops,
it's on the top of the trending list.
A lot of newer kids whose parents or brothers and sisters played it,
they know that they like it, so they might want to try it out.
- (FBE) So finally, do you think you'll want
to get Let's Go Pikachu or Let's go Eevee
when it finally comes out? - Yes.
- Yeah, it just looks so good.
- No, not really.
I'm not a big video game fan.
- Of course, I want to get it. Duh!
- Hmmm, definitely not.
I just don't like games like that.
They don't grab my attention.
- I'm getting Eevee.
- Let's Go Pikachu because Pikachu's a pretty strong Pokémon.
- No, because usually when I buy games,
I do not end up playing them at all.
- Yes, it looks very fun and I like Pokémon.
Pika! Pikachu!
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