chibisilverwings:

It’s a longish article, but here’s the best parts I got out of it:

– There will be GYMS that are location based.

– Pokemon will be location specific (and try to fit actual environments ie water pokemon near water etc) but they will try to make sure that even in rural areas, you’ll find Pokemon within about 5 minutes of walking and try to make all areas of the world worth playing the game in.

– There will be Teams, probably teams from the games and more.

– Narrative is still up in the air. Not sure if it will have user directed narrative.

– There will be live events IRL in large cites like Ingress.

– The Pokemon GO watch thing will have an interface on it so that you can use it to catch Pokemon etc don’t have to pull out your phone all the time.

The choice bit for me is reading about how passionate Matsuda (as usual) seems to be about the new possibilities and how these two dudes at the helm on making Pokemon GO care a lot about human connection just like the team over and The Pokemon Company. It seems like their ideals really align. It’s awesome to see that they want to promote people going out and seeing the world (art, local stores and cultural monuments) and interacting with people from all over the world.

This new info only makes me more sure I’m going to love this.