The Pokémon Company gave some new details on Pokémon Unite in an interview with the Japanese site Dime whose main points have been translated by Daniel Ahmad |.
Don’t call me MOBA
First, the game team readily admits the difficulty of adapting Pokémon to different genres. Unite was only able to see the light of day thanks to the expertise of Tencent in the field. And it never hurts to say how great the world’s most powerful publisher is.
The game team insists that Pokémon Unite is not exactly from a MOBA. The desired term is “strategic team battle game” and we must admit that it is a little difficult to grasp the subtlety.
As with any attempt of its kind, the goal here is to offer an unprecedented experience to fans while trying to bring in a new audience. The assumed objective is to seek the public of young Asian mobile players to make them addicted to Pikachu. This explains the choice of genre and mobile. It is for the Western public that the game will also be released on Switch since we are deemed more resistant to the touch screen.
More surprisingly, we learn that the exit window has still not been decided while in general applications exit fairly quickly after their announcement. But we know at least one thing about the exit. Pokémon Company, Nintendo, Tencent and TiMi do not currently intend to encourage the development of esports Pokémon Unite.
However, if the public wants the game to take this direction, they will be delighted to work there and even organize world championships on the model of those Pokkén Tournament. Fortunately, they haven’t planned anything yet…
Pokémon Unite will be released as free-to-start on iOS, Android and Switch.
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