Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon Announced!

What a day for Pokemon! Today, Nintendo had a special Nintendo Direct with big news about the Pokemon world. Let's take a look.




It's now official: Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon will be the next Generation of Pokemon games! The release date is set to be sometime in the Holidays of this year, 2016. The exact details of the game are still hidden, but there are some shots of vehicles in there, which seems to be promising of new forms of transportation and interactions with Pokemon in the coming generation.

In other news from the Pokemon Direct, Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow will be available for digital download starting tomorrow. That's nothing new, we already knew that Pokemon Red Blue and Yellow were coming to the 3DS. What we didn't know is that the digital versions of Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow will actually be able to work with Pokemon Bank. That means that any Pokemon you catch in your new generation 1 games can be transferred to the newer games and continue with you on your grand adventures in Omega Ruby, Alpha Sapphire, X, Y, and now Sun and Moon!

This news actually took me completely by surprise. I never expected that Pokemon from Red, Blue and Yellow would be available to the newer generations. Pokemon in Red, Blue and Yellow had 5 stats instead of six as Special Defense and Special Attack were combined into one stat known simply as Special. The Individual Values for Pokemon in the first generation only went up to 15 instead of 31 as well. So I'm going to be curious to see how the pokemon make the jump.

Now all we're waiting for is a release date for Pokemon GO. Let's do it!