Pokemon Black and White coming to America spring 2011

by JC Fletcher on May 28th 2010 12:40PM

Why wait for E3 to announce your biggest game of next year, right? First, Sony goes and reveals Killzone 3, and now Nintendo has revealed North American release plans for Pokémon Black and White for DS. The next generation of Pokémon will be released in spring 2011.

There are few known details about this new Pokémon game, other than the existence of a new city environment, the designs for the new starter Pokémon, and the fact that the Black and White versions are supposed to represent a "rebirth" for the franchise. Today, along with the North American release window announcement, Nintendo revealed that the box art for Pokémon Black will feature the legendary Pokémon Reshiram and White will feature Zekrom; as seen above (via Pokemon.com). So, you can start planning your purchase based on your preference between two freaky winged things.

Pokemon Black and White (DS)

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Zekrom will be Dark/Steel type, Reshiram Ice/Flying?

If pics indicate anything. Would love to hear some news on what part of this game dictates "rebirth" though. Aside from the weird view change, that is.

Man, I hope they're just not Dragon/Flying or something that's got a double weakness to Ice. Seems like half the damn Legendaries in the games are weak against Ice . . .

I agree, not much of a rebirth.
What I would like is an open world RPG developed Western style, without random encounters and 3rd person perspective or something. With a mmo-ish online component. That would be awesome.

Yet it will still sell well despite that, because everyone loves sequels.

Does NO ONE notice that feathered penis in between Reshiram's legs?!?!

my goodness, maybe they really ARE catering to a more mature audience

honestly, i can't decide yet... i base which game i get mostly on the pokemon available/other stuff that'll vary between the games... if i just chose based on the cover art i might end up pissed when i find out... you know... the actual CONTENT? (i guess i'm the only one like this or something)

also, since this is a pokemon thread i figured i might get the most attention here (yes, i'm too lazy to paste it to my username)

*5027 6632 8380*

hit me up for a battle, peeps. need some competition, savvy?

It ain't easy being white
It ain't easy being black
All this pressure and all the ice
I can't even have children all over town

Oh franklin. We miss you.

R.I.P Bluth Family :'[

Dark/Steel = fail VS Aura Sphere, Close Combat
Ice/Flying = fail VS Rock Slide, Stone Edge

EFFFFFFFFFFFFF 4X weaknesses to common attacks. I hope that's not what they turn out to be.

no takers? aw, there goes my fail for the day (could've been worse i guess)

Zekrom is dragon/eletric, Reshiram dragon/Fire i'm not lying and if you want proof go to serebii.net/blackwhite/

@Punkrawk Bbob

I believe that this is a long awaited change from well everyone whos ever played a game of pokemon and thought that it could be way better.

@Punkrawk Bbob
Actually...
Reshiram=Fire/Dragon
Zekrom=Electric/Dragon

@Punkrawk Bbob
Rashiram is dragon/fire and Zekrom is dragon/electric. just to let you know

@Punkrawk Bbob

Stormchaos, Cheater,

Ya, I get that NOW. When this article was released (5/28/10), that information wasn't released yet though. That was my guess based off the photos.

Why are you commenting on a 2 month old article?

@Punkrawk Bbob no you can search it up on seribii its were i go to get my info zekrom is dragon/eletric and reshiram is dragon/fire

@Punkrawk Bbob if you go to seribii wich is an official pokemon website zekrom is dragon/eletric and reshiram is dragon/fire

have you guys seen the new starters yet i think they look pretty cool i dont have a fav but if i had to pick actually i cant choose from theme

@skyblaze zekrom is on pokemon white and reshiram is on black im getting white and i know this becouse zekrom is the black yin pokemon and reshiram is the white yang

@dusty raby

... this article was posted BEFORE they put that information on Serebii. Serebii has it now, I know this. At the time this article was printed (5/28/10), this was the only information about them. Their picture. No other information was released at this time. NOW, much after, information has been released and sites like Serebii have reprinted it.

Also, Serebii is a very very unofficial pokemon site. It's not own, maintained, affiliated, or has anything to do with Nintendo or GameFreak. It's just a *VERY* well organized and run fan site.

Thanks Joystiq. Will definitely be picking these up.

They got Digimon in my Pokemon!

Thats exactly what crossed my mind when i saw the image.

I third that.

All the new Pokemon echo that sentiment.

I was just about to post the same thing too...

You say that like it's a bad thing

Less digimon than dialga/palkia if you as kme.

Not Sure If Want....who am I kidding? I'll have one of these on preorder even if the new 100 pokemon are all Bidoff evoultions.

SHHH! Don't say that, Nintendo might hear you and think it's a good idea!

You fool! You've doomed us all!

NOOOO!! MECHABIDOOF RISES!

Bidoof's Unaware ability completely negates the enemy's Swords Dance, Calm Mind, Iron Defense, and so on.... I'd love to see a better Pokemon make use of that.

Those are actually kind of cool... Still probably won't buy it

best-looking legendaries ever

The black one looks awesome!

best looking legendaries ever

DOUBLE POST :P

Oh, gosh.

We all know they're going to use the same formula. I'm too old for pokemon anyway, but will gladly revisit the franchise if they'd just take it in a new direction (e.g. real-time combat that doesn't require that I jack up my pokemanz with HMs).

pokemon needs a lot of changes for sure

real-time battling though? no

@Uncontrol: Why not?
And if that interview in GameInformer with one of the series director of the Pokemon franchise is to be believed they're trying to make the games more action oriented in terms of the battle sequences.

Change isn't always a bad thing.

@Uncontrol

They've played turn-based combat to death already. I think real-time combat along the same vein as, maybe, Smash Brothers (e.g. 2D fighter-esque) or a D20 system (e.g. NWN, KoTOR, DA:O) would be a welcomed change of pace. They can keep all of their paper-rock-scissors, their 4-attack moves, etc. and simply add the need for some skill.

Because Pokemon is a turn-based game. It doesn't make any sense to make it realtime. Maybe a time gauge or something at most. There's lots of changes the series' needs; the obliteration of HMs, being able to re-IV your Pokemon, make breeding less tedious, more world to explore (for a game based on wild animals there is almost no wilderness to adventure in), changing up the gym format (tournaments with powerful trainers that use all different types of Pokemon like in battle tower makes more sense than gyms you can one-Pokemon your way through) ...

I wrote a huge document about this once, but I doubt anyone here is interested in that.

no one is too old of pokemons. Take it back.

Uncontrol, go ahead and link me to that. I''ll read it as it seems I think exactly the same way you do regarding Pokemon. I'm effing tired of HMs...

They need to make changes sure, but keep the core the same. And that core is the turn-based battles and all the stats, movesets and stratedgy that affect the outcome of battle.

I think this 'rebirth' is making the game for an older audience. Original Pokemon fans have grown up, many of the people you see on Smogon and GTS are in their late teens/early 20s. These scary looking legends reflect that.

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Pokemon Black and White coming to America spring 2011

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