The Pokémon Company announced today that a brand-new Pokémon
RPG is set to be released later this year for the
Nintendo DS. The original
press release, along with
Junichi Masuda's Blog entry on the announcement, have now both been translated by Bulbagarden webmaster Archaic. Given the mention of new
Pokémon being included, and the statements that these games will be an "inventive rebirth" of the series and that the staff are "doing their best to exceed every Pokémon game before now", it would now appear that this is indeed an announcement for a
fifth generation of main series games as was first speculated. This would be an interesting turn for the series to take, as two generations have never shared the primary console; while
Generation II could be played on a regular
Game Boy, it was designed with the
Game Boy Color in mind.
The February 2010 edition of
CoroCoro, due out in only a few weeks, is set to reveal a "surprising announcement", which will be related to this game, as well as the upcoming Pokémon movie,
Phantom Ruler Z.