Pokemon Sword and Shield Expansion Pass Gets Official Artwork & More

The Pokemon Company has released new artwork for the upcoming expansion pass for Pokemon Sword & Shield.

[Domestupidname]

And now all the incessant bitching and moaning over the limited Pokedex is completely irrelevant. Congrats.

[rolando123]

There is always going to be bitching about that. Game Freak is only adding like 200 more

[xHeavYx]

It's a paid expansion to add Pokemon that already exist. Just as many predicted before. Nintendo fans just cover their ears. And it's not even a $15 or maybe $20, you have to pay $30 for each.

[-Foxtrot]

Keep white knighting them

This is why we’ll never get the big Pokemon game we’ve all dreamt of...

[Tross]

Yeah...what are the odds we will be seeing more of these expansions? GF clearly knows what they're doing here.

[Bruh]

@xHeavy

You don't need to buy the expansions to get the 200 new Pokemon. You can get them traded to you or imported via Pokemon Home, just not catchable in the game without the pass

[xHeavYx]

@Bruh
Yeah, I'm gonna trade 200 Pokemon, that's not gonna take any time, especially since I don't know anyone else who's getting the expansion and I don't play Pokemon go, and you'll probably have to pay for home.

[ZeroX9876]

people spoke what they wanted and they listened.

good call if you ask me. great communication with fans of your game is key and nintendo showed it this time. respect.

[rolando123]

Yeah it was a great move! And you don't need to even buy the expansion to get access to the new Pokemon. You can just trade with others

[Sono421]

The apologists are so sad. How is this listening? This was so clearly planned.

It is a PROVEN FACT they are using the EXACT SAME MODELS AND ANIMATIONS for ALL old Pokemon.
So how is them INTENTIONALLY holding back Pokemon to be sold as DLC later a good thing? Not to mention they said they held Pokemon back to create higher quality animations (Didn't happen) AND for balancing.... well now they're coming back, and we can confirm BOTH of those reasons to be lies.... but now that we see this... we know the real reason, to sell them as DLC.

I will say there is a good amount of content in this DLC though... like seriously, it looks like it's going to be over half of what the original game had in it, but that begs the question, if they can make about half of what the original game had to offer in less than a year... WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN DOING?!

Either they CAN make a lot of content in a very short amount of time.... OR they intentionally held back content to sell it as DLC, and based on the 100% proven fact that they withheld old Pokemon to be sold as DLC, I would say that is what's happening here as well. FINALLY I can get everything they put in the new games for the low low price of $180! Wow thank you so much Nintendo/Gamefreak.

Honestly this fanbase just loves to be milked and screwed over.

[Steveoreno1]

They didn't listen to fans. This was the plan from the get go. Why? $

[SpeedDemon]

How so? The original complaint was that the game didn't support all the Pokemon and people couldn't transfer their unsupported Pokemon from their previous games, this will add 200 more Pokemon to the supported list and I assume allow these Pokemon to be transferred with or without the dlc.

[rolando123]

I'm sure doing an expansion wasn't a plan at first

[monkey602]

Do you really think this is the end of that fiasco? Now theres a whole other can of worms opened because its paid DLC haha

[rolando123]

pokemon fanbase is so terrible

[Domestupidname]

No, there's going to be plenty more incessant bitching and moaning as well as entitled jerks expecting developers to deliver 800+ Pokemon in a game for the same price that a normal game costs to develop. The expansions are $30 for both together, it adds 200 Pokemon to the Pokedex, and you get new areas and new content probably on the level of a new game.

But nobody's happy because "it costs money" while in the same breath they'll preach that devs don't get paid enough. There's no way to win because the entire "fandom" on this site is solely looking to bitch and moan. There's no way to make them happy, and they should just be ignored.

[-Foxtrot]

Urm how is this good

It’s basically paid DLC for the packing content in the main game

You can trade new Pokemon sure but if you can’t do that for whatever reason then you’ll need to get the expansions for them to start popping up

It’s like a Ubisoft move

[Tross]

Well...people told a large corporation they want more content in their game. Said large corporation realizes the potential for profit and fulfills the request...with the added caveat that it will be through paid DLC. On the plus side, we may eventually have the full National Dex in the games. On the other hand though, there will probably be a slew of DLC packs, all of which are paid, and which as a whole may end up costing more than the base game when all is said and done.

[Bruh]

Or you can idk like every other generation, import them from a previous game, which Pokemon Home is going to allow you to do even with games dating back to X and Y

[SpeedDemon]

It comes out in June, thats 7 months after the games released... how is that packing content from the main game?

[BrainSyphoned]

“New” well new to the game at least just like a used vehicle is new to me.

[Xaevi]

"it's a game made for kids" is usually the excuse given. I guess kids are gonna pay 30 bucks for DLC. I think it's a pass from me. Also what a bunch of hypocrites. They said no Pokemon will be added in afterwards and now they're charging 30 for added Pokemon, ridiculous. That ontop of Pokemon Home still possibly being a PAID service. This series is officially dead for me

[Tross]

Well, maybe we will bump into each other while playing Temtem.

[AirJohnston]

I swear Pokémon fans are just as bad as Star Wars fans

[Bruh]

So much misinformation....jeez N4G

1. You DO NOT need to buy the DLC to use the 200 new Pokemon being added, these can be traded to you or you can import them from saves that support Pokemon Home

2. The DLC is primarily for being able to catch the new Pokemon in the wild and also for new areas and stories

3. New legendaries, yes are linked to the DLC, however, this isn't anything new in Pokemon

[AnotherGamer]

You still need to pay for Home subscription though.

[Y_5150]

They did not discuss the pricing as of yet. Just a February release date.

[Elronza]

Proves why these games were released half assed and lacking most of the pokedex. Gamefreak gon nickel and dime you. They turned a $40 game into a $90 game, and the blind fans will pay it smfh! Wow you blind fans just love that straight dick and no bootylube Gamefreak keeps giving you!

[badz149]

and watch the fanatics trying to defend them somehow. PATHETIC!

on the other hands, yeah, you go GameFreak!! milk these sheep dry! they deserve it!

[GameBoyColor]

very similar to how fighting fans are contempt with fighter passes now

[leoms]

Lol they pulled an Activision here but Nintendo fans will be ok with it knowing them.

[gold_drake]

im really pissed the dlc is 30 quid. thats like half the price of the main game wth lol

[Positivelypositive]

I dislike that this is added as DLC. Why do I need to fill my pokedex!!! Why!? I must really dislike myself lol. Someone stop me!