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Nintendo/Game Freak Register Trademark for "Ultra Shiny"
- Thread starter Zippo
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Could actually see this if they use Amiibo Cards and sell them in packs.
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Maybe not to you, but I think the seeing the final 3DS revision was a huge announcement. Every single one of those announcements is shaping the future of the company in some way.
If it's just some super rare color variation of wild Pokémon then I'm all for it, hell I'd feel super lucky to find one. What I really don't like is the mega evolutions because if I recall correctly (X/Y) it an additional turn to evolve in every battle.
I'm not really sure what another shiny variant offers in the game. The original 1/8192 odds is already very hard to come across (average joe isn't gonna know about MM, soft resetting, or even chaining. And we've had people here who never got shinies in their years of playing), so an even rarer variant would just make it that much harder to approach. Not to mention, it's pretty much redundant.
I dont think it's gonna be anything game related, but a TGC related thing. a new series of cards like BREAK Evolutions
GamerGen (French) wrote article about this, mentioning that if Game Freak is involved but not The Pokémon Company, it should be related to the main games and not the TCG. Are they right about this?
This is a bit confusing to me, although I'm almost sure it will have something to do with Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon because of that name, it's really intriguing.
This is a bit confusing to me, although I'm almost sure it will have something to do with Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon because of that name, it's really intriguing.
No. They are absolutely wrong.
In Japan, Nintendo, Game Freak and Creatures Inc. are the three co-registrars of every Pokémon related trademark.
Here are a few examples over the past few years
Cosmog
Phatom Gate (A 2014 Japanese TCG set)
PokéDaring (An augmented reality attraction in a theme park in Japan)
Pokémon Sun & Moon (Video Games and TV series)
Splash! Magikarp (A mobile game name)
Tokyo DX (The name of one of the new Pokémon Center stores)
Ultra Necrozma (A Pokémon form)
Outbreak (An event in Yokohama each year: Pikachu Outbreakchu)
Z Power Ring (An item used in the game and for merchandise)
PokéNano (A merchandise line akin to Lego)
Pokétabi (A merchandise line)
Pokémon Boxercise (An attraction at the Pokémon EXPO Gym event)
Event Organizer (A title of people who organise TCG events in Japan)
Ash's hat
I can go on for days listing all the obscure and varied trademarks. All of these were trademarked by all three companies. That's what happens in Japan. The Pokémon Company doesn't register trademarks.
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It's better than restarting the game 80,000 times to get a shiny starter.
Thanks for making that clear! I didn't have much expectation and I even have less now, but at least I shouldn't be disappointed.
I'm not quite sure what you mean. Shiny Pokémon are supposed to be free very rares variants, either a sweet surprise if you're lucky or a something you might want to hunt for hours if you feel like it.
I really don't think an amiibo unlocking mechanic would work as it's totally against the essence of their rarity, though you could consider it like official shiny distributions but those don't have much to do with shiny hunting in the first place.
Also I wish Game Freak realized that Shiny Lock on in-game Pokémon since Gen 5 is a stupid idea that doesn't have any sense and doesn't benefit anyone, but I tend to be more realistic so I prefer to expect an even worse situation on Switch's Gen 8.
I like that idea, and would love if they made it that way!
Along with a removal of that nonsense Shiny lock and that'd be just perfect to me.