Namco Bandai's Making a Pokemon Fighting Game

@toxin066: Other comments here would indicate staunch disagreement.

I've never really thought about stuff like this before but why release a trailer with English text for something that's only (for the moment at least) coming to Japanese arcades?

About as necessary as Hyrule Warriors. Thanks, but no thanks.

Yup!

Law vs. Machamp.

Make it happen

The 10 year old me that was super disappointed in Pokemon Stadium is cheering right now.

we get Pokemon X Tekken, but are we ever gonna see Tekken x Pokemon? probably not.

This is 15 years of dreams coming true right now. Oh man if this comes to the states I will LOSE IT.

I'm only interested if Klefki and Trubbish are involved.

Pikachu loves Heihachi... and Heihachi loves Pikachu.

Still waitin on that footage of Tekken x Street Fighter. One day........... one day.

I'm gonna kick everyone's ass as snorlax if this ever makes it to consoles

@doctorwhofreak:

That woulda a bit longer ago than one year; Pokemon Conquest came out in June 2012 and was announced in April 2012.

It's hard for me to get excited about something coming out in Japan. The trailer wasn't even in Japanese so this might come out here eventually in some form?

I suppose there's some cool potential, there's some cool pokemon in the fighting type, it's too early to get excited for this though, I'm not terribly impressed with what I've seen.

hmm..

Interesting, but ultimately not something I'd play.

Meh.

Nintendo does not exactly have the most packed lineup of games on their WiiU roadmap at the moment so I fully expect this to be announced for WiiU and international release once they've tuned the arcade version.

I'm surprised it took them this long to formally announce it. There was a snippet of this footage like a year ago at the same event they announced Pokemon Conquest.

can I play as Heihachi?

That is pretty cool. I probably will never play this but it should exist.

Can't wait to play as luchador pikachu and suplex everyone!

Seems like a logical choice in a game to make. The question is considering how many Pokémon there are, will they sacrifice game play and balance for having a huge number of Pokémon or will they just hand pick a couple and sort ignore one of the things that makes Pokémon awesome. (The vast variety of monsters to choose from.)

I hear there are some people who really like Pokemon. Also, whenever I see a fighting game trailer of any kind a voice in my head says FINISH HIM! at the end.

@wolfhazard: The words 'Pokemon' and 'new and interesting' in the same sentence made me laugh.

wtf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I mean... I love pokemon, I don't think I'll be in a Japanese arcade anytime soon but this is something new and interesting. I think