Fans Are Not Happy About Pokemon Presents Event

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Despite not lacking in announcements, the latest Pokemon Presents event still left a vocal portion of the fandom unhappy with the near-term plans for the beloved franchise. The February 27 stream held in celebration of Pokemon Day 2023 saw the reveals of the first Pokemon Scarlet and Violet DLC and a new stop-motion Netflix show called Pokemon Concierge, among other things.

Nintendo has been hyping up the latest Pokemon Presents event for almost a week in the run-up to today's stream. But the expectations surrounding the broadcast were already fairly high even without the consistent influx of teasers that the company has been posting on social media over the past several days. Not least because last year's celebrations of Pokemon Day 2022 packed quite a punch, including the surprise reveal of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet.

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Even though new game announcements were unlikely to feature at the 2023 iteration of Pokemon Presents, many fans were still hoping the broadcast will at least yield an official confirmation that the much-requested re-releases of classic Pokemon titles from the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance are coming to Switch Online, especially seeing how Nintendo finally started bringing its GBA catalog to Switch Online in early February. Since that didn't come to pass, a vocal portion of the fandom has consequently taken online to voice their frustrations with this turn of events following the conclusion of the newest Pokemon Presents event.

While some used social media to share their disappointment with those perceived omissions, other like-minded individuals chose to focus on what the event did feature by labeling Pokemon Sleep as «an alarm