Why Am I Still Waiting For New Pokemon Snap DLC

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Remember New Pokemon Snap? It was one of several Pokemon games that launched last year, and easily the best of them. In fact, as I have argued before (admittedly to stifled laughter), I think New Pokemon Snap is the best Pokemon game since HeartGold & SoulSilver, and its biggest competition is Let’s Go. New Pokemon Snap placed a respectable seventh on TheGamer’s Game of the Year list last year, and I was half-expecting to see it place in tenth or ninth on my own list this year after I snuck it through thanks to some DLC. I know we’re only three months into the year, but after the perfect window for a winter update was missed, I have to ask - is New Pokemon Snap ever going to get any new content?

In some ways, you’d think that would be a straightforward question with an easy answer. Pokemon games haven’t typically dabbled in DLC until recently, New Pokemon Snap has all the trappings of a standalone game, and we were never promised it would be live-service. The more likely outcome might be a whole new game - a prospect I wouldn’t complain about, but would slightly lament the long wait for another meaningless story and whole new infrastructure when a few new maps with different Pokemon is all it takes. It doesn’t seem built for expansion, but there is the notable fact that it got one. In early autumn last year, three new free maps were added, bringing with them a host of new Pokemon - including some oversights that felt as if they had been held back, like Gyarados.

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One single free update doesn’t make a game a live-service game, but it feels very odd that a game no one was really expecting to ever deliver more content (as much as we