The wait for New Pokémon Snap is almost over and fans will soon have a chance to take more pictures of wild Pokémon. A lot of fans have been asking why it has taken this long for a new Pokémon Snap game to be released, and the director of the game has an answer.
The original Pokémon Snap was released on the Nintendo 64 in 1999. The game was notoriously short and light on content, but it offered an interesting glimpse into what a 3D Pokémon world would look like. The objective of the game was to take photos of Pokémon in the wild. As time went on, society as a whole became obsessed with photography. This started when digital cameras became cheap, allowing consumers to skip the whole photo printing process. The interest in photography exploded with the rise of social media, as people around the world became obsessed with sharing their photos online. As time went on, cellphone cameras started to eclipse the digital cameras in quality, while also allowing consumers to instantly upload photos to the Internet.
As all of this was going on, the Pokémon Snap fans were asking why The Pokémon Company wasn't capitalizing on this newfound obsession with photography? It was especially puzzling in the Nintendo 3DS/Wii U era. The Nintendo 3DS could have had a Pokémon Snap AR game that used its cameras to depict them in the real world, while the Wii U's GamePad seemed tailor-made for a Pokémon Snap game. A new entry in the series will be released soon, as New Pokémon Snap is coming to the Nintendo Switch on April 30. The director of the game explained why it took so long to make a new Pokémon Snap game in a recent interview with Metro.
Pokémon Snap Was Influenced By Changing Technology
New Pokémon Snap director Haruki Suzaki was asked why it took so long to make a new Pokémon Snap game. According to Suzaki, there were attempts to make other Pokémon Snap games in the past, but they never came to fruition. The reason why it came back is that the technology of photography has changed so much since the original game was released, and the Nintendo Switch was the perfect system to reflect that, which is why New Pokémon Snap exists.
This is the first time that other Pokémon Snap games have been mentioned, but The Pokémon Company has canceled projects in the past, such as the Pokémon RPG on the Nintendo 64, and Pokémon Picross, which turned up in the Nintendo Gigaleak. It's possible that an entry was planned for the Wii U, but the low sales of that system led to the project being delayed. It took a long time, but New Pokémon Snap is almost here, and it will be interesting to see how a new audience takes to the game, especially one with such a different attitude toward taking pictures.
New Pokémon Snap will be available for Nintendo Switch on April 30.
Source: Metro