There’s then a cut to a collage of images showing five different players, two holding Nintendo Switches and three with smartphones. Things start off on an ambitious tone, with Ishihara quickly ushering us into a video within the video that dramatically reminds us that “Pokémon made people trade together, battle together, connect together. Unfortunately, for a lot of them the “big project” is about as welcome as a lump of coal in their stocking. So for Pokémon fans, the last week was like waiting for Christmas. But at the end of the presentation Pokémon Company president Tsunekazu Ishihara promised that he’d be back in one week’s time to reveal “another big project.” Last week the Pokémon Company unveiled a slew of new Pokémon games, with a Pokémon Presents video announcement showing off a sequel to Pokémon Snap, the Pokémon Smile AR game that you play by brushing your teeth, and mobile puzzler Pokémon Cafe Mix.

Pokémon Unite is sure to be divisive with its free-to-play, in-app purchase model and Switch/smartphone cross-play.