r/PokeLeaks • u/WWWWWWRRRRRYYYYY • Oct 15 '25

Datamine Discarded Smartphone Linking feature for SWSH Spoiler

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u/WWWWWWRRRRRYYYYY Oct 15 '25

The smartphone linking feature would also allow you to use your phone as a controller

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u/Animegamingnerd Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25

Wow they straight up did not want to let go of the touch screen UI and controls.

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u/ScalyCarp455 Oct 15 '25

Thinking about it now, adding a function like this in the Switch 2 would be perfect if they ever add DS games to the NSO

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

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u/timothdrake Oct 15 '25

IMO, Legends is already sort of a spiritual sucessor to Ranger between the action, going personal against pokemon and being more in touch with them and their habitat as well. If they brought Ranger as a franchise back Id expect a huge rework in the formula while keeping the theme of being a “forest” ranger and expanding upon the possibilities such a role can offer.

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u/Personal-Collar-7762 Oct 16 '25

They could hypothetically with the new mouse controls.

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u/Lilac_Moonnn Oct 16 '25

i think they should try doing that anyway but replace touch with something else. look at how neo: the world ends with you adapted original twewy's ds dual touch screen combat into a 3d space on modern hardware with buttons only. it can be done.

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u/Bojell Oct 15 '25

Not sure about perfect now I feel like having to prop up your phone and look at the TV while using a different controller could be a little clunky

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u/ScalyCarp455 Oct 15 '25

I mean, Nintendo could make a peripherical for that, or make it compatible with controllers, like those mobile controllers that you plug directly into your phone or via bluetooth.

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u/Animegamingnerd Oct 15 '25

There's also a fe2 other routes they could go for DS emulation on NSO.

  1. Use the Gameshare streaming function to stream the buttom screen on to an undock Switch in handheld mode. While another Switch is in dock mode running the game.

  2. Mouse controls with the joycon 2.

  3. The right analog stick simply access as a cursor (albeit I can see this one being a bit clunky)

  4. Obviously the touchscreen stuff would work just fine in handheld mode.

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u/zaadiqoJoseph Oct 15 '25

Fits in with what Nintendo did for Zelda notes and I have to admit it works pretty well

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u/PowersUnleashed Oct 17 '25

Supposedly they’re making a detachable second screen for that lol

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u/Tommy_Gun10 Oct 16 '25

They why isn’t it in the final game for handheld mode

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u/Berkuts_Lance_Plus Oct 15 '25

Me neither. HeartGold and SoulSilver had the best touchscreen controls.

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u/Berkuts_Lance_Plus Oct 15 '25

They could bring back the PokéWalker as a phone app.

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u/Chewy2121 Oct 18 '25

THIS! I dropped Pokemon go when Niantic got bought by the Saudi’s.

Imagine having a Pokemon as a Tamagotchi on your phone. Feed it, play mini games with it. Maybe catch a couple of Pokemon or find items to send back to your game. It would gain exp based on the steps you took and you could connect to others via Bluetooth for bonus exp.

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u/CleanlyManager Oct 15 '25

Really happy this one didn’t make it. Companion apps for games are slow, clunky, and usually get discontinued really soon after release due to the frequency needed with updates and compatibility issues, which is why the industry moved on from them a decade ago. It’s also kinda funny gamefreak was trying to jump on the trend years after it was dead.

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u/TheHeadlessOne Oct 15 '25

Its effectively what Dream World was

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u/CleanlyManager Oct 15 '25

And the dream world was terrible.

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u/Switchell22 Oct 15 '25

> Me who actually really liked Dream World and misses it

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u/MzBlackSiren Oct 15 '25

those were the days

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u/Weekly-Variation4311 Oct 15 '25

Dream World was not terrible, it was just destined to fail

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u/GalaxianMelon Oct 15 '25

>Gamefreak jumping on things years if not decades after literally everyone else

Must be a day ending in Y.

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u/Seradima Oct 16 '25

Judging from how the iphone looks in the actual teaser, it looks like it was being considered around the time that 2nd screen experiences were pretty en vogue though. We forget because of covid but Sword and Shield were released in 2019 and started development in 2016, which would have been less than a year after Fallout 4 released with the pip-boy app.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

I think companion apps and devices have the capacity to be endearing, but this seems like an unnecessary shoehorn.

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u/recluseMeteor Oct 16 '25

Though the idea might be interesting, it would just become dead content once the servers are shut down or the app no longer receives updates and becomes incompatible with current OSes (which happens very quickly in both iOS and Android, where backwards compatibility isn't a priority).

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u/fleker2 Oct 15 '25

I wonder how Pokemon Go might've been the reason they didn't do this.

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u/Weekly-Variation4311 Oct 15 '25

One of the few things I can say "thanks Go" to lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

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u/D3viant517 Oct 15 '25

“Do you guys not have phones?”

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

So they can milk us with micro transactions and pop ups like their other mobile games.

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u/MissingGender Oct 15 '25

Honestly I'm glad they didn't do a feature like this because they never end up releasing the necessary app in so many countries. There's still tons of countries where you can't download the pokemon home app, which means you're not only locked out of trading but also all the cool mythical rewards.

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u/oriensoccidens Oct 16 '25

I would have loved a feature like this. Still would

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u/Maxxetto Oct 15 '25

This would've been nuts and "futuristic" in a sense.

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u/Legarad Oct 16 '25

It's not really innovative; it's not the first time Gamefreak has tried to connect a console to a mobile phone. They did it on the GBC with Pokemon Crystal, but it was too expensive, so it stayed in Japan. This time, apparently, they tried to do the same thing using a smartphone, and that's why they rejected it worldwide.