New Pokemon Game to be Announced Next Week?

In a recent Q&A with his fans - the director of the Pokemon Black and White games has hinted that the release of the third in the trio may be coming soon. The interview with Junichi Masuda - which can be watched at the end of this article (in Japanese) -  has him being asked when the third game of this Pokemon generation will be released. Here is his response at about 4:30 in the video:

Well, there's no reason to expect me to know that [about a third version], [crowd laughs] but I can't answer. But...but... I wonder if it's alright to say this....watch Pokemon Smash...if you want details.
Pokemon Smash is a Japanese, weekly, hour-long Pokemon variety show that airs on Sundays from 7:30AM-8:30AM on TV Tokyo. An episode typically involves the playing of a classic Pokemon episode or movie as well as announcing new information about the Pokemon franchise.

Junichi Musada reiterated on his Twitter account for Pokemon fans to watch Pokemon Smash or to follow his feed during the show. While not much us known about this Pokemon "Grey" or whatever it is to be called, it will likely add some new features to the game as previously done with Pokemon Platinum - adding new Wi-Fi features, the Battle Frontier (as with Pokemon Emerald), new Pokemon forms, and others.

And this movie's cute pokemon is... Keldeo!
The new Pokemon game is rumored to focus on the upcoming star the the next Pokemon movie being released in Japan July 14, 2012 - Keldeo, and will likely be the Pokemon featured on the cover art. Either this or Kyurem. It is unknown whether the next game will be a direct remake for the 3DS's screen or if Nintendo will add specific 3D features. In this writer's opinion the latter is likely to be true.

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