Huh?! Jigglypuff is Warming Up For a Pokémon 30th Anniversary 'Special Video' at The Super Bowl

Pokémon volition aerial a "special video" to people the franchise's 30th day during this weekend's Super Bowl LX.

A teaser trailer published online this day includes fan-favorite Jigglypuff seemingly backstage, performing vocal warmup exercises. And yes, we bash perceive the archetypal Jigglypuff opus from the archetypal play of the Pokémon anime.

Exactly what Pokémon's Super Bowl spot volition contain, we tin lone conjecture — though fans volition surely beryllium hoping the franchise takes vantage of the event's immense planetary assemblage to connection a glimpse astatine its widely-anticipated 10th generation.

Celebrate 30 years of Pokémon with a peculiar video debuting during Super Bowl LX connected February 8! #Pokemon30 pic.twitter.com/gOgvTnlkdW

2026 is expected to beryllium an tremendous twelvemonth for Pokémon, arsenic the satellite dominating bid celebrates the information it has been 3 decades since its archetypal games launched successful Japan connected the Game Boy. We cognize for definite that astatine slightest 1 caller Pokémon crippled volition get this year, excessively — the promising-looking beingness sim spin-off Pokémon Pokopia — but fans are bare for more.

While not announced yet for certain, it's widely-expected that a afloat Pokémon Presents broadcast (akin to a Nintendo Direct) volition aerial connected the series' existent anniversary, February 27. A akin broadcast has taken spot regularly implicit the past fewer years. It's present that fans are anticipating the adjacent procreation of Pokémon games and creatures to get their due reveal, precisely 4 years connected from the series' ninth procreation games for Nintendo Switch, Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet.

Last year, leaked accusation deed the net that purported to uncover work-in-progress details of the upcoming games. Now, each eyes volition beryllium connected Pokémon itself to marque its adjacent procreation official. Could we get a glimpse of each that astatine the Super Bowl? Or is Jigglypuff simply readying a half-time show-style recital? It would beryllium a batch of wealth to walk conscionable for a singalong.

There's nary connection yet precisely erstwhile during the hours-long lawsuit that the Pokémon video whitethorn appear.

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