在《寶可夢 風/波》公布後，近期有網路爆料稱，這款第十世代本傳作品在早期開發中曾計劃融入大量MMO（大型多人在線）玩法，包括類似酒店大廳的社交空間和大型團體戰等在線互動內容，旨在讓玩家能在同一場景中進行更多組隊冒險與對戰。
Pokémon Winds and Waves originally were planned to include lots of MMO-like features. The hotel lobby worked as like a pseudo MMO lobby with lots of players and raids were also planned to be scaled to many players. A lot of those concepts were scrapped as the game just got too ambitious and now Game Freak is developing a separate multi-region MMORPG to use them.
然而，由於項目野心過於龐大，開發團隊最終決定將這些MMO機制從《寶可夢 風/波》中剝離出來，並成立一個獨立的開發項目。該項目代號為「Project Seed」，被視為系列未來的重要探索方向。其核心構想是將以往多個遊戲地區無縫連接，構建一個統一且互聯的龐大世界，打造真正的《寶可夢》MMO體驗。
The next evolution of the Pokémon video games: 🌏 Project Seed 🌏 - Multi-region MMO - Takes place in Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh and Kitakami - All of the regions will be interconnected into a single world - Currently in pre-production at Game Freak Coming 2029 or later
據透露，「Project Seed」目前仍處於早期開發階段，預計最快也要到2029年或更晚才有可能推出，因此未來仍存在較大不確定性。從《寶可夢 劍/盾》的玩家同屏顯示，到《寶可夢 朱/紫》的四人組隊探索，Game Freak近年來一直在嘗試加強系列的多人玩法，此次爆料也與這一發展方向相符。
