Pokémon Switch Dated for “2018 or Later”

Previously only vaguely announced as coming in the future, the Pokémon Switch game now has a tiny bit more information thanks to Nintendo’s latest supplementary earnings release. Thank God for publicly traded companies. The full thing is available freely online.

 

 

It’s still a fairly vague date, but Nintendo have given Pokémon Switch a release window of “2018 or later”, notable as the vaguest date in the document besides the even more elusive Metroid Prime 4.

 

This likely means they’re aiming for a 2018 release, likely Q4 for a holiday release, but it may end up being pushed back to 2019.

 

 

Full on, main-line Pokémon games usually have about a two year cycle, so a goal of late 2018 seems to make sense. That’s discounting Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon, which will heavily lean on Sun & Moon’s pre-existing materials, similar to Black & White 2.

 

Perhaps Pokémon Switch will be quite ambitious, if they’re not quite sure they can make it in 2018 even at this early stage.

 

Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness for GameCube

 

It’s one of the most exciting things on a list of titles that will all probably be very good. A lot of Nintendo’s biggest franchises seem to be coming to Switch! It’s time to go all in!

 

This could be the first mainline Pokémon game ever on what is technically a “home console”, and the first Pokémon RPG on one since Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness in 2005.

 

Pokémon Switch will be coming to the Nintendo Switch 2018 or later.

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