EU Gets Pokémon Sun & Moon 3DS XL & Steelbook Special Edition

It has been announced that the Pokémon Sun & Moon-inspired 3DS will not only be launching in Japan, but Europe as well (with a North American release also highly likely). The 3DS features artwork of the new legendary Pokémon, Solgaleo and Lunala, in white lineart on top of a glossy black finish.

In addition, there will be a special edition of the two games which come in collectible steel cases featuring art of the Alola region within.

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What do you think? Does it look like something you’ll purchase?

<3 PJ

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466 thoughts on “EU Gets Pokémon Sun & Moon 3DS XL & Steelbook Special Edition”

  1. It looks nice but I have an issue,
    A: I live in Merica’ so I don’t have the ability to buy it
    Dos: Whenever you open it, onlookers see the design upside down

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  2. Hooray yet another item we can’t have or we have to wait longer than everyone to get! We Americans should get something for our troubles!

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  3. As much as I love Pokemon, I never splash out on the collectible version of the game. I mean if I can get a pre-order bonus, I’ll do that but spending more money than I need to is never an option, haha
    I do hope that they’ll release both Sun & Moon in one like they have announced for Japan & what they did with FE: Fates

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  4. Ooh be quiet you who lives in USA, at least you don’t need to wait to the 23th nov until you get the game, oooh it will be hard to not get into the internet for when it comes at the 18th at the rest of the world we in europe have to wait and try not get spoiled.

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    • Hey you have the ability to get that packaging we so far get nothing and I had to wait almost two months to get yo-kai watch for christmas so you can wait 5 or 6 days for it!

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      • As far as i remember yokai watch released in may or so here in europe. Soo why exactly that yokai statement? 2 months aren’t that much compared to a year, which we often have here. Just take harvest moon, america always has it a year before europe does. I don’t see why you feel neglected if something might come to you a bit later, if we have that “problem” all the time o:

        Please don’t feel offended though!

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        • I’m not offended I shouldn’t get fired up at things I sincerely apologize (I follow a similar way of the Ninja to not disgrace my honor so I apologize for accidents and me getting tantrums for nothing) So I apologize!

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          • You know what, you have never had a single nice thing to say since I saw your name first appear here and its really disappointing. You recently had a crisis of your own and there were so many people on this site that came to your aid and tried to help you and cheer you up, and yet all you do on here is spout hate, you do not deserve those people’s kindness if this is how you treat others and honestly if you don’t change your ways you’re going to be a very lonely person, I would wish you all the best, but clearly you think you’re already it.

            Grow up.

          • Honestly Auragar do you have to say F**k to every single thing people say! thank you The lavender Swirlix my thoughts exactly!

          • You at least can try to be more positive in your replies. I get that you have a rough time now, but if you have to lash out against people here, you should refrain from being here for a while. And you can in fact be an adult in age, but be childish in your behavior. I wish you all the best.

          • I can’t be positive. There is nothing to be positive about. And sure but I haven’t been. I have only stated that something that is so obviously fake is obviously fake.

          • I think I’ve said certain things to you before, but try. If you don’t even try, you’ll never get to where you want to be.
            And I also remember telling you to fight any thought you don’t like. Don’t let it consume you, question it, fight it.
            It’s not going to get better in one day, but it will if you continue to do it.

          • People can change. Thoughts can change. Change is everywhere and it happens to anyone.
            It will happen to you, if you try to do something about it.
            I know you don’t believe me, but it happened to me before. I changed and I know you can change too.

          • I’ve seen plenty of people change in my short life. And I have changed so much too. If you look for it, you can see it.

          • I have. I know you don’t believe me, but I used to be all negative. Used to be insecure and feared I would be all alone. I felt empty and hollow.
            But then I tried to get better, questioned those thoughts. I’m not perfect and my mind gets to me sometimes, but now I love myself. I became positive and changed my thought patterns.
            It was a struggle I had and it’s not something I had within me. I changed.

          • My older brother is completely different than he was even 4 years ago. Through out his whole life he would get in fights, be angry, suicidal, hateful and just a complete mess. But now? He has a girlfriend that he loves, a job he enjoys and is just super nice, responsible and funny. My mom still helps him out with some things but he trys to pay what he can on his own. He is freaking awesome People change.

          • How about instead of being too stubborn to open your mind to what anyone here is saying, you actually go look at proof that people do change?

          • I think he’s pretty content with himself tbh, the dude probably thinks he’s the next Jesus from how he speaks

          • I don’t think I’m the “next” Jesus because there was never a first Jesus. At least not the one the stupid ass bible acts like was real.

          • Haven’t I warned you before the insulting religion will get you into some serious controversy? The lavender swirlix was just using “Jesus” as an expression, they were not actually trying to bring up religion into this conversation.

          • Clearly they were because Jesus is a religious symbol. As I said so long as nobody brings it up I won’t but he did like an idiot.

          • No, they were not. They were using “the next Jesus” as an way to express how you think you are better than us.

          • It’s no use trying to convince you about this. Just respect other’s opinions, and everyone here will respect yours.

          • gurl don’t come into my territory and make me school you on religion, most of the bible can be taken with a grain of salt as the newer parts were written by men, the only thing jesus ever preached about was love, so I guess you’re right, you’re not him, because you’re too pessimistic

          • There you are again disrespecting people’s beliefs and opinions. This time you are insulting most of the world.

          • An neither does anyone in the world. Many believe in a deity, many do not. But everyone is entitled to their opinion, and everyone is entitled to having their opinion respected.

          • Do you not understand that there are people that have different experiences and lives than you do? I think drawing is super fun but for some people, it is stressful. Some people believe in a God, I’m not really sure. Everyone is different and they aren’t wrong for being different

          • There is just no reasoning with you is there? Life would probably easier if you just accept that some people think differently

          • I don’t respect nor disrespect what people think. And I don’t care if people have issue with me. I am who I am and I will always be that way. They don’t have to like me and I don’t have to like them. That is just the nature of the world. *shrug*

          • No matter how you put it, calling people names for beliefs is blatant disrespect, but there is no use trying to tell you this for the millionth time.

          • lol, and I bet you have “logic” to back this up too, and yet you can’t, I certainly cannot tell you if religion is legit or not either because nobody knows for sure, but if we look at the base of almost all the religions in the world there is a similar story in them, take jesus and glooscap for instance, both were figures that came and went for their people and even both had a last supper, but you’re entitled to your opinion, but you can’t dismiss it anymore than i can prove it, your opinions are not facts as much as you like to believe they are

          • Exactly and you say your no troll but troll means someone who uses rude comments to hurt others feelings my can’t even say friend is TROLLING!

          • Well want to know what using facts to strike down others opinions gets you? no friends like here!

          • you sound like a sociopath dude, i don’t know if thats your intention but caring about people is part of the human existence, and the only people that lack empathy and caring usually end up in jail, so for your sake I hope you care about someone, otherwise thats kinda frightening

          • ಠ_ಠ you should care…. your parents/or gaurdians/family should care, now I’m not saying that you future is sealed but I am saying that if you are so confident in your belief all the time that you are always right and nobody truly matters, whats to say stop you someday from hurting someone just because you think you’re right in doing so…

          • I know violence is wrong and will never hurt anybody willingly. I abide by the truth of things. I would love to be able to kill people but the laws say that is wrong so I won’t. I am not stupid.

          • Thats not normal…. you shouldn’t not want to kill people because its against the law, but rather because you do not get to choose who has a right to live and who doesn’t, every human life is precious even the ones that make us angry sometimes… I would really urge you to reflect on yourself and your ways… but thats all I will say

          • Dude what you should do go look in a Mirror look at what you said think about your life and if you can’t see other wise I hope you at least leave use out of your self absorbed sociopathic emo belief on life and go make your self useful away from this site!

          • That isnt healthy dude. No one can be right on everything. I would rather live an ignorant happy life than a knowledgeable sad life. You have to find a balance

          • I don’t really know you, but from what I’ve heard from you about yourself, you aren’t very happy. Where has being right really gotten you?

          • A person may have existed but no person ever performed any fucking miracles like curing the fucking blind or whatever other bullshit and nobody was killed and then came back to life either. Religion is stupid bullshit.

          • yeah don’t be a person who has to bring rude athest comments on let people live thier lives as we should

          • Religion is a false construct made to make people feel better about their hollow lives and to explain science before science was real and disproved any supernatural bullshit.

          • There really is no need to insult someone’s religion. May I remind you that this website is about pokemon. Freaking pokemon. There is no need to be nasty about something that is completely unrelated to anything.

          • Yes, not respecting people’s opinions is very childish. Just because you have your opinion does not mean you can go around cursing and calling people idiots because they do not share the same views as you.

          • I don’t have an opinion I have facts. And I am not disrespecting anybody’s opinion I am just saying that if you think something that is clearly fake is real then you are an idiot.

          • Your supposed logic is somewhat flawed. Being too stubborn to accept otherwise is holding you back.

          • Well then just leave people alone your logic shouldn’t be the cause of people not coming back for their ideas and dreams to be crushed by your Logic!

          • I am hardly a fool because I only use logic which means I am anything but a fool. All the other idiots that don’t use logic are fools.

          • Calling somebody names because you don’t think they are real is quite plainly disrespecting somebody’s opinion.

    • They do look a little fake off Li/bra said from Deviant but these look amazing the moon actually look like a spacial theme in the back!

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  5. So tomorrow is Mystery Dungeon, I’ve decided to treat myself since this Friday I’ll be paid
    Parts of me want to get Blue and Sky buuuuuut I for now only one

    But which was one and who should I aim to be

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  6. Something I just realized that I want in sun and moon is a sort of plot twist champion like Blue was. Instead of the champion being this character you saw once or twice in the story, I want to champion to be someone that no one expects.

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    • Flygon needs a buff
      To starters HA should be Sand Stream
      And as for its Mega it could receive a hefty boost in Special Attack and Speed so to compete with other Dragons
      And for its ability Sand Rush
      And none of that Bug/Dragon bull, Ground/Dragon always since Megas never change primary type

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    • Mega Flygon would be good as a Special Attacker as mentioned before.

      Keep it Dragon/Ground, but I hope it gets an updated Moveset. Give it Quiver Dance, or something to differentiate it from other dragons.

      Quiver Dance
      Earth Power
      Dragon Pulse
      Fire Blast

      Would be a good set, it just needs that boost to its attacking stats.

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  7. I think the 3ds doesn’t look appealing to me because Solgaleo is so small compared to Lunaala. I know that Solgaleo is physically smaller, but it just looks odd to me.

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  8. Hmm. Seems we have a real life war between the Heroes of Truth and Ideals going on here in the comments. Guess Gen 5 taught us nothing at all.

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    • I’m not dismissing his opinion. I’m showing my side and offering advice.
      I used to think those thoughts and it hurt me. I wish to help.

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      • he’s dismissing yours though… too bad too, you were the kindest and most calm one, you have a wonderful soul clearly

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      • I can respect that because I too felt that way, but you need to be able to recognize when someone isn’t quite in a place where they are willing to accept help. Sometimes it’s better just to let it be.

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        • But as someone trying to get a job where I can help people, I try to push that as far as I can. I know when to stop but I at least try.

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          • well seeing as how he just said below that no human life is precious and he wants us all to die, I say we all just stop offering him help and just ignore him from this point on

    • Really though, the only issue we have here is that he is disrespecting anything anyone says that he thinks is incorrect.

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        • Again, your “knowing” is literally just your opinion. An opinion that you are entitled to, just like everyone else. The issue is that you don’t think that you are disrespecting anyone, because you believe these things are the way they are. Your opinion is fine, but the insulting of others was very unnecessary and plainly not okay.

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          • People can’t change = your opinion
            There is no deity = your opinion
            The icons are fake = your opinion

            You keep saying that logic dictates these things are true, but I don’t want your logic. It is ok that these are your opinion, but if you want people to believe that you are right, try stating some real evidence for once.

          • Hey man just let it go, it won’t get anyone anywhere. Let’s let him believe what he believes 🙂

          • You’re right. This conversation is clearly going nowhere. I really just don’t know when to end it.

          • I have that too, but it just occurred to me that the conversation was going nowhere. Let’s just enjoy Pokejungle 🙂

          • Fact – “a thing that is indisputably the case.”

            Logic – ”
            characterized by or capable of clear, sound reasoning.”

            Opinion – “a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.”

            Explain to me, the reasoning behind your ‘logic’ and how your opinion is somehow fact. Just saying “The Evidence is logic” is truthfully making you look ignorant.

    • Lol. He’s the most negative person I’ve met. Literally everything anyone thinks is wrong. Lol. It’s almost cute.

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      • For all of its problems, I cant bring myself to dislike it. It brought me so much fun when I was first getting into pokemon again

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        • For me it was a game that finally brought Pokemon to my Wii that I thought was useless 🙂 4th Gen is my favorite gen and this game contributed to that 🙂

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          • I didnt even realize how much stuff there was to do in Platinum until I saw Chuggaconroy’s LP

          • Those games were awesome! Diamond is one of my favorites, and Empoleon is my second favorite Pokemon. I’m really looking forward to their remakes in SM style

          • I would cry. It will look so beautiful and it will breath more life into a region I love so dearly <3

          • The day Sinnoh remakes come out will be the day I can die without regrets. It really hurts me when I hear people say that Sinnoh doesn’t deserve to be remade, and when people say they are the worst Pokemon games.

          • I know, I feel the same. And people say that cause it’s slow and the variety of Pokemon. I mean, they are problems but it was the first DS game, it fixed some of the issues in Platinum and a remake would DEFINITELY fix it.
            There’s also some other reasons but I see those reasons so much so it kind of bothers me.

          • I think for games how they work out Pokemon at Nintendo for future is:
            Sun & moon
            Diamond/Pearl remake
            New region
            Yellow/ Blue remake
            some others
            and one day if pokemon ends a game that includes every region every pokemon and be the greatest last blowout EVER!!!

          • I think the only way that idea could work is if you don’t have access to your Pokemon from other regions until you beat the e4 of that region.

          • True I had the idea that levels would be lowered back to 5 after beating each champion but that sounds silly when you say it out loud!

          • I feel like if people said they were the worst that would make them great candidates for a remake, now I only recently got to play Pearl version and still have yet to beat it but I have no problem with it except the slowness of the battles and such, so I would welcome a remake

          • I think they are going to be some of the last Nintendo made 3DS games before the next handheld

          • Same 🙂 Diamond was the game that made me realize I’ll always love Pokemon while I was in a time questioning if I would.
            Platinum is awesome and HGSS were nice remakes

          • It’s so amazing to see so many people praising gen 4 here! 😀 So often I hear people say that gen 4 sucks and was the worst gen, and those were my favorite games.

  9. That New 3DS really isn’t anything special. Just looks like a crummy sticker someone slapped on it. I think the black DS’ are pretty ugly anyway. And of course Europe is getting the steelbooks…AGAIN.

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