A Nintendo of Europe survey posted on Reddit asks what games you’re likely to buy in the next 12 months. The last entry lists the Pokémon RPG for the Nintendo Switch! This is more evidence that Game Freak is indeed looking to launch Generation VIII before the year’s end and also that Nintendo is taking stock of player interest for the title.
The caveat here is that this is not an official release date by any means and could be subject to change. However, it is telling that Nintendo is willing to list it alongside other titles launching in 2018!
Is this sooner than you had anticipated? Do you have a Nintendo Switch yet or are you planning to buy one when the next Pokémon game launches?
Via: My Nintendo News
Are you actually fucking with me?
What is this a non believer???? lol
Honestly I can’t see the game coming any later than February of 2019. Between the anime breezing though all of the SM/USUM content and the rest of the franchise not having too much to market after this year in general I’m not sure it’s possible for the game to come out any later. Maybe a mid 2019 would work, but that’d be stretching it. There’s just not enough for them to cover to get us to late fall of 2019. Not without it being a total sh!t show. It’s a shame that gen 7 was rushed this much seeing as it’s actually a very good gen, but it is what it is. Much like the beauty of the cherry blossom flowers gen 7 will not last very long. Hopefully gen 8 is an amazing one and we can be satisfied with it.
I didn’t think of February. They could release it on February 27th next year. That said I still believe it’s happening this year. There is no telling how long gamefreak has been working on this game. Correct me if I am wrong but masuda wasn’t really involved with gen 7 that much? If so maybe it’s because he’s been working on the gen 8 games?
Actually a Febuary 2019 release could be symbolic knowing the first Pokémon game released in Febuary
Everytime someone says that Pokemon Switch is coming 2018 it physically hurts me like a voodoo doll
Why?
Because it isn’t happening
I am sorry but you can’t say that for a fact. As of now it’s up in the air and signs point to 2018/2019. We won’t know for sure until they announce it officially.
If it happens in 2018 the game will be absolute dogshit. It just will
I really doubt one extra year will help much if it’s going to be bad. Everyone bashed sun and moon and the gap year we got obviously didn’t stop them from hating on it. All in all we have no clue how long the switch title has been in development and how long gamefreak had the dev kits so it may have been a good while now
A year can get a lot done in game development (pretty much any project in existence can benefit from more time) and for all we know SuMo by but a year earlier would’ve been barebones or unfinished. It’s not a good comparison.
Oh honey you have no clue what difference a year can make.
Sun and Moon isn’t a relevant comparison
The real comparison is Diamond and Pearl. Their inexperience led to them pushing out a slow game with bad pacing and low polish. It took then until Platinum to fix it.
Like I said already to raven people need to quit jumping to conclusions that it’s coming out in 2019 for sure. The fact that it’s pt to release in 2018 or later speaks volumes that 2018 is the planned release and or later is in case it gets delayed. Will it come this year or next we don’t know for sure. I am just aggravated at people online acting like know it alls is all. And diamond and pearl were delayed as is and it obviously didn’t help so yeah
Dude if Diamond and Pearl was what we got after a delay imagine how fucking awful it must have been without the delay.
Nobody should want a 2018 release date. Pokémon fans need to learn some patience and give GameFreak time to get their sh*t together and make a good game for the first time since 2012.
the Last few games haven’t been THAT bad. Personally I enjoyed generation 6 quite a bit. ORAS moreso and gen 7 was pretty fun too. The main issue is gamefreak doesn’t hire enough people. And as I said overall I don’t care when it comes out. Either way I will get it. People just need to stop saying it isn’t happen until 2019 like it’s a fact because it isn’t. It could very easily release this year as well. There is no telling what they have planned right now
Overall I guess I am just keeping an open mind. If it releases this year cool if 2019 that’s cool too. either way we will all get the game and play it in the end. Hopefully we find out for sure by E3
You are so right about that. Its why I dread Diamond and Pearl remakes, because they won’t change that slow pacing. We will just get Primal Dialga and Palkia, and they will think that it will make the slow pacing worth it.
What? No just remake Platinum instead
I don’t think it will be dogshit if they choose to release in 2018, that is a pretty silly statement to make, since it is likely that they have been developing this game for some time now. The only things that can be confirmed are, that they are going to release on the Switch, they have been developing for a little while now and that it is possible that it will be released some time in 2018-2019.
They haven’t been working on this game for a long time for a fewreasons.
1. The Pokémon Company CEO has stated that he didn’t think that the Switch would be successful so they clearly had the 3DS in mind going forward until they saw the numbers
2. The “reveal” at E3 was incredibly vague. If the year were further along in development they would have dropped hints or maybe titles especially since we got Prime 4 that same E3
3. It’s a whole new system. If they rush a game out on a system they have no experience with in that all of a time span the game will suck.
4. Developer interviews have indicated that they have been in very early conception stages and have most likely been in development for only a few months now.
5. Unlike other major Switch games, there is no Wii U game that was being worked on to bring assets over to.
I have a gut feeling that we won’t be seeing Pokemon Switch until Q1 or Q2 2019, because of the reasons you have posted. They also seem to be in the hiring process. I would also assume that after the production was done on Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon that they might of started up-scaling the actual Pokemon models, but that process takes as long time due to adding additional animations, and I am guessing that they are updating the textures as well. So I suspect that we might see a trailer at E3 to keep the hype consistent, but there will be no show floor demo. If we are lucky we will see the starters before then, but who honestly knows.
Think Star Allies will be dogsh*t they are taking things all the way back from the unreleased Nintendo 64 game (They did confirmed this so fight me)
Star Allies is way easier to make than an RPG like Pokémon
Also they confirmed that they split there team for this newer people for USUM, the more experienced for Switch
Well it’s been in production for at least as long as USUM so it should be better than recent games if your saying the longer they take to make it the better it will be : )
Also just to note if you think I’m defending 2018 release, I’m not. I honestly don’t care as long as it happens as a whole I’m content (And I could go back and play every game and truely experience every region again then finish right before Switch comes out)
^ This is some true facts ^
They need to take their time and not botch such a key moment for the franchise
Who says they aren’t? Just because it’s possibly coming earlier than people expect doesn’t mean it’ll be rushed
i bet the legendary pokemon might be a bull who is a fire and rock type and a wild boar an ice rock type
Am I right in saying that Bayonetta 3 and Pokemon switch are the only titles in that list that don’t have a set date for release? Mario Tennis we at least know is coming this year.
I bet this’s yellow remake ……no way that GF can introduce new gen in new console that quick.
Well they still have to make everything from the ground up for this jump so I don’t know if remaking Kanto would really save them boatloads of time.
Making a new concept of map (another region) will take time more than u thought …….they don’t to introduce new pokemons either…..I think this’s enough reason
Actually as far as my understanding, there were 2 teams; One was working on Usum and the other on Pkm Switch
I didn’t aware of the details of that concept before. http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1516077758355.jpg
Wow, it’s really good. There isn’t really an ingame animation that showing those right? That’s a shame if not.
This makes me actually like Cosmoem now for its evolving looks up top
It really won’t shock me if the game comes out this year. So many signs are pointing towards it or early 2019. I keep seeing people saying they shouldn’t rush it but we need to ask ourself how long have they been working on the switch game exactly. When did the switch dev kits get sent out because I am pretty sure gamefreak were one of the first companies to get one
But I want Gen 4 remakes with HD Byron 🙁
Give it time it will happen! Personally I think it will happen on 2020!
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I recognize that anime lol help me out here.
Soul Eater and that is my husband Free
Looks like someone’s got good taste, noice
I always like the beefy men
I mean in anime my dude
That too.
I knew I recognized it lol loved that show when I watched it
Gen 4 is full of beautiful people
Give me that thing that I love.
Tbh I’d rather for it to come out in 2019 so they have more time to complete the game and not rush it like SM or XY was tbh.
But eh that makes sense I guess, they don’t have nearly as much big Switch titles this year as they had the past one sooo
My gen 5 partner mon was a fucking sigilyph
I’m so sorrry for you ='[
She was godlike
I will buy Switch on Pokémon gen 8 launches day. Of course I will buy Switch Pokemon Gen 8 edition.
Playing telltale walking dead right now. No matter how many times I play this game it still gives me the feels. Such a great game hope all three seasons come to switch eventually
I’m not going to pretend I think it can’t come this year, but if it is coming this year it’s a bit disappointing they’re not spending more time on their first console game.
‘But the dev ki-‘ They were probably finishing Gen 6 (earliest) or developing SuMo (latest) when they got that kit, meaning they’ve only really had since SuMo was finished to focus completely on this game since USUM was created by younger members
who made SuMo up to scratch with other paired versions but couldn’t add more because they launched the same game a year later.Yeah, it does seem like an incredibly short turnaround. On the other hand, maybe it isn’t Gen VIII? Seems like if it’s a remake or something else set in Gen VII that would cut down on development time.
Sleep… I need… it
Fuggin bacon bird… stop taking so long
It’s 4:00 in the morning and I’m getting nostalgic over a YouTube series about a couple of boys playing in a car simulator leading to a complex interdimensional narrative and it’s really fuckin me up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4VWgs7A6w4
This is a good ending
OH MY GOD THAT WAS SO FUCKING STRESSFUL FOR LITERALLY NO REASON!!!!
In other words, how are y’all?
Recovering from a night terror otherwise normal (by my standards)
Kinda okay, I have the Winter Break now and I just woke up half an hour ago. I’m still a little bit sick tho.
Well I am tired because I decided staying up till midnight to get Elgyem and Seismitoad so now I am having a terrible state of mind for school, but otherwise I am doing great and today’s the one day out of the 6 day school cycle that I have Lunch with my brother and 2 lunch periods so yay 😀
Official Nintendo survey and still some people on here have the cheek to say wont come out until 2019. Unless you know something that Reggie or GF dont, stop chatting nonsense.
If these games do come out in 2019, they’ll come out like December 31st
The majority of us hope these games come out 2019 simply because we don’t want a rushed pile of shitt like the last two gens. Don’t get me wrong, Alola was great. It had fantastic Pokemon and an equally incredible region. It had a lot of good going for it. Despite that, the region was relatively bare and had nearly no staying power once the main game was over. The aftergame was near nonexistent outside of the Ultra Wormhole, breeding was shittier than the generation before, and the metagame had gotten ten times more stale considering what mons became competitively relevant. Don’t get me wrong, USUM was flat out the most enjoyable game to play through for me since 5th gen, but once you finished it, there was literally nothing after.
So unless we end up getting a game with actual staying power, we’re just gonna get another stale mess that ends up being dropped after two months.
*if these games do come out in 2018,
I’m so tired of the “rushed” BS.
They Know What They Are Doing!
USUM
SuMo
X and Y
Oras
I mean it’s kinda clear they don’t
The 3DS games have objectively less offline functions, less Pokémon, and before USUM were easy enough to be baby’s first Pokémon game at most points.
Even if they’re not ‘rushed’ (which they are) they’re pretty damn bad.
At this point there is more evidence that it will, than won’t. But no guarantee.
The games were announced for 2018 or later. They easily could’ve went off off that info because there’s no other information indicating when it releases. If this wasn’t the case, I’d imagine game freak or Nintendo of Japan would’ve been the ones to announce it.
Not saying this isn’t proof or it can’t come out this year but it’s better to accept a possibility than to stick to your guns and look like an idiot if your wrong over such an arbitrary thing.
The article says:
“The caveat here is that this is not an official release date by any means and could be subject to change.”
While I would love to have it by the end of the year, I am expecting a March 2019 release.
I have to honestly say, I don’t care. When it comes, it comes as long as we get a whole bunch of new Pokémon in it I’m content. If that means 2019 or later, so be it.
I’d probably prefer either super late 2018 to mid 2019 anyway so I can get the games I want coming this year and get a job so I can pay for it when it comes out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQCb73NypjA
This seems interesting
I want to get back to making more Pokémon for Howlite knowing I’m so close to completing getting all the ideas, but so much else to do! Ugh