A major new 'core' Pokemon game is being made for Nintendo Switch ' here's everything we know so far

Pokmon is coming to the Nintendo Switchprepare yourself!Indeed, Nintendo says a "core RPG Pokmon title" is coming to the Nintendo Switchnot a spin-off, like "Pokmon Stadium" and "Pokmon Snap" way back on the Nintendo 64, but a full-on main series entry.The beloved Pokmon series of games has always been a portable affair.With few exceptions, the only way to engage with the long-running series was on Nintendo's handheld consoles. But with this new entry, that's about to change.Here's what we know so far:SEE ALSO:A real Pokmon game is coming to the Nintendo Switch and it's time to get hypedNintendo announced the new Pokmon game in a brief statement from Tsunekazu Ishihara, the president of The Pokmon Company.Without giving the game a name, or a release date, or even a look at the logo, Nintendo officially announced a new Pokmon game in June 2017."Game Freak has begun developing a core RPG Pokmon title on Nintendo Switch," Tsunekazu Ishihara, president of The Pokmon Company, said in the video. "It may not release for more than a year, but we hope you'll look forward to it all the same."As far as "official" statements go on the game, that's pretty much all there is.Of note: Ishihara specifically calls the game a "core RPG Pokmon title." That seems to indicate it's the next main entry in the long-running Pokmon game franchisethe successor to "Pokmon Ultra Sun" and "Pokmon Ultra Moon."The game shows up in Nintendo's financials with a placeholder name and a vague release window.I pulled the image above from Nintendo's most recent financial report, issued in April.It classifies the new "Pokmon" game with a placeholder name: "Pokmon RPG for Nintendo Switch." And the release window it gives is extremely vague: "2018 or later."You may have noticed that "2018 or later" means, "Literally all times." Indeed.Ishihara said in June 2017 that the game may not launch "for more than a year," and we're coming up on that first year pretty quickly. It wouldn't be a huge surprise if this new Pokmon game were ready for holiday 2018, but it also wouldn't be a huge surprise if it didn't come out for another year or more.Big, main entries in the Pokmon game series tend to launch every two to three years, but this one is an unknown given that it's on an entirely new console: Nintendo's Switch.It may have some tie-in with the outrageously popular mobile Pokmon game, "Pokmon Go."The "Pokmon" games were already enormously popularthen "Pokmon Go" launched on iPhone and Android, and became the most popular "Pokmon" game by miles.Nintendo's clearly aware of the importance of "Pokmon Go" to the overall fan base, and the studio developing the new "Pokmon" game for Switch is reportedly, "exploring ways to connect the main games to Pokemon Go." Kotaku deputy editor Patricia Hernandez confirmed as much back in October 2016.Crucially, "Pokmon Go" is not the creation of Game Freak, the Japanese studio that makes major "Pokmon" games. It was made by Niantic Labs, a California game studio that was spun off from Google. The company's first investors were a curious trio: Google, Nintendo, and The Pokmon Company.The new "Pokmon" game for Switch is being developed by Game Freak.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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