Official Pre-Pokémon Sword & Pokémon Shield Speculation & Leaks thread

[Adelon]

I think we will not see Kanto or Sinnoh or a new region this year.

This has to be a gap year.

 

[InfernapeTheWise]

I think we will not see Kanto or Sinnoh or a new region this year.

This has to be a gap year.

How so?

 

[Defiant]

Yeah I was thinking Pokenchi too. Or Pokemon Sunday as it used to be.

 

[goncalomgs]

I think we will not see Kanto or Sinnoh or a new region this year.

This has to be a gap year.

It will not be a gap year, not will all these leakers and credible people telling us the games will come out later this year. 2019 might be a gap year. I'm leaning towards this first Switch game being the last 7th generation game and in 2020 we will finally get the first 8th generation game

 

[RileyXY1]

It will not be a gap year, not will all these leakers and credible people telling us the games will come out later this year. 2019 might be a gap year. I'm leaning towards this first Switch game being the last 7th generation game and in 2020 we will finally get the first 8th generation game

Why do you think that? They would never split a generation onto two different consoles.

 

[goncalomgs]

Why do you think that? They would never split a generation onto two different consoles.

They would have never done a lot of things, but they did. Pokémon is losing that predictability that we were used to.

 

[Zorkel567]

Why do you think that? They would never split a generation onto two different consoles.

They would never release new Pokemon mid-generation. They'd never drop/skip a 3rd version. They'd never introduce one Eevelution by itself. They'd never release two generations on one console.

Gamefreak doesn't seem to adhere to these traditions that people have seemed to think they do. While I don't think they would do that either, there's no reason to dismiss the possibility.

 

[dvor]

calling zeraora global trailer in a hour, bit before the movie trailer.

 

[VelVoxelRaptor]

It will not be a gap year, not will all these leakers and credible people telling us the games will come out later this year. 2019 might be a gap year. I'm leaning towards this first Switch game being the last 7th generation game and in 2020 we will finally get the first 8th generation game

According to the "patterns" I mentioned earlier, there are only 3 possible gap years. 2017, 2019, or 2022. And we know 2017 was not a gap year.

 

[Extroth]

A gap year would be odd. There is usually something else Pokemon related that comes out during a gap year and there has been no hits of that. Plus we do have credible sources saying a new game this year. But I guess on the bright side if it is a gap year this year we can throw a bunch of these sorces off the credible list.

 

[RileyXY1]

They would have never done a lot of things, but they did. Pokémon is losing that predictability that we were used to.

They would never release new Pokemon mid-generation. They'd never drop/skip a 3rd version. They'd never introduce one Eevelution by itself. They'd never release two generations on one console.

Gamefreak doesn't seem to adhere to these traditions that people have seemed to think they do. While I don't think they would do that either, there's no reason to dismiss the possibility.

Doesn't mean that they would throw all common sense out the window. They would be unable to directly communicate with each other if this is the case, defying the definition of a generation.

 

[VelVoxelRaptor]

Doesn't mean that they would throw all common sense out the window.

How would that be throwing common sense out the window?

They would be unable to directly communicate with each other if this is the case, defying the definition of a generation.

What is the definition of a Generation? Last I heard New Pokemon = New Generation but things changed in US/UM. Things are changing and gamefreak can do whatever they want. And with Poke Bank, it doesn't matter anymore. I believe Poke Bank is the future.

 

[InfernapeTheWise]

Doesn't mean that they would throw all common sense out the window. They would be unable to directly communicate with each other if this is the case, defying the definition of a generation.

They would tho.Monster Hunter XX for example can.

 

[goncalomgs]

Doesn't mean that they would throw all common sense out the window. They would be unable to directly communicate with each other if this is the case, defying the definition of a generation.

You have Pokémon Bank to trade Pokémon from the previous games, and like has been said before, Game Freak has already broke the definition of a generation by introducing new Pokémon that can't be used when battling online or trading because they were only introduced in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon.

 

[SushiPushi]

Doesn't mean that they would throw all common sense out the window. They would be unable to directly communicate with each other if this is the case, defying the definition of a generation.

??????????? *and 100 more*

If you can have a DS communicate with a Wii, you can have a 3DS communicate with a Nintendo Switch.

 

[Plubio]

Monster Hunter XX uses internet to connect between Switch and 3DS.
Locally Switch cannot connect with anything Nintendo related.

 

[KiwiDude]

Sorry, I was missing out on stuff for the past week. Wasn't there a movie trailer announced?

 

[Feign]

You have Pokémon Bank to trade Pokémon from the previous games, and like has been said before, Game Freak has already broke the definition of a generation by introducing new Pokémon that can't be used when battling online or trading because they were only introduced in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon.

They did this with Gen VI and Hoenn Megas, too. It's an interesting choice since it would be pretty easy to patch things in these days. I guess the conflict is someone not having an internet connection and trying to battle locally. Although I don't know if you can battle locally since I've only traded between a 3DS locally. They could just have the patch as part of Ultra Sun and Moon to get around it. Truthfully, it's likely to incentivize getting a new copy. Oh well. I do think having the same gen on multiple consoles would be weird, but considering Stars was accepted as a potential real game, it shouldn't be a surprise if that happens.

 

[GojiWright]

less than an hour right?

 

[RileyXY1]

Monster Hunter XX uses internet to connect between Switch and 3DS.
Locally Switch cannot connect with anything Nintendo related.

This would be a problem and one of the reasons why the new Switch game will be Generation 8.