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Official Pokémon Sword and Shield speculation thread (Updated June 5th, 2019)

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Lufenium

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I'm not gonna be surprised if we have to wait until E3. We've waited this long with little news, another month isn't that big of a deal.
 

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These are console games, which will cost much more than 3ds games. They should be bigger than 3ds games --> there should be much more stuff to reveal.
I'm using logic right now and I know it's something I shouldn't do with game freak but I seriously hope they didn't just bring a 3ds game to the switch apart from the graphical side. If I have to pay 60 dollars for these games, I'm expecting they were smart enough to make console games and not just more expensive 3ds games. The fact that a remake of Yellow which required litterally a year of development and barely added anything new to the original game earned almost the same money of Zelda, is something my mind cannot really accept. The fact that a game which is 20 years old now costs 60 dollars because of 3d graphics and pokemon in the overworld while everything else is in the exact same position is just unfair.

Yep agree 100%, the fact USUM did as well (if not better) sales wise as B2W2 despite B2W2 being so much better and requiring so much more effort and work makes me feel a bit sick tbh
 

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I don't think that they are going to do that, especially for a new gen.

One month won't matter in the long term, any information they release now they can release later. But Detective Pikachu is about to release, I think they're going to want all eyes on that for the next few weeks.

E3 feels like an opportune time to drop a massive, enjoyable infodump on players, and hopefully that'll be the start of a regular news cycle for SwSh.
 

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It's very possible we might not hearing anything until the week of Corocoro or even until the end of May (just a tidbit of info only) than BAM get info during E3.
 

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One month won't matter in the long term, any information they release now they can release later. But Detective Pikachu is about to release, I think they're going to want all eyes on that for the next few weeks.

E3 feels like an opportune time to drop a massive, enjoyable infodump on players, and hopefully that'll be the start of a regular news cycle for SwSh.
Detective Pikachu won't interfere with Sword & Shield. It will actually help it.
 

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If I have to pay 60 dollars for these games, I'm expecting they were smart enough to make console games and not just more expensive 3ds games.
Renting games is a thing. It's cheap and beats disappointment.
 

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It's still not even close to Corocoro time. May can still provide information.

It's not as if the E3 drop is that massive.
 

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It's still not even close to Corocoro time. May can still provide information.

It's not as if the E3 drop is that massive.
Yeah. The last new gen E3 drop only revealed the first route Pokemon. They have almost always had information in May. An American made live action movie isn't going to change that.
 

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I'll never understand why some people say that news can't drop around the same time as Movies.

It's not like most fans or people interested in the series are going to go "I have watched this pokemon movie it is now time for me to not look at/read about/think about ANYTHING pokemon related for the next month. If anything I'd expect the opposite. "Aw man this is great I enjoyed that movie I want to see if there's anything else interesting in the pokemon side of things- AW MAN LOOK AT ALL THIS COOL NEW GAME STUFF. HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE."
 

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I'll never understand why some people say that news can't drop around the same time as Movies.

It's not like most fans or people interested in the series are going to go "I have watched this pokemon movie it is now time for me to not look at/read about/think about ANYTHING pokemon related for the next month. If anything I'd expect the opposite. "Aw man this is great I enjoyed that movie I want to see if there's anything else interesting in the pokemon side of things- AW MAN LOOK AT ALL THIS COOL NEW GAME STUFF. HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE."
Maybe people think companies would assume fans would be like "OH MY GOD IN A FEW MONTHS TWO GAMES WILL RELEASE I CAN'T POSSIBLY WATCH THIS MOVIE OF THE SAME FRANCHISE NOW BECAUSE A TRAILER HYPED ME UP FOR THEM"
 

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Detective Pikachu won't interfere with Sword & Shield. It will actually help it.

That...wasn't my point? My point was that they likely have more focus on a product out this month, rather than a product out in six.

It makes more sense from a marketing standpoint. It's kindof like how they don't want Pokemon game news sharing a Direct time, they may not want game news getting lost in the midst of all the movie hype. I don't know, I'm not an expert, but the game silence/heavy movie promo could indicate that they want the focus on a current product.

It's still not even close to Corocoro time.

CoroCoro is just over a week away, it's fairly close. It's likely to leak even sooner.
 

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That...wasn't my point? My point was that they likely have more focus on a product out this month, rather than a product out in six.

It makes more sense from a marketing standpoint. It's kindof like how they don't want Pokemon game news sharing a Direct time, they may not want game news getting lost in the midst of all the movie hype. I don't know, I'm not an expert, but the game silence/heavy movie promo could indicate that they want the focus on a current product.



CoroCoro is just over a week away, it's fairly close. It's likely to leak even sooner.
It's typical for there to be game silence in March and April though because those are traditionally big movie news months. They're not big news now so it makes sense to switch gears into upcoming game news to keep drawing attention to the franchise.
 

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I just don't understand that logic. Like we even had a movie trailer and the SWSH reveal on the same day. Like wtf, both are equally important.
Yes. The movie would actually get more people interested in Sword & Shield. It's not competition, but rather a gateway.
 

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It's still not even close to Corocoro time. May can still provide information.
Corocoro could leak within the next 5-6 days. Its pretty close to Corocoro time. I seriously hope its not just more movie info though.

May always has been a big news month though, so there's hope for Sword and Shield news. We've gotten news for X and Y, Sun and Moon, as well as the reveals of ORAS and Let's Go in May. I THINK The Unova starters also.
 

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Corocoro could leak within the next 5-6 days. Its pretty close to Corocoro time. I seriously hope its not just more movie info though.

May always has been a big news month though, so there's hope for Sword and Shield news. We've gotten news for X and Y, Sun and Moon, as well as the reveals of ORAS and Let's Go in May. I THINK The Unova starters also.
While I agree with what you say, I think a trailer will drop before corocoro, even before It could leak. I mean, if we are gonna get legends this month, they should have their own trailer to shine and not be presented to the world through a blurry Japanese scan.
The golden week ends today. I expect news before or on the 10th.
 

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It's still early in May. I wouldn't expect any info until around the 11th through the 18th or somewhere thereabouts.


Also, has pokemon ever revealed info on new gen games at E3? I honestly can't remember...
 
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