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

[Scruffyjay]

I guess 14 days is way longer than most announcements for the date of a pokemon direct. If they announce it in this direct, it'd probably be the 16th at the latest.

 

[RileyXY1]

it's worth mentioning that every time we've had a pokemon direct that announced new games , it happened within a 1-2 week span of a regular direct. A lot of things are lining up too well. I really think this month is it. Pokemon day being exactly 2 weeks after this upcoming direct might be a coincidence, but given the mewtwo reveal + q&a, I'm very hopeful

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Although in those cases, the Pokemon Direct came first.

 

[SodiumChloride]

We would have also had some sort of trademark filings if they were gearing up to announce something. I still think we may have something coming before the end of February.

I don't think they will announce them in the nintendo direct but I think gamefreak would have learned their lesson by now
Like how usum wasn't trademarked until it was announced

 

[Nicolas721]

I think we could see Detective Pikachu for Switch announced, I doubt they'll miss out the movie.

Gen 2 Quest is harder to predict, as we only have the placeholders to guess so we don't even know if it's on development. They could release Meltan and Melmetal only, which would coincide with their anime appearance.

 

[dvor]

I think we could see Detective Pikachu for Switch announced, I doubt they'll miss out the movie.

This is actually a pretty good guess, the movie is looking to be huge.
make total sense to me

 

[Oriden]

I don't think they will announce them in the nintendo direct but I think gamefreak would have learned their lesson by now
Like how usum wasn't trademarked until it was announced

Sun/Moon and LGPE's logos both showed up only a day before announcement so... I don't know that it's something that they can really time.

 

[Dorothy]

I think we could see Detective Pikachu for Switch announced, I doubt they'll miss out the movie.

A port, sequel, or expansion? I can't see it being a straight port with enhanced visuals, it's kind of too tiny a game to justify putting out on home console at full price.

 

[Silktree]

A expanded port with around 50% extra chapters would work nicely.

But any game can work on a home console for a reasonable price.

 

[Zachie]

pls no, detective pikachu was awful..

 

[IncineROAR]

I don't think they will announce them in the nintendo direct but I think gamefreak would have learned their lesson by now
Like how usum wasn't trademarked until it was announced

My post said nothing about the games being announced in the direct. I just stated that I think we could have an announcement of the games before end of month. I remember for SM, the trademark filing, announcement of the pokemon direct, and reveal of the games were almost in sync with one another. Like all occurred in a span of 46-48 hours.

 

[William-Jdubz]

I agree, it was barely a game and was incredibly boring, but given most pokemon spin off games are, it wasn't surprising.

 

[Zachie]

I agree, it was barely a game and was incredibly boring, but given most pokemon spin off games are, it wasn't surprising.

Well, I enjoyed all of the PMD games and Pokemon Ranger games but all of the rest of the spinoffs were pretty lackluster tbh

 

[Stratelier]

I agree, it was barely a game and was incredibly boring, but given most pokemon spin off games are, it wasn't surprising.

As much as I hate the term, "visual novel" is incredibly apt for describing story-driven adventure games.

 

[prog rocker]

I don't know, I liked most spin-offs with the exception of Trozei, Quest and Duel, although the latter two are because they are unavailable in my country and my cell phone can't play them (yes, I'm kinda bitter about that).

Detective Pikachu sounds kinda short, and easy, but maybe I'll try it one boring afternoon.

 

[dvor]

I still want my mystery dungeon game on home console, those always have a better story telling than the mainline games.

 

[Zachie]

I still want my mystery dungeon game on home console, those always have a better story telling than the mainline games.

I'd love for a PMD or Ranger game on Switch. Not sure how they'd work out the Ranger mechanics while docked but there must be a way.

 

[dvor]

I'd love for a PMD or Ranger game on Switch. Not sure how they'd work out the Ranger mechanics while docked but there must be a way.

Never tried the ranger games, but all my friends really like them so i guess it's most be good.

 

[SodiumChloride]

Sun/Moon and LGPE's logos both showed up only a day before announcement so... I don't know that it's something that they can really time.

That's because let's go's logos were leaked by leakers and not by trademarks. What really happened is that domains leaked a few days after the game was leaked by pixelpar
But I feel like TPCI will hold a tighter leash on leakers and will wait to trademark the games after the games are announced
The domains however, would be out in the wild probably a few days or hours before hand
But I doubt anyone would be able to guess them
If someone does find them, it would probably be the result of putting in names over and over again until they guess the right one

 

[Scruffyjay]

Well, I enjoyed all of the PMD games and Pokemon Ranger games but all of the rest of the spinoffs were pretty lackluster tbh

I always loved conquest the most. The gameplay was pretty top notch. Wish it could've gotten a sequel.

 

[Zachie]

I always loved conquest the most. The gameplay was pretty top notch. Wish it could've gotten a sequel.

I didn't play Conquest a lot, I was never very good at those kinds of games.