Today is the day Pokemon fans have been waiting for, with Pokémon Sun and Moon launching in North America on Nintendo 3DS (while Japan and Europe have to wait until next week). However, there's news of another Pokemon game in development.
However, this one is heading to the Nintendo Switch.
Eurogamer has reported that multiple sources have confirmed Nintendo is planning to release a Pokémon game for the Nintendo Switch before the end of 2017. If true, it will class as the first mainline Pokémon game to ever see a release on a home console.
The new game carries the codename Pokémon Stars and has Game Freak as the designated developer—the developer behind the majority of Pokémon games since Red and Green launched in 1996. Game Freak also handled Sun and Moon development and this is significant because Pokémon Stars is thought to be the third game of this generation's Pokémon releases.
Nintendo typically releases two new Pokémon games at the same time and then follows up with a third game a couple of years later offering an enhanced version of the previous two games (for example, Pokémon Yellow, Crystal, Emerald, and Platinum are all enhanced version releases). Pokémon Stars will form the enhanced version of Pokémon Sun and Moon, but on a separate platform (also a first).
We will be kept waiting until January 12 to learn the launch line-up of Nintendo Switch games. However, rumours suggest The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild won't be one of them due to localisation taking longer than planned. Zelda should appear later in 2017, and if it is closely follows Nintendo's first home console mainline Pokémon game, the Nintendo Switch could have a bumper holiday season next year.
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