A Brand New Pokemon Game on Switch
Of course, better than any remake or re-release is a brand new Pokemon experience for Nintendo Switch. Many of the heavy hitters of Nintendo are all on their way, with Breath of the Wild already released, Splatoon 2 this Summer, and Mario Odyssey for the holiday. Besides Mario and Zelda, you can’t get bigger than the Pokemon series, and a brand new 3D entry has the potential to really move some console units.
We’ve never actually gotten a mainline Pokemon game on a home console, as they’ve all been released on the various Game Boy iterations so far. Of course, there have been plenty of spin-offs like Pokemon Stadium and Colosseum. With a brand new Switch entry it’d be great to see a new 3D game like Colosseum and Gale of Darkness, that introduces some unique mechanics or ideas to the series. Of course, it might also be fun to see a lavishly rendered HD Pokemon world, with more intricacy than we’ve even had up until now.
Last year, The Pokemon Company’s CEO Sunekazu Ishihara helped suggest that the Switch, then called the NX, would be a hybrid console. He also pledged that the company would be making games for the new system, and other reports said that a Pokemon game would be on the Switch within at least half a year of the system releasing.
While revisiting old games and ideas can be great for both Nintendo and the Switch, it’s ultimately new experiences that are going to keep driving the new console forward.
Feel free to chime in down in the comments below, and let us know what you hope to see from tomorrow’s direct.
