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Pokemon Pokopia launches March 5, 2026 (www.gematsu.com)

submitted 1 month ago by slimerancher@lemmy.world to c/nintendo@lemmy.world

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Pokemon Pokopia will launch for Switch 2 on March 5, 2026 for $69.99, The Pokemon Company and developers Game Freak and Koei Tecmo announced.

Digital pre-orders are available now via Nintendo eShop. Physical edition pre-orders will begin on November 13 in Japan.

The physical edition will ship on a game-key card worldwide, as revealed by a new video about game-key cards (English, Japanese) released today by Nintendo.

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[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I haven't watched the Game key card video but very disappointing that game isn't fully on cart.

Nintendo is pretty good about their first party stuff, why do they don't go for same level of polish and quality for Pokémon stuff?

[–] TAG@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Pokemon is not a first party title, so it does not have to follow first party title rules.

Game Freak is a third party studio. Apparently their next game is going to Xbox, PlayStation, and Windows but not the Switch.

The Pokemon IP is jointly owned by Game Freak, Nintendo, and Creatures Inc. Nintendo probably has the majority vote in that arrangement, but they still need to act in the best interest of all shareholders.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 points 1 month ago

Game Freak is a third party studio. Apparently their next game is going to Xbox, PlayStation, and Windows but not the Switch.

Not the first time it happens too.

They made a seemingly simple 2D cartoon-style game called Tembo the badass elephant that could probably run on anything, and didn't port it on either Wii U (not surprising) or 3DS (a bit more surprising).

The way they framed that was hilarious (and obviously, a lie). They said they were making the promotional art, with the title card, they added platform logos, XBox One, PS4, Steam... and it looked good like this so they decided, yeah, let's stop there.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, this jointly owned stuff should be the reason. I should look up some more info about how this all internally works.