Pokémon RPG Release Date Has Changed From "Second Half" Of 2019 To "Late 2019"

Late 2019 = November / December 2019.

This is not surprising considering mainline Pokemon games tend to release November-December. And it's still technically 2nd half of 2019.

I suggest updating the article to reflect release history of the core games for readers' information

I hope Nintendo has games other than Fire Emblem planned to fill the early 2019 void.

We been knew. I'll be brave and say October.

Like anyone actually expected it before October 2019 anyways.

Its funny how pokemon games have been released often around my birthday... but its my least favorite Nintendo series by far

Late 2019 is still in the second half of 2019, so not much new there

That's usually the time they release Pokemon games. Nothing surprising

@Mogster

I'd prefer Fire Emblem delayed because what I saw during E3 was FAR from acceptable technically speaking.

You know after Xenoblade 2 unpolished, Mario Tennis Aces unpolished, I prefer to have the game complete and polished.
Really, I'm tired of those games never clean from the start anymore.

Maybe it will be eventually pushed to 2020. More room for good monster catching games to sell in absence of proper Pokemon.

I was figuring on a November release, anyway. I hope it fulfills every wish for folks waiting on it. Given the mouth-frothing that Let's Go has triggered for some, let's hope this includes some new features for 'hardcore' fans such as:
-Random encounters every 3 steps
-10,000 Exp required between levels
-Only allowed to fight gyms on Tuesdays
-Carrying more than 20 total items makes you over encumbered
-Frequent use of potions or repels can poison your party

I was expecting November anyway so this doesn't matter to me.

Of course it's last quarter. It nearly always is and they'll want to sell units around holiday next year, especially since a lot of core Pokemon fans might skip Let's Go.

From what its safe to assume, Pokemon will be delayed to add in a dark story line and a tragic romantic relationship between the main boy and girl Pokemon trainer characters.

"Late 2019"? Never would have guessed at all.

@HobbitGamer: Plus, not playing the game for a few hours paralyzes your whole party, changing tactics mid-battle causes confusion, and some gyms must be battled at the stroke of 3 AM in-game while your lead Pokemon is dressed in a hard-to-get event-only tutu.

Also, random encounters go up to every step in caves, deserts, and when surfing.

@Zuljaras I'll be sadder than I should admit if Zelda (and Ni No Kuni 2) is the one giving me the presentation I've always dreamt of for Pokemon but the series I love most would stick to upgraded 3DS assets. Let's Go has me very scared.

@ReaderRagfish @Tyranexx Yes, how could I forget those new features?! Did you also see that traded Pokemon can only use Flail in battle for the first 72 hours, due to depression?
Also, if a party member is KO'd they lose 3 levels, and max stat potential is stunted.

@Zyph Quite frankly, it's not even a technicality. Under both a regular year and Nintendo's own business year it would fall into the second half of the year (since their year end is the end of March.

Still 2019 (hopefully) so not bad.

@ReaderRagfish When a trainer's license is revoked, players can experience a new story mode as a Team Rocket member, and choose from a wide array of 20 Pokemon.

@HobbitGamer @Tyranexx @ReaderRagfish

The best part about these new games? The sheer number of fans complaining that the series didn’t do exactly everything they wanted it to do! Pokémon is dooooooooomed!!

Duh. The last games that released outside of holidays were Black/White and Black/White 2, in the west and Japan respectively. From X/Y onwards, they've all been released simultaneously in holidays.

@ReaderRagfish @MH4 @Tyranexx I don't know about you folks, but all these new features really make me excited to cut myself off from responsibilities such as work, friends & family, simple hygiene, and proper nourishment. I can't wait to relive the glory days of being punichsed by a video game for having the audacity to press the power button.

Dang. I wish this game would hurry up!

@Cobalt I agree on FE. Looks far from acceptable, almost as dated as the Wii games. But Nintendo doesn't really have any decent looking games atm.

@Mogster said :" But Nintendo doesn't really have any decent looking games atm."

Not true ! They have Mariokart 8, Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, Bayonetta 2 etc... OH WAIT...

@HobbitGamer What would these new titles be called? They need a name befitting of the hardcore fans that so begged for this glorious pair of titles.

Pokemon 2019 will be released in November 2019.

In my mind, I peg Pokemon games to come out either in October or November ever since they started releasing them same day worldwide.

This is going to be their christmas blockbuster.

@ReaderRagfish still hoping to see an evolution (or mega evolution) of Dunsparce. Love that little Pokémon. Always felt like it was destined for something more.

@MH4 Pokemon: Sorrow & Pokemon: Malfeasance

Pokemon: S&M will be like a finely crafted loveletter to the true, loyal, hardcore fans of the series. That is, the fans that shun every title that is not mainstream. Fans picking up the game at Pokemon Centers and Nintendoworld will receive Joy-Con wrist straps with small morning stars on them, to tap their hands with along to the 17-minute opening song.

@MH4 LOL. Sarcasm aside, my money is on Pokemon Yin and Pokemon Yang. Considering its on the Switch and how much the Switch logo looks like the Yin/Yang symbol.

@HobbitGamer Or that too, lol

@UmbreonsPapa That’s actually not a bad idea!

@HobbitGamer Did you make them have the same shortened name as Sun and Moon (S&M) on purpose?? 😂

Edit: And we can’t forget the 3rd version, Pokémon Insanity.

It makes a lot of sense for them to target the holiday season with these games.

So it’s the tent-pole December release in time for Christmas?

@ReaderRagfish And Swift will be nerfed to 2.33 damage.

It will be in late November. They want that Black Friday cash.

@MH4 Nah, I was going for a play on sadomasochism. With Insanity, gen 8 will be playable through PokemonISM

@Anti-Matter The investors are gonna go bananas!!!!!!!!

@ReaderRagfish I'd rather games not go out of their way to thwart any chance of a busy adult sitting down with them and making actual progress. Challenge is find, punishing is a waste. This is also a series made for children. There are other JRPGs out there for challenge lovers, such as SMT and Persona.

I feel like that will be the holiday game next year. It's kinda an easy sell.

EDIT: My browser ate this comment so I sorta posted the same thing twice. Cleaning house...

Just say Holiday 2019 and leave it at that. This is going to sell systems so why not put it at boom time?

@HobbitGamer Is it bad I kinda want to see a game as a team rocket member? I had an idea for the next Pokémon games where in one version you play as a normal trainer, and the other as a team rocket grunt. Both games would offer two sides of the same story, giving people more of an incentive to buy them both.

I know a lot of people are hoping for Gen 8 to be similar to BotW, but to be realistic with how Game Freak has acted in the past, that isn’t likely at all. Pokemon Gen 8 is going to be larger than the 3DS games, similar to how XY’s Kalos was advertised as a gigantic region, except it won’t be anything ground breaking, and neither will the gameplay for that matter.

Similar to how the DS and 3DS generations worked out, I believe Gen 9 is going to be more akin to BotW, although not as much as many of you may hope.

@AxeltheBuizel It would have been neat, yeah. But you'd only be allowed to have Persians, Weezings, Muks, and Raticates. Oh, and you'd automatically have to lose most of your battles. To get the true Team Rocket experience, you see.

@-Juice- Yeah, in case you misread our intentions; myself, @ReaderRagfish, @Tyranexx, & @MH4 are all speaking of a parody scenario. Yesterday (and every time) some folks got outraged in the comment section of a Pokemon: Let's Go article, stating things like "RPGs are ruined!" or "This is destroying the vision of Pokemon", etc. A few users in particular really were upset that others would even dream of having a differing opinion, and held the belief that an easy-going Pokemon experience would not only ensure that The South Would Rise Again, but that the Third Reich would envelop video games in chaos forever. I'm slightly exaggerating, but it was pretty spectacular. So I thought we should all have a better, light hearted laugh today on how ridiculously difficult such a "hardcore" Pokemon game could be! Feel free to join in!

Also, I agree that the more games available that allow parents to share an experience with their child, the better. Video games are first and foremost about experiencing enjoyment, and why wouldn't you want to share that with folks in your life in a way that they can join?

@HobbitGamer Amen to all of this!!

So it'll be out shortly before Christmas. No suprise there then.

Can't wait though.

NL does have this knack of trying to convince us that the boat only has a little hole in it and everything will be OK.

Nintendo has a knack of pushing release dates back. Announce the games with a reasonable release date, then push them back.

It's going to be the Smash Bros Ultimate release game for 2019 basically. The further away the better I see. I want these new PKMN games to be hard and fun like Pokemon Black and Pokemon White was. New Pokemon with no access to past gene Pokemon until post game. Of course there should be Switch exclusive features like the dual screen thing they are doing with Super Mario Party.

E3 2019 announcement for this game should be awesome...as long as there are NO LEAKS!!!!!!!! Or....maybe there will be a short Pokemon Direct for it's announcement like they did for Pokemon X & Pokemon Y. That was an amazing reveal! I still have the feels of the excitement back then.

As expected.

It's gonna be October/November, like they always are aren't they?

Anybody here know what the 1.8 update to mario + rabbids did?

@Zuljaras "They better make is exceptional. And by that I mean Pokémon made in BotW world style NOT like Let's Go style."

An open world non-linear Pokemon game? Yes please!

@Mountain_Man I'd settle for more solitude on my pokemon adventure. Sun and Moon's helicopter professor and ultra-supervised adventure were very off-putting for me.

@ReaderRagfish @HobbitGamer @MH4: I'm finally caught up on all the comments (very late lunch) and am dying. XD Thanks for the entertainment!

@AxeltheBuizel: I'd love to see a game where you're part of the villainous team as well. I liked a suggestion that I saw above where one version could be your generic "kid hero" version, and the other could be the anti-hero/villain version of the same events.

@Tyranexx I’ll be here all week! 😉

I'm completely OK with this as long as the RPG isn't going to release later because of Let's Go. That game was a bit of a waste of time, to be honest.

Meh, not buying a remake of yellow with lame pokemon go features. Pokemon go was a success because it's free, this one's gonna flop big time.

Mainline Pokemon games have been released toward the end of the year for as long as I can remember, so I didn't expect anything other than late 2019. It's just a shame that instead of something at least decent to fill us in this year we got LGP/E. =/

@Ryu_Niiyama I think your comment is one of the more logical ones in this thread.

November. It will be November.

I highly doubt the next pokemon will even release next year. I suspect Nintendo only announced the game in order to damage control a negative reaction to pokemon lets go simply because the hype that had been building around the rumors of a core pokemon game release building both before and after Switches launch. I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo is planning to release the next core pokemon simultaneously on the switch and new 3ds successor. Regardless, Nintendo was so secretive with the switch that I doubt the next entry had even started development until after ultra sun and moon was announced.

I bet this upcoming pokemon game gonna be like Colosseum type, but way better cause the switch obviously is more powerful compared to the Gamecube.

@Linked2thaPast The problem with that logic is that it was at E3 2017 where the "core Pokemon RPG title" was announced to be in development, and that was long before LGP/E were even leaked.

Nevertheless, we've never (in my memory) had a new mainline Pokemon game teased to us like this. In the past we've gotten the game titles/logos shown earlier in the year with the games releasing later that year. Whatever GF's reasons were for announcing the development of the 2019 titles early, I'm sure we'll see the regularly scheduled news begin early next year.

Just what we already know, nothing new. It's going to release November 2019 - likely between November 15th and November 29th. All but confirmed basically.

So Pokemon will be the big game
If Metroid Prime 4 release in 2019, I'm sad to see that it will not be treated as a big game. I know Metroid doesnt sale as well as Pokemon, but I just wanted Nintendo to push the franchise further. We shall see, maybe we will get it in 2020

I'll laugh my ass of if this also turns out to be a casual affair. But we'll see.

yes i am willing to hold out

"Pokemon RPG" ???

how it this supposed to differ from most of the other Pokemon games, they effectively are RPG's with the added function of trading and battling other players,

so what is the company adding/taking to make it a more pure "RPG" ???

@LightBeam
Numbers wise, true Pokemon will outsell Metroid, but only because it has a broader fan base, Metroid Prime games play to a more specific "FPS" fan base, but I think percentage wise, Metroid will stay on par with Pokemon, even if they are released in the same month, because of their difference