Pokkén Tournament Dated For 16th July in Japanese Arcades, as Charizard and Weavile Are Revealed

Just give it awhile in the arcade, THEN we'll get the console port.

They need to get interested gamers INTO the arcades after all... ;P

Great, looking forward to the Wii U release in July 2016. TTT2 took a year, why not this too.

I hope this is announced for Wii U in the next Nintendo Direct.

Again, I don't care unless this comes to consoles. Arcades don't exist in the U.S for the most part.

NX launch title guys calling it right now. (I'll rather have it on the NX then the Wiiu)

"Still dreaming of a console port..."

Chill out lmao. Fighters like these always drop in arcades first for a while before going to consoles. Just give it time.

I've always been pretty confident that it'll have a console port eventually, so I'm not worried. With that out of the way, when are they going to add Bidoof?!

If the rumours are true then it may be a launch title for the NX (the rumours about NX releasing in 2016)

It'll be coming to NX, no doubt about it.

Now, I am not normally pessimistic, but(lol), football has more chance of coming home than this game does

To clarify. What normally happens with this type of situation and Nintendo is that we get a similar home version that will annoyingly miss one of the arcade characters for absolutely no reason and leave fans of the game for the next 12 years saying "Why don't you release that character, you have already done the work." If it does come home, there will be something to moan about lol.

Not sure why you're all so confident it'll come to Wii U/NX when the vast majority of arcade games over there never even see the light of day in the west. Heck, I'm still waiting on that one dragon ball Z arcade game to come over. What makes this so different?

Nice on adding Weaving though. Now just gimme Sableye and I'll chuck my money at this thing if I ever get to visit Japan.

@TwilightAngel I'd rather have it on Wii U seeing as I have one currently.

Is every comment going to be about a console port and not about the game itself?

@Jazzer94 Me too, I'd have it rather on the console that I already have

they should put Jigglypuff and Greninja in, and then make Pokkén amiibo that are cross-compatible with Smash amiibo.

@Nintendo_Ninja We do have arcades in the U.S. Maybe not every state, but they definitely exist.

They said they want to see if the game can succeed in the cutthroat arcade arena to prove itself worthy before coming to consoles.

I have no doubt this game will succeed beyond measure.

Zoroark, Greninja and Mewtwo when?

@JaxonH "They said they want to see if the game can succeed in the cutthroat arcade arena to prove itself worthy before coming to consoles." When did they say this?

@TwilightAngel

I was obviously paraphrasing but you'll get the gist of it in this article here

http://attackofthefanboy.com/news/reason-pokken-tournament-releasing-arcades-first/

Even if this did end up being ported to consoles I wouldn't get it. Smash Bros gives me plenty of Pokemon to fight as, and to be honest it is the only fighting I have ever truly enjoyed. A release on consoles would be nice for major Pokemon fans though!

Charizard was pretty expected but Weavile is a nice surprise. The Pokemon choices and move sets for Pokken Tournament seem to trump Smash in every way.

Also these 2 trailers seem to showcase combos much more than the trailers for the previous Pokmeon. I hope in the final build of the game all the Pokemon can combo like Weavile and Charizard can in their trailers.

Ugh, that's cool and all but CONFIRM GRENINJA ALREADY DAMMIT.

@Rhydas

Probably because in this case, Nintendo owns the IP? There's very few Pokemon games we haven't gotten over here and tbh, the majority of it was stuff best left in Japan. Porting it would be the most no brain-er way to add another big title to the Wii U/NX's schedule with development as slow as is. I'm pretty sure that's mostly the reason we've been seeing normally Japan exclusive titles like Fatal Frame and Tomodachi Life lately. I'm pretty confident we'll get this unless it bombs hard at the arcades.

Plz come to the Wii U... ;_; There actually is a Tekken game for the Wii U already, so...

I fully get the arcade cabinet before the game. Aracde games build hype for home console versions. How many people are sitting around playing on their Wii U/PS4/X1 saying - I can't wait until we get an arcade port of this?

That said, this really should come to Wii U someday. Or NX. If Nitneod isn't going to use Pokemon to sell home consoles, then they should get out of the home console business.

I'm actually waiting impatiently for the arcade release - but mainly because I want balancing feedback. I need balancing info before I bother with this game any further, mostly because I'm not even slightly interested in a Pokémon fighter at all when the only Pokémon part about it is the combatants and literally nothing else.
From what I've seen so far, it's flat-out obnoxiously spam-heavy, with a sickening similarity to the Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm games, which were broken to the point of making multiplayer unbearable.
I took good advice so far to never trust NamcoBandai with fighters, and this game is giving me the impression that they're worse at it than I gave them credit for...

@GeminiSaint Not to mention Deoxys and Sceptile!

I'm getting a bit concerned.

This game's arcade release is not even a couple of weeks from now, and there are still only eight confirmed fighters to my knowledge (These two, Pikachu, Machamp, Lucario, Gengar, Suicune, and Gardevoir). That is simply not a lot of content. If I remember correctly, the original Arcade-Only version of had over 30 playable characters.

A Wii U version would either need a lot more content or have to be a budget release to justify its anemic content.

I betting Weavile will eventually become my main, got to main my favorite pokemon.

Really? That close? Well that was fast. To bad it's only in Japan...then again, I'd probably suck, so...

Charizard looks like how Ridley should function in smash.

@Salnax
Wasn't Blaziken in the original teaser trailer with Lucario?

I'd like to see a trailer of just straight gameplay of a few matches. That always means more to me than a bunch of fast cuts and highlights.

@burninmylight There is gameplay footage in youtube, I think it´s a japanese game show where this originates, it´s of a match between pikachu and gardevoir. The game looks amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf4G54xSgno

Pokken Tournament is gonna be so awesome! ...Too bad it's only confirmed for Japan at the moment.

There is only one thing to say about this:

@TwilightAngel oh I was just about to call it. But you said it first. I totally agree. If Nintendo launched NX with this game and another strong game or two I think NX would sell like hot cakes!