Pokémon Café Mix Will Launch Earlier Than Expected, Only Supports Handheld Mode

Mobile ones still pre order for 25th, but still looking forward to this game. I wonder if we can connect our Nintendo network and go between mobile and switch.

This game being only in handheld mode I guess makes up for Animal Crossing New Horizons, a game w/ a ton of inventory management, only being played w/ the Joycon, no touchscreen support whatsoever. Which still boggles my mind that I can't touch things either in my pockets or home inventory and move or use them. Nintendo made the Switch and the game, no excuse for no touch screen support.

I probably was going to play this a little, but I'm really not playing it now, Switch only leaves the dock for Labo VR. One of the nice things about the Labo vehicle kit is it seems like a game that was meant to be played in the dock, Labo are just controllers.

Edit: While I haven't tried it yet I was informed by @EmmatheBest that you can use the touchscreen to "type' in ACNH. I very rarely type anything, so it probably never came up that day I tried. Makes it even stupider if you ask me, I can touch letters but not inventory, but I do stand corrected.

I don't want to download it, Pokémon Shuffle was such a waste of time for me and I erased it eventually. This one looks even more chaotic.

@rjejr I don't have New Horizons but that's a shame, New Leaf lets you use the touch screen.

I'll just get it in mobile, it looks like it's clearly made for mobile anyway.

Kinda expected to be touchscreen, looks like it would have been hard with Any controller.

@BlueOcean I liked pokemon shuffle, I still have it on my mobile, wouldn’t mind it on switch but would be hard lol

@Hunt3r_Cr0wl3y Yes, I liked it too but it becomes very chaotic on the later levels like you really need to stock up and toss all the powerups. It's one of my most played 3DS games but I gave it up eventually.

@BlueOcean As the rest of my post stated I never game in handheld, so it doesn't bother me personally too much, but 1 day this guy CJ shows up to buy my fish, and I have over 600 fish in storage just waiting for him. So I think, I'll play in handheld, will be so much quicker to just tap tap tap everything in my storage to move to my pockets and everything in my pockets to sell to the guy. So I take the Switch onto my deck and no touches of the screen will register in the game. A game made by Nintendo for a console made by Nintendo. If it was an EA game Id' be like, well whatever, it's EA, but why a Nintendo game wont' let me touch the screen to sell 600 fish to CJ is just beyond me, it boggles the mind.

So, less of a shame, more of a "how did this game even release like this?" The Switch Lite doesn't even have a dock, wouldn't most of those playing want to use the touchscreen for inventory management? Or to plant a glower or dig up a fossil. Makes no sense.

Looking forward to this.
An interesting look and if the gameplay mechanics are decent then looks like a good time filler while the Mrs. watches something I have 0 interest in on TV! 👍🏻😉

I think I am going to get the mobile version, because that is probably the only way I will play the game since I have so many good options on Nintendo Switch that I am currently playing.

@Hunt3r_Cr0wl3y You'll most likely be able to link them to your Nintendo account, but I don't think there will be any cross-play involved, similar to how you can't do it with Pokemon Quest. Which is too bad, because having cross-play probably would make me give both this game and Pokemon Quest more of a chance.

@rjejr Indeed. I only have the Switch Lite and it would drive me nuts because I use the touch screen when I play New Leaf. I'm glad I didn't buy New Horizons.

I'm sure I read this only supports touchscreen controls. It couldn't be more of a smartphone game! 😁

Not into Pokemon but like the look of this.Having said that I've recently started getting REALLY bad drift in my controllers so I'm sure the game will play itself..

....Really wished they would use IR controls...sure it's not the best way, but it still works just fine. World of Goo/Little Inferno did it. :/

@rjejr That's a lie, anything involving typing uses the touch screen.

I cannot wait to digest this game
e v e..possibly later today lol.

Can we please get less Pokemon mobile games and more spin-offs like we used to? We've gotten more subpar mobile games in the past 5 years than spin-offs.

It was always listed as June 23rd here in the U.S..

@EmmatheBest Typing? Like when you give someone a greeting or send them a letter in the mail?

Didn't know that. Guess when I was playing nobody asked me to type anything. Though I also never play online. Is there a lot of typing back and forth when you play online?

Now I need to go back and check later. Thanks for the heads up. Still, I stand by most of my original post, I've played that game for 320 hours - checked my Switch yesterday - and I've spent probably less than 1% of my time typing, but probably about 10% in my inventory, I organize a lot. And I sell a lot. And I give stuff to my villagers a lot. And I move stuff around in my house alot.

I'll go back and edit my original post. Typing, who knew.

@rjejr - Yeah, whenever you have to enter an amount of Bells in a menu, looking for a specific item in the catalog, or when pressing R to type out messages to others.

@BlueOcean "I'm glad I didn't buy New Horizons."

I went from -

not the least bit interested
wow that museum looks cool
pandemic lockdown you say
cart so I can trade it in when I hate it
playing 7 hours a day
wish I had bought this digital
1 hour a day
I wonder how much $ I can trade ACNH in for?

But I'll keep it, b/c I still like seeing the new stuff that pops up each month, great white sharks were cool. Looking forward to snow on the island this winter. And Christmas which they'll call something else like 'Egg Day' or whatever Easter was. "tree day"?

So I'll play it for a couple of hours each week until next spring, then I'll probably be done. At which point I will have gotten my money's worth.

@EmmatheBest Thanks again. I still think for a game made by Nintnedo it should work in the pockets though. And Crafting. And preferably home decorating. And digging. Really there's a lot of places and times it would be good to just be able to touch the screen to get what you want. Shake a tree. I think I must have over 100 fruit trees on my island, I shake a LOT of trees. I'd take a double-tap for tree shaking just to make sure.

Any chance you've ever played w/ Labo VR? Somehow, and I really have no idea how, they made a virtual button on the top of the Switch. You tap it twice and it registers. Not once, twice. And it has to be a tap, not a push or a hold. It's kinda crazy how well it works. So that they can do.

Really, there is so much in ACNH that seems like it could be better I'm ready for ACNH 2.0. That fake Direct video really highlighted some of it. Redd showing up anytime in the past 5 weeks would have been nice too. What's there works, but after 320 hours your mind imagines improvements.

@rjejr Yeah but I've gone through most of that on 3DS.