>>57233889
already annouced her for the switched

>her

>>57233894
OP is probably a pokemon fan so he has a hard time understanding announcements.

>>57233889
It will be in neither. It is cancelled.

>>57233924
>it

>>57233924
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Do you fuckers just not pay attention when they talk about their video games? They confirmed it as a Switch game last year when they announced it.

>>57234005
yep, for instance: zelda BoTW was announced as a wii u title. Was it released on any other console? no. So you're all retards who don't know how anything works. If the game was going to come out on the switch 2, they would have simply broken company secrets and leaked the existence of a console that nobody was supposed to know existed in a public reveal trailer. morons.

>>57233903
I mean, the smart thing to do with pokemon is completely ignore hype(marketing), announcements(marketing) and leaks(marketing) until the game releases.

>>57234019
How do you know that a game releases and when?
>>57234005
Chill, people are still trying to understand an announcement made in 2019.

>>57234005
Switch is a brand not a specific system

>>57234015
Furukawa announced backwards compatibility, the list of games not supported are all ones that require the IR functions on the right joy-con which Game Freak never bothered with and Nintendo use Pokémon to supplement their own game releases, rather than be the face of their offerings by having them as a launch title ever.
If you haven't already saved for your Switch2, best start now and just buy it on launch. You'll be waiting until Gen 10 next year before Game Freak release a dedicated title for the system, because they don't get used as launch year titles. Nintendo order them for when the kiddy revision console launches (DS Lite, 2DS, Switch Lite)
If only you had paid attention to what Nintendo did prior to 2015 and after Game Freak had announced L: Z-A. 'Course, if you weren't poor and had expected a new system announcement to the point of collecting money to buy it, we wouldn't be here. Alas, retards gonna retard, then cry when people point at the retards and laugh.

>>57234027
People are still trying to figure out why Game Freak still aim their games at children, despite 20 years first-hand experience of the market conditions. Don't expect me to cater to fuckwits.

>>57234132
you can't use game freak's past behavior to predict this situation when we have an unprecedented year-long gap in releases from them. What else could they be doing if not making an enhanced version of Z-A for the new console

>>57234143
I can and I will because I've lived three gap years in 30 years almost. One every 10 years roughly. I was half expecting last year to be a gap year when they announced L: Z-A for this year and knew it to be one when May/June passed with no reveal (mid-Gen games USUALLY get revealed in mid-year ORAS, USM, LGPE). So with no reveal and better yet, no system revealed to announce games for (because no third party or Nintendo title has been officially announced for Switch2, despite gaming insiders being quoted as saying they're excited to see the new games launching all listing Switch2 versions and Nintendo showing off a potential MK9 in the Switch2 trailer as well as a new Mario guaranteed to appear likely in launch year), Game Freak kept to the plan and announced the game for the old system, knowing full well early adopters of the new system could also play it on the new system as Nintendo went into development aiming to keep as many of the 146m Switch owners on the ecosystem.

>>57234137
Because they are holding onto tradition

>>57234203
No, it's because kids grew it to be the highest-grossing IP in the world ever. It doesn't get as big, pervasive or as diversified without it (GO became a thing due to Google doing a crossover event and Game Freak being astounded by the interaction but GO is ultimately a method of monetising adults the way the plushies, cards, toys and other crap they pitch at children monetises them for the franchise). It won't sustain its growth or audience without them, because there's adults having kids and introducing them to the universe, to share the joy they found as kids with them.

>>57233889
ZA is almost certainly releasing in the first half of this year to avoid competing with the Switch 2's launch

>>57234291
Other way around sweatypants. Switch2 will be early in the year, L: Z-A launches during Game Freak's traditional holiday window.
Swith2's been ready to go for a year, Nintendo stalled it to build up supplies, so they wouldn't get fucked on manufacturing and transit costs again, like they were hit with them in 2017 as they went with a more limited first gen run. At this stage, it's coming sooner rather than end of the year (remember, a third party accessory manufacturer stated their Switch2 accessories will go on sale April 28th. Those kinds of sellers generally don't release shit prior to console releases, as who's gonna buy a third party controller for a system that hasn't released?).

>>57234191
>they will never take a gap year because muh pattern
>they will make fuecoco evolve into a snake because muh pattern
>they will make pokemon gun because muh pattern
>they will make pokemon stars because muh pattern
>they will never make a legendary evolve because muh pattern
>they will make pokemon Z because muh pattern
>they will never add a 4th evolution state because muh pattern
>they will never add a new type because muh pattern
>they will add a second region to the gba games because muh pattern
I used to think humanity's greatest asset was our ability to learn from mistakes

>>57234398
Don't kid yourself son, they still run off patterns. But their patternfaggotry only goes as far as makes economic sense (cutting a rehash to focus on getting a new Gen finished instead of trying to force a Z version in 2013, making a paired rehash twice to pretty up the trope before ultimately killing it as unfeasible). The rest is all just headcanon and delusion thought by children and immature adults who assumed Pokémon was theirs to own instead of rent.

>>57234417
>when I point out patterns then they're running on patterns
>when other people point out the myriad patterns they've broken they're still running on patterns because I say so and any patterns my dissenters believed in come not from the same pattern recognition and observation I use as a foundation from my conclusions but because they are delusional children
holy cope!

It's kind of interesting how pokefags are always against upgrading consoles. You don't see that with tendies at all.

>>57234338
>Switch2 will be early in the year
The "Nintendo Switch 2 Experience tour" goes through April, it's launching in May at the absolute earliest, I would bet closer to June
ZA won't be properly showcased until Pokémon Day at the end of February, so I'm expecting it to launch in March
I don't expect it to take the November slot, that would be a gap of three full years between major Pokémon games which is unprecedented. I don't think they would have teased it last year if it was that far out from release. ZA in the spring bridges the gap into Gen 10 next year (and other minor games could launch on the Switch 2 in the meantime).

>>57233903
Well he's posting on /vp/, so he probably has a hard time understanding a lot of things.

>>57233889
I already has been announced as a Switch 1 game.
What worries me is that considering how backwards compatibility has worked with Nintendo historically, Switch 1 games' performance being played on the Switch 2 will be capped to the Switch 1 specs. And we all know ZA's going to run like dogshit.

>>57234498
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>>57234498
That's what I've been saying. They have to make ZA for the switch and it's just going to have visual upgrades on switch 2 and from what we know about GF's production schedule they are probably being rushed to the absolute max to make an optimized switch 2 version. I'm doubting it'll look much better on switch 2 overall. We will have to see if performance is any better. Wouldn't be surpised if GF got a third party studio to optimize ZA for switch 2.

>>57234476
"Through April" does not mean "the entirety of April" and not when it could all be winding up to launch on the 28th (course, that could be the third party accessory embargo and the system and console, including Nintendo-approved official accessories go on sale the week prior).
They CAN use the "Nintendo Switch2 Experience Tour" as a launchpad to drive launch sales in April too, you know. And given the thing's been ready to go for a GOOD while at this stage and Nintendo delayed to build stock reserves, rather than to spit'n'polish the casings points to them keeping a shorter release window while still ultimately adhering to their statement it wouldn't happen before end of FY '24 (end of this March, FYI). Direct on the 2nd April, the closest thing to a major shadowdrop by announcing an end of the month launch. Tour still goes ahead as-planned, only everyone drops the pretence of it being a showcase and ends up being an utter marketing tactic.

>>57234542
>they are probably being rushed to the absolute max to make an optimized switch 2 version
lol, I highly doubt that.
Not to be a patternfag like >>57234398 is talking about, but in general GameFreak doesn't give a shit about hardware releases, they generally wait until a console has a big enough userbase so they can maximize profit. They never make launch titles.
>B2W2 released for the DS 1.5~ years after the 3DS launched
>XY released 2.5~ years after the 3DS launched
>LGPE (first mainline on Switch) released almost 2 years after the Switch released
They are not going to give a shit about a Switch 2 version because the Switch 1 version they're working on will just werk on the new system. If the Switch 2 wasn't backwards compatible, then MAYBE they'd work on separate versions (think of BotW that had Wii U and Switch versions), this this is not the case.

>>57234604
Nintendo order the games anon. They are not going to allow Game Freak to NOT support their new flashy console and doubly so when they likely have the system revision/kid friendly Switch2 Lite model in development for launch in '26 (They usually take two years between releases, but Switch2 was supposed to go last year per all accounts up until mid-june last year. And last year to '26 is two years, machine wouldn't have stopped, just because they delayed release).

>>57234632
>Nintendo is not going to allow Game Freak to NOT support their new flashy console
I just gave you an example when the opposite happened. If you look at GF's track record of them being barely able to support a single system, it's just wishful thinking on your behalf if you think they'll magically be capable of supporting two.
Although I wish you were right.

>>57234671
Who said anything about supporting Switch, you glue-huffing little monkey? They dropped DS when they went to 3DS, why do you think they'll stay on Switch AND work on Switch2? Again, Nintendo PAY them to develop games to push their newest system, they killed Switch when they affirmed there was a successor, they just cratered what value was left today with the reveal video and statement there's a Direct focused on it happening in April. Gen 10 will ultimately be a Switch2 exclusive, because Nintendo want to get the kiddies buying the NEWEST console, to then push the rest their newest game offerings on the wee cunts as they age along into their teens and older, as well as get every adult they can to transfer their lives from one system to the next and Pokémon does that better than any IP they wholly own. Pokémon doubles the weekly sales of systems every time it launches, even shitty port remakes like BDSP still drive sales into the 6-figure weekly totals. Why the everliving fuck do you think Nintendo don't want them to use that power to push the new system? Hanging around the retards here or the ones on discord too long?

>nintendo gears up to reveal a brand new console with a considerable hardware upgrade
>game freak take an unprecedented gap year so that the release of a game in a subseries criticized for its poor performance and lackluster graphics matches with the release year of the aforementioned console
>retards on /vp/ will still swear up and down that these two events are completely unrelated

>>57234736
>They dropped DS when they went to 3DS
but they didn't drop the DS when the 3DS dropped, that's the point. Look up the release date of the 3DS and the release date of Black and White 2

>>57234767
Sorry, I must have missed XY for DS then. Oh no, I didn't, as soon as Game Freak made a game for the new system, they stopped making them for the old one, yeah. Meaning when Gen 10 debuts as a Switch2 exclusive, they're not going to bother pitching at poor fuckers who are waiting for end-of-lifecycle to pick up a cheap unit with a Switch1 version.

>>57234767
Just like they announcing a game for Switch, that could be also played on the new system (a lá BW2 for DS and also able to be played on 3DS). but leaks, particularly ones from a leaker more intelligent than the usual Pokémon leaker who understands leaking any new info WILL get his arse chased down by TPC, aren't eventualities and it's just as likely the gap year was dedicated to porting what they'd built for Switch into a Switch2-0exclusive build.
Glory of betawork, it does not always reflect the finished product.

>>57234015
BOTW came out on the wiiu you dumb fucking bitch

>>57233889
I hope it’s only on the switch 2 so it looks a little less shit

>>57234015
Botw was released on the switch & Wii u tard

>>57233889
stop being poor