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Official Pre-Pokémon Sword & Pokémon Shield Speculation & Leaks thread

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nickdt said:
Imagine in the Alternate Universe, all the main Pokemon games are on a Home Console and they are gonna be on a handheld next.
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In that universe (red and green in snes or whatever was out at the time) Pokemon wouldn't have been as successful, a big part of Pokemon(especially back then) was being able to play and trade with your friends anywhere, can't do that on an snes since consoles didn't have internet access until (PS3/Wii/Xbox 360?)
 
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Fiscal Year Nintendo/GF: April 1st 2018 - April 1st 2019. So no, its not confirmed to be a 2018 title for us. For them, it will be a 2018 title even if it release early 2019. And with 2018 or later, they could have meant their 2018 year instead of ours, which means the later means late 2019. People need to get out of their head that the game comes in 2018, while i have said numerous times already that our 2018 is not Nintendo's/GF 2018 and thus early 2019 is just a likely as late 2018 our year. If it comes in our 2018, okay, then it comes. But don't get your hopes up to much while there are 2 possibilities.

That its even 2018 or later after the investors meeting, can be prove that the game for us comes early 2019, but they are not certain they are gonna make that.
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This isn’t true. Every other release window on the list is shown as how they were when the games were announced via direct or what not.They wouldn’t mean fiscal year only for Pokémon. 2018 or later likely just means literally 2018 or later
 
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Now that I think about it,those starter leaks from a while ago would make sense for an Africa region.
 
Stygian said:
This isn’t true. Every other release window on the list is shown as how they were when the games were announced via direct or what not.They wouldn’t mean fiscal year only for Pokémon. 2018 or later likely just means literally 2018 or later
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Thing is though: With the other games, it can also be the fiscal year.

April 1st, 2018 - March 31st, 2019: 2018 fiscal year, thus 2018 for Nintendo
April 1st, 2019 - March 30rd, 2020: 2019 fiscal year, thus 2019 for Nintendo.

So even if something is marked as 2018, it stays in the 2018 fiscal year timestamp if it releases after April 1st, else its a fiscally 2017 release.

Thats the confusing part about it.
 
nickdt said:
Thing is though: With the other games, it can also be the fiscal year.

April 1st, 2018 - March 31st, 2019: 2018 fiscal year, thus 2018 for Nintendo
April 1st, 2019 - March 30rd, 2020: 2019 fiscal year, thus 2019 for Nintendo.

So even if something is marked as 2018, it stays in the 2018 fiscal year timestamp if it releases after April 1st, else its a fiscally 2017 release.

Thats the confusing part about it.
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Again, 2018 or later means 2018 or later not this fiscal year or the next. Based on what you say Smash (listed as 2018) could be released next year in February while we know that it's a 2018 title for sure.
 
I'm waiting for the moment they announce the new game as a spring 2019 release and all the people that were on team 2019 to start gloating. As if a few months removed from late 2018 would be the biggest thing in the world. Also I've never understood the concept of 2019 meaning the game will be so much better than if it came out late this year. The idea of "the more time they spend on it the better" is flawed to such a major degree it's hard to wrap my head around it. Regardless of when it comes out the game will come out when it's ready. Acting like a 2018 release means it's rushed is automatically assuming they never planned to get it out anytime soon and they're just throwing in the towel. That's a ridiculous thought to me.

Also if you stick to the idea that the longer they work on the better then I say look at how DP turned out. It was delayed and they had longer to work on the and it still wasn't the best game. You can't use Platinum as an excuse either. That's not DP so it has nothing to do with initial argument.
 
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I'm waiting for the moment they announce the new game as a spring 2019 release and all the people that were on team 2019 to start gloating. As if a few months removed from late 2018 would be the biggest thing in the world. Also I've never understood the concept of 2019 meaning the game will be so much better than if it came out late this year. The idea of "the more time they spend on it the better" is flawed to such a major degree it's hard to wrap my head around it. Regardless of when it comes out the game will come out when it's ready. Acting like a 2018 release means it's rushed is automatically assuming they never planned to get it out anytime soon and they're just throwing in the towel. That's a ridiculous thought to me.

Also if you stick to the idea that the longer they work on the better then I say look at how DP turned out. It was delayed and they had longer to work on the and it still wasn't the best game. You can't use Platinum as an excuse either. That's not DP so it has nothing to do with initial argument.
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Same with SM. That game was in development since 2013 and yet it was rushed because of the 20th Anniversary and the Switch game.
 
Joker901 said:
Again, 2018 or later means 2018 or later not this fiscal year or the next. Based on what you say Smash (listed as 2018) could be released next year in February while we know that it's a 2018 title for sure.
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I don't think you understand what i am saying.

Smash is listed as 2018, not as 2018 or later, which means its gonna release this calender year, but also in the fiscal year of 2018 and thus that is a difference

Both FE and Pokemon are listed as 2018 or later, but people assume (Which is a wrong thing to do), that it has to mean calendaryear 2018, while i already pointed out that the fiscal year for Nintendo and Gamefreak stretches into 2019, which means for them the first three months of 2019 are still 2018, which explains the later part because for us its 2019.

There are 2 possibilities: The game releases in 2018 (Calender for us) or early 2019 (Later for us, 2018 for GF/Nintendo). Another possibility (Which i doubt is possible taking the anime in mind and then they would have changed the date during the Inverstors meeting into 2019 or TBA) is that the game releases late 2019, which makes it later for both.
 
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Looks like we have a new rumor/leak! Probably fake, but interesting nonetheless.

/vp/ - Snake Fire Starter - Pokémon - 4chan
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nickdt said:
I don't think you understand what i am saying.

Smash is listed as 2018, not as 2018 or later, which means its gonna release this calender year, but also in the fiscal year of 2018 and thus that is a difference

Both FE and Pokemon are listed as 2018 or later, but people assume (Which is a wrong thing to do), that it has to mean calendaryear 2018, while i already pointed out that the fiscal year for Nintendo and Gamefreak stretches into 2019, which means for them the first three months of 2019 are still 2018, which explains the later part because for us its 2019.

There are 2 possibilities: The game releases in 2018 (Calender for us) or early 2019 (Later for us, 2018 for GF/Nintendo). Another possibility (Which i doubt is possible taking the anime in mind and then they would have changed the date during the Inverstors meeting into 2019 or TBA) is that the game releases late 2019, which makes it later for both.
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I just popped back to this thread to see if anything of any significance had come from the investors meeting - I just want to say, please stop with this. No disrespect intended but please stop.

I sit on two boards of directors - one of an independent coffee shop and one of a property developer. Now, I know that neither are related to video games but honestly, the “2018 or later” is absolutely, unequivocally not referring to the fiscal years. “2018 or later” is referring to the calendar years of 2018 and 2019.

As an example more related to my line of work - if a contractor turned round and said to me that construction on something would be complete in 2018... let’s just say that shit would absolutely hit the fan if he had meant fiscal year and had not clarified that. The general rule is that if a year is mentioned, it is always in the context of calendar year unless otherwise stated.

I’m not entirely sure why you keep barking up this particularly tree and I’m sorry but I couldn’t continue to read it all without offering a response. Again, this is not a matter of opinion... I’m telling you for a fact that when they said “2018 or later” they were definitely not talking about the financial year.
 
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View: https://twitter.com/JoeMerrick/status/989400794935054341
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This is actually incredibly interesting. Not for any reasons necessarily related to the next Pokemon game, buuuuut... a much younger President for Nintendo who has been in executive positions for TPC sounds like a welcome change.

EDIT: something miiight be HAPPENING: /vp/ - OH YES YES YES YES - Pokémon - 4chan

The blurry Lapras "leak" featured an Eevee on the trainer's shoulder. TPC now advertising Eevee plushies designed to be shoulder-mons.

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Searching the new president in Bulbapedia turns up zero results...Apparently he hasn't been directly involved in any game.

Zeraora's ability or whatever being revelated exactly today instead of mid-May is very suspicious, and increases the possibility of a game reveal for the next month.
 
I still need to understand if they actually don't know when the games will be ready or if they do know but they want to keep the new release date secret until the announcement. Cause we are almost in May, when exactly will they know if the games will be 2018 or 2019?
 
Joker901 said:
I still need to understand if they actually don't know when the games will be ready or if they do know but they want to keep the new release date secret until the announcement. Cause we are almost in May, when exactly will they know if the games will be 2018 or 2019?
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It's likely they now and are just holding off updating until the actual reveal. I would assume the reveal trailer will have a general time period at the end like any of the other reveal trailers did
 
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