Does Switch really needs Pokemon this year!?

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Pavolink said:
Let me tell you something. Part of the Switch success is about Nintendo merging both handheld and homeconsole libraries in a single piece of hardware.

After today, the Switch is getting a port of a Wii U game (homeconsole), but couldn't get even a lazy port of a mainline Pokemon game (handheld).

It is not a surprise that some are even speculating around the web or believing that they are going to create another handheld platform or if GF is really going to put at some time mainline games at it.

This of course gives no confidence to the general public or Pokemon fanbase, which is going to buy 3DS or keep their old ones to play the game and pass om the Switch, a new console that needs to grow its userbase as fast as it can to guarantee external support.

Now then, we may be more informed gamers, but out there this holiday season, people that wants to play Pokemon, which is a lot, won't buy a Switch because there's no game on it to play right now.

Tl;dr Yes it needs to grow the userbase faster.

This is the overreaction I was looking for.

Let's look at the DS. It came out in 2004. Pokemon Emerald released a year later, for the GBA. The first Pokemon games on the DS were Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (2005 in Japan) and Pokemon Ranger, released in 2006. It didn't receive it's first mainline Pokemon until 2007 (Sept 2006 in Japan), around 3 years after the DS came out. That sure didn't harm the DS now, did it?

Personally, I wish US/UM wasn't even a thing. Neither Stars/Eclipse; I would like them to move out of Gen 7, take a year break and make an actually great Pokemon game. And that wouldn't harm the Switch in any way. They can't keep up with stock with "only 2 worthwhile games", imagine the holidays with Mario and Pokemon. It's a waste of resources for GF and Nintendo.