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The Pokemon director saying 'it may not be out for another year' pretty much confirmed to me that Gamfreak is aiming for a 2018 release for that game. He was saying that development would most likely take longer than 12 months. So I think it'll be holiday 2018.  I'm also pretty sure they started development on the Switch title before Sun and Moon came out.  Hopefully Monoliftsoft is helping them out with HD development and making an open world like theydid for Zelda.  That should also speed things up.

Metroid is more interesting, as the trailer really made it look like it had just started development or even that they had just decided to ok the game in the first place. But if it is really coming next year it must have been worked on for a while, and they just don't want to show it off yet. Which I guess is possible with the Fire Emblem and Pokemon announcements.