Don't Assume Nintendo Will Drop its 3DS/Handheld Line: Here's Why

[Dulfite]

mZuzek said:

StarDoor said:

In the Nintendo Spotlight, Ishihara said that Game Freak is developing a "core RPG Pokémon title" for the Switch. How can that be interpreted as anything other than mainline? He called it a core RPG, and Game Freak has never made any Pokémon games other than the mainline ones.

You don't get it.

Dulfite wants mainline Pokémon to remain on handhelds, thus Ishihara meant it as a spin-off.

False, I'd love the mainline series to be on switch. I just don't want to get my hopes up. We've had rpg like Pokemon games on consoles before and they haven't been the mainline series.