Rate Nintendo Direct - 03/08/18!

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StarDoor said:

Flilix said:

I still think Pokémon is likely to release this year. The Pokémon guy at E3 said: "It may still take more than a year until it gets released", which sounds like they're trying to make it a holiday 2018 game. It would also fit very well in the schedule, since they would probably want to release Smash together with the online service in September. If either Fire Emblem or Yoshi releases in August, and the other one in October, they would still need a big game for November. Pokémon would be perfect for that. Captain Toad and 3rd parties are just minor games to fill in the gaps, so these shouldn't be a problem. And Metroid Prime 4 will probably be released in 2019.

Of course, things may very well turn out completely differently, but I don't think this schedule is unlikely at all.

I think Animal Crossing is more likely to be November's big game. The last Pokemon generation came out in November 2016, and a gap of only 24 months is smaller than any previous generational leap for Pokemon. On the other hand, the last Animal Crossing game came out in November 2012, and six years is longer than any previous gap between Animal Crossing games; the current biggest gap is between City Folk and New Leaf, at four years.

Masuda has been the director of every new Pokemon generation since gen 3 with the exception of gen 7 which could possibly mean hes been working as director on gen 8 while a different team was working on gen 7.

Also Pokemon is officially listed as 2018 or later by Nintendo, i doubt they would say that if 2018 isnt what they are aiming for.