The best part about this rumour is that Game Freak are moving on to NS development. I mean of course I will buy Stars but Gen 8 is what really has me excited.

And THIS is exactly why there is not a copy of Sun arriving in my mailbox today. I almost broke down and ordered it yesterday, but I can hold out for half a year to see if this comes to fruition. Lol at anyone who thinks Nintendo hasn't begged/demanded/asked/pleaded/wooed/worked with/blackmailed/bribed/suckered Game Freak into getting a mainline Pokemon game onto the Switch. Don't talk to me about tradition and "no third versions since Gen 4" and all that bullshit. It's realer than it's ever been for Nintendo right now, and that Switch has to sell.

Awesome news, I'm starting to believe they might really nail this console

Although it is a shame this is all coming out now, but Nintendo decided to wait so long before announcing everything despite obviously having leakers in their company. At first I thought these leaks may have been controlled to keep hype up, but there is too many to believe that is the case now.

Well development of full new Pokemon game for Switch would definitely last much longer than actually 3rd version of Pokemon Sun and Moon, and it seems that Nintendo wants to have Pokemon game in Switches 1st year, actually all that has sense.

That would be a nice move imo.
Make the Sun/Moon handheld and then the 3rd one console.

Or Red/Blue hanheld, Yellow console.
X/Y handheld, Never came Z console.

Ect.

Keep that pattern, imo. Of course this all depends on what comes out after 3DS. Is there a new handheld coming out? Or is the switch the all in one device. If the later, it better have a better battery life than what rumors suggest as weak. I'm hoping that I can buy a better battery like I did for the Wii U gamepad. Basically doubled the battery life. No idea why it wasn't packaged in.

Basically Pokemon started out by having various versions to encourage social aspects of the trading hence why some Pokemon are only available in one version or the other and why some can only evolve when they are traded regardless of which version you have. The games are large in content but in most of the installments the majority of that content actually unlocks when you've beaten the main quest, it's a bit of a trademark of the series in that the real adventure begins when you's beaten the main objective X/Y is really the exception here.

The main differences between two game would be the Pokemon and Legendary Pokemon you can catch, haven't played the full game of Sun/Moon yet (the demo is fun) but in recent games like the remake of OR/AS the games had alternate versions of the same story as you're dealing with a different antagonist group in each so S/M maybe the same. S/M has a different struture to previous games though as it doesn't utilize the usual Gym battle structure in progression and they've done away with the notorious HM moves as well from what I've heard.

So its basically a port with a higher rez? Apart from a new 3d Mario, do we know of any other Nintendo games which arent ports that are coming out for the switch?

It is also getting not one but two eggplants.

One is punchy punchy.

The other one is jumpy jumpy.

Tnx.

Yes Nintendo make this happen! This is how you make a come-back!