Some fans were a bit disappointed with this month’s Pokemon Direct due to a lack of news regarding a mainline Pokemon title for Switch. During E3 this week though, Nintendo remedied that. Nothing was shown, but during the Nintendo Spotlight broadcast, Pokemon president Tsunekazu Ishihara announced that Game Freak has started work on a core title for Switch.

Bloomberg asked Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime about the project following the presentation. He naturally didn’t have much to say, though he did note that it’s “a traditional find, battle, train type experience”.

While you wait for the first true Pokemon game for Switch, Pokken Tournament DX launches on September 22. Pokemon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon are also due out on November 17.

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The fact that they cannot straight up say it's gonna be a normal Pokemon game must mean it's not gonna be one.

"We present today Pokemon Go Switch Edition! With the all new Switch 3G for $400."

nope :P

We'd definitely know if it was real. Also, looks plastic despite not looking bad otherwise.

YES!!!! Give us graphics like the picture shown for a Pokemon game.

When I read this topic, my mind had no choice but to go into a full on performance of the in-game pokemon theme song, ending with me humming audibly at work. There were looks.

That image is awesome.

Heh, you're probably right. But we're at the point where graphics like that are actually feasible.

this is gamefreak we are talking about. unless an addition studio is doing the visuals we will get a ps2 level of visuals game ... gamefreak lacks expertise in this area, just look at there first 3d title pokemon x and it's fps.

What if they essentially "reboot" the franchise with this game, and reimagine Red/Blue as a new open world RPG with MMO features? This could make a lot of sense for them to ease into such a huge jump for the series, since they could just use the original 151 and not have to spend all that time on new designs and adding all those other 700 pokemon into the game. I mean it's going to be very time consuming modeling 800+ pokemon to current gen graphics when they're making the jump from 3DS models. After Go's success the OG 151 are about as iconic as it gets now, and the nostalgia of a Breath of the Wild-esque realization of Kanto could work to the game's favor in a gigantic way.