Can't see a brand new pokemon on Switch before 2019

So did the Mario Kart 8 team with the ''Zelda x Mario Kart 8'' and ''Animal Crossing x Mario Kart 8'' DLC packs. They made DLCs until mid-2015 but still had time left to craft ARMS and MK8DX with the new Battle Mode (and also new characters and gameplay tweaks).

And also, I doubt most of the team worked on Bayonetta and Corrin. They usually have a portion of the team working on additional content and the rest move on to another project (so I'd like to think )

Famitsu numbers are out

PS4 sold 34,564 units this week, bring the YTD total to 1,391,000

PS4 needs to sell 609k from now until end of december to sell a full 2,000,000 in one calendar year

Trails of Cold Steel sold 104,000 units

Dragon Quest XI PS4 has reached 1,314,000 + 145,000 (digital) = 1,459,000

Dragon Quest XI 3DS has reached 1,712,000 + 75,000 (digital) = 1,787,000

Dragon Quest XI Total = 3,246,000

Dragon Quest isnt done selling and has a holiday season ahead of it. Should clear 3.4 million by January in my opinion

Link to the Famistu numbers?

i got them from neogaf so here you go

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1442792

Switch is freaking killing Japan.

Let see If I have done this right! It's been awhile!

Another Discrepancy from Media Create and Famitsu. Will wait for Dengeki to get a clearer picture for Cold Steel III and PS4.

Rank	Title (manufacturer)	Model	Genre	price	Estimated sales volume	Chloreby  10 points perfect score	Sold out
	Legend of Heroes Legend Screen III [Japan Falcom] September 28, 2017	PS4	RPG	7800 yen  [excluding tax]	104401 books Total: 104401	8.25 points
	FIFA 18 【Electronic Arts】 September 29, 2017	PS4	Sports	7800 yen  [excluding tax]	50 692 Total: 50, 6924	-
	Fire Emblem Musou [Koei Tecmo Games] September 28, 2017	Switch	action	7800 yen  [excluding tax]	4,0606 Total: 4,0606	9.00 points
Four	Splatoon 2 [Nintendo] 21 July 2017	Switch	TPS	5980 yen  [excluding tax]	Twenty-two 924 Total: 1,287,746	9.25 points
Five	POKKEN TOURNAMENT DX [Pokemon] September 22, 2017	Switch	action	5980 yen  [excluding tax]	25 5260 books Total: 77,220	-
6	Fire Emblem Musou [Koei Tecmo Games] September 28, 2017	3DS	action	6800 yen  [excluding tax]	21,548 books Total: 21,548	9.00 points
7	Pocket Monsters Gold · Silver (Download Card Version) 【Nintendo】 Sep 22, 2017	3DS	RPG	1111 yen  [excluding tax]	18,872 Total: 74,465	-
8	Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 【Nintendo】 April 28, 2017	Switch	race	5980 yen  [excluding tax]	15,364 books Total: 661 6145	8.75 points
9	FIFA 18 【Electronic Arts】 September 29, 2017	Switch	Sports	5800 yen  [excluding tax]	12,896 Total: 12,896	-
Ten	Limited Temple Castle Panzers 【Compile Heart】 September 28, 2017	PS4	Simulation · RPG	7200 yen  [excluding tax]	10 0 411 Total: 10 411	7.75 points
11	Winning Eleven 2018 【KONAMI】 September 14, 2017	PS4	Sports	7600 yen  [excluding tax]	10 0215 books Total: 96,880	8.75 points
12	Dragon Quest XI In pursuit of the passing of time 【SQUARE ENIX】 July 29, 2017	3DS	RPG	5980 yen  [excluding tax]	7118 books Total: 1.171 2112	10.00 points
13	The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild [Nintendo] 03 Mar 2017	Switch	Action · Adventure	6980 yen  [excluding tax]	6736 books Total: 526,679 books	10.00 points
14	Monster Hunter Double Cross Nintendo Switch Ver. 【Capcom】 August 25, 2017	Switch	action	5800 yen  [excluding tax]	6443 books Total: 15 ten thousand nine	-
15	Snack World Treasures 【Level Five】 10th August 2017	3DS	RPG	4800 yen  [tax excluded]	6051 books Total: 170,000 8027	8.75 points
16	Fall Out 4 Game of the Year Edition 【Bethesda · Softworks】 Sep 28, 2017	PS4	Action · RPG	5980 yen  [excluding tax]	5544 books Total: 5544 books	-
17	Shinobi, Love - Tanbana flower picture scroll - [Idea Factory] September 28, 2017	Vita	Adventure	6300 yen  [excluding tax]	5358 books Total: 5358 books	8.00 points
18	Destiny 2 (Destiny 2) 【Sony · Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia】 Sep 6, 2017	PS4	Action shooting	7900 yen  [tax excluded]	5310 books Total: 80,000 0023 books	8.75 points
19	Rufuran's Underground Labyrinth and Witch No Brigade [Japan's Software] September 28, 2017	PS4	RPG	6980 yen  [excluding tax]	5075 books Total: 5075	-
20	Nora and Princess and Stray Cat Heart 【HARUKAZE】 September 28, 2017	Vita	Adventure	6980 yen  [excluding tax]	5027 books Total: 5027 books	8.00 points
twenty one	Dragon Ball Zeno Barth 2 for Nintendo Switch 【BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT】 September 07, 2017	Switch	action	6800 yen  [excluding tax]	4220 books Total: 36,243	-
twenty two	Metroid Sams Returns [Nintendo] Sep 15, 2017	3DS	action	4980 yen  [excluding tax]	4045 books Total: 40,0355 books	8.00 points
twenty three	New Minna no GOLF 【Sony · Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia】 August 31, 2017	PS4	action	5900 yen  [tax excluded]	3697 books Total: 148208	8.25 points
twenty four	Dragon Quest X All-In-One Package 【SQUARE · ENIX】 21 September 2017	Switch	RPG	4800 yen  [tax excluded]	3285 books Total: 16,873	-
twenty five	Dragon Quest XI In pursuit of the passing of time 【SQUARE ENIX】 July 29, 2017	PS4	RPG	8980 yen  [excluding tax]	3179 books Cumulative total: 1,140,428	10.00 points
26	Tobii Animal Crossing Ani amiibo + [Nintendo] November 23, 2016	3DS	Other	2700 yen  [excluding tax]	2977 books Total: 229701	-
27	Uncharted Ancient God's Hidden Blog 【Sony · Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia】 Sep 14, 2017	PS4	Action · Adventure	4900 yen  [excluding tax]	2947 books Total: 25,588	9.25 points
28	Marvel VS. Capcom: Infinite Standard Edition [Capcom] 21 September 2017	PS4	Battle fight	6990 yen  [excluding tax]	2758 books Total: 12,863	8.00 points
29	NBA 2K18 【2K】 19 September 2017	PS4	Sports	7000 yen  [excluding tax]	2732 books Total: 12,288	8.25 points
30	FIFA 18 【Electronic Arts】 September 29, 2017	PS3	Sports	7800 yen  [excluding tax]	2601 books Total: 2601	-

Dengeki numbers:
CSIII: -93,289
Fifa 18 PS4 - 50,325
Knack 2 -2,106
PS4: 29,367

FEW (switch) - 39,200
FEW (3DS) - 20,278
FIFA (switch) - 13,244
Switch: 71,106

Wich means Nintendos stock is sold out officially and it's only available through scalping resellers. Otherwise by your definition of 'not sold out' The NES mini has been 'in stock' through the whole of last year, despite the console not actually being in production.

While it's true that the Splatoon Team is an offshoot of the Animal crossing team, almost none of the Splatoon Team ever worked on Animal crossing, they were recruited from all over Nintendo to build a new Team. The main Animal Crossing Team was free to develop something else in the meantime.

Ever since Nintendo restuctured their software departments in 2015, every major Team works on two big games + one small game concurrently. (The only exeption being Team Zelda, who usually work on a console Zelda and a handheld Zelda concurrently with smaller handheld offshoots a la Triforce Heroes inbetween.)

The big games in this case have been Splatoon and Splatoon 2 in quick succession, while the small games have been the dreadful animal crossing party game and Happy Home Designer. That means they are due for the next big game soon.

The Team that is really awol is EAD 4, aka the pikmin Team. Their last release was Mario Maker in 2015...

Those "fads" are what cause Nintendo to make 3D Mario more like 2D mario. Those "fads" had 2D mario outselling 3D Mario always. If Nintendo can make an ambitious 3D Mario that is a huge system seller then Nintendo can make an ambitious 2D Mario to become an even bigger system seller. The easy reason being is that Peak 2D Mario will always obliterate Peak 3D Mario. However we will have to wait and see what Nintendo does with 2D Mario first. 

2018 is the earliest the Pokemon game can come.   Also Nintendo has the game as 2018 or later. However between every new generation of Pokemon there is usually 3 years in between. If it comes out in 2018 it will scream "rushed". Sun and Moon came out in 2016 so 2019 seems just right. You got to remember that they are also adjusting to new hardware.  Again the Animal Crossing team just got done making Splatoon 2. So if Animal Crossing is being released next year than it is  mostly a new team. Which could be possible but I think it is less likely.

If Animal Crossing comes out next year it will be a surprise to me. I just don't think they can make a game like Animal Crossing in a year unless they got a new team to make it.  Animal Crossing would have came out on the Wii U but the Animal Crossing team decided on Splatoon  instead. They probably did that because Animal Crossing on the Wii was not a killer app they wanted. 

Here is what we know so far for 2018.
Kirby
Fire Emblem
Yoshi

We should expect 
A Mario game
Retro's game

Nintendo usually releases around 8 games a year. There are probably 3 titles that we have no idea what it could be. Animal Crossing could be one of those titles but I don't think it is likely.