Game news A Switch excluded in the Pokémon universe could make a comeback in 2022
The end of 2021 was, in part, marked by the franchise to pocket creatures on Switch. On January 28, the Pokémon franchise will continue its expansion on the Nintendo mobile phone with a new opus, namely Pokémon Legends: Arceus. However, it might not be the only Pokémon game to release on the Big N machine in 2022.
Well attached to the traditional formula of the main branch of its franchise, The Pokémon Company has not hesitated, in the past, to try to shake up its habits to give life to productions that are a bit more original than usual. Recently, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company wanted to break the codes of the franchise a bit by bringing Pokémon Snap back to life., with New Pokémon Snap, or by offering a little more freedom, without giving in to the sirens of the open-world, with Pokémon Legends: Arceus that comes out in a good handful of days.
Beside that, The Pokémon Company has endeavored to expand its license by allowing it to use the codes of certain video game genres to allow it to affix its paw. This summer, Pokémon was entitled, with the help of Tencent, to a MOBA version thanks to Pokémon Unite and, a few years before, a combat game in sauce Tekken with Pokkén Tournament, first released in Arcade version then on Wii U before knowing a portage Switch, baptized Pokkén Tournament DX.
Pokémon put on the gloves again
According to a group of well-known leakers on Twitter, a sequel to Pokkén Tournament DX could well be announced in 2022. It has been over four years since babywearing Switch has been launched, but apart from some DLC allowing to expand its roster of playable combatant Pokémon, the license did not make any more talk about it despite encouraging sales without being amazing.
In this regard, the franchise of castagne with Pokémon sauce still has its fervent supporters, like Katsuhiro Harada, one of the producers of Bandai Namco who worked on Tekken as well as on top Pokkén Tournament. Apart from this unconditional love for the license, the latter had taken care to recall that the future of the franchise depended above all on a decision by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company.
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Seven years after the release of the Arcade version of the title, Pokkén Tournament ended up in a listing, collected by the group of leakers LeakyPandy, which also evoked a whole bunch of other video game projects like a future Mario Kart game, Pikmin, Xenoblade and many others. Of course, all this remains to be taken with a grain of salt given that on the side of Nintendo and The Pokémon Company, it is the most total radio silence.
The Japanese firm does not seem to have yet unveiled all its plans for the coming year and the next: It could therefore be that surprises are currently in the boxes, patiently waiting to be revealed to the general public.
Through Jinxeb, Writing jeuxvideo.com
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