Sun and Moon Ultra will be the last games released on the 3DS so my guess is that they will just be killing off these handhelds entirely. Kind of sucks because I only just got mine last year. It will be useless now... *sigh*
Rainbow Rocket has been confirmed for the new games, aDrive explains it all:
Game Freak has revealed that Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon will be the last titles in the Pokemon franchise to come to the handheld DS line, strongly suggesting that any future core games will be exclusively available on the Nintendo Switch.
In a recent interview with IGN, the director of Game Freak, Shigeru Ohmori, said that the company has pushed the 3DS to its limits and achieved all it can on the platform:
“When we were making Pokemon X and Y, we really were trying to push the 3DS system to its absolute limits - which is what we thought we’d done. But when Sun and Moon came around, we completely redesigned the system, and actually ended up pushing the 3DS even further to what we thought was the most we could draw out of it.”
It makes sense that the developer is now looking to move away from the console given that staying with it will only hinder advancements in the series.
“With Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon we’ve tried to eke that out more and really, really push the system to its absolute limits," Ohmori said, "and we’re now feeling that perhaps this is the maximum of what we can get out. So we’re really treating Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon as the culmination of our work with the 3DS system.”
So yeah, the game will likely be out sometime next Fall or Spring of 2019.
Thoughts on this? Will you buy a Switch to continue playing Pokemon?
Rainbow Rocket has been confirmed for the new games, aDrive explains it all:
Game Freak has revealed that Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon will be the last titles in the Pokemon franchise to come to the handheld DS line, strongly suggesting that any future core games will be exclusively available on the Nintendo Switch.
In a recent interview with IGN, the director of Game Freak, Shigeru Ohmori, said that the company has pushed the 3DS to its limits and achieved all it can on the platform:
“When we were making Pokemon X and Y, we really were trying to push the 3DS system to its absolute limits - which is what we thought we’d done. But when Sun and Moon came around, we completely redesigned the system, and actually ended up pushing the 3DS even further to what we thought was the most we could draw out of it.”
It makes sense that the developer is now looking to move away from the console given that staying with it will only hinder advancements in the series.
“With Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon we’ve tried to eke that out more and really, really push the system to its absolute limits," Ohmori said, "and we’re now feeling that perhaps this is the maximum of what we can get out. So we’re really treating Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon as the culmination of our work with the 3DS system.”
So yeah, the game will likely be out sometime next Fall or Spring of 2019.
Thoughts on this? Will you buy a Switch to continue playing Pokemon?
