Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet: Everything we know about the next Pokémon games
(Pocket-lint) — The next mainline Pokémon games are on the way — The Pokémon Company used 2022's Pokémon Day celebrations as the perfect time to announce Scarlet and Violet, the next two games in the series, which are coming for Nintendo Switch.
We've got the first trailer for the games, and glimpses of both returning and all-new Pokémon, so there's plenty of information about the games out there. Here are all the key details you need to know.
You can see the first trailer for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet above, and happily it's not a tiny snippet to tease their release, but rather a full three-minute look at the games in motion, with loads of gameplay clips cut throughout it.
The first trailer for the twin games ends with the information that they'll be arriving in late 2022, which we would assume would mean around the holidays in winter, so there's a little while to go before they come out.
That said, it's still a great bit of news that they'll be out this year, especially since 2022 has already seen the release of Pokémon Legends: Arceus to a really good reception. It's not too often that you get more than one proper Pokémon release in a calendar year, after all.
The two games have both been announced for Nintendo Switch, and will completely exclusive to that platform, which is no surprise at all, given the history of the franchise on Nintendo's machines. They won't come out on any other consoles, or on PC.
We'll start where players will — the starter Pokémon for the game have been unveiled, and they're looking mighty cute already.
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They're Sprigatito, a grassy cat; Fuecoco, a firey crocodile; and Quaxly, a duckling. It's a
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