{"id":103343,"date":"2019-11-08T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/pokemon_sword_and_shields_japanese_launch_event_has_been_canned"},"modified":"2019-11-08T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T16:30:00","slug":"pokemon-sword-and-shields-japanese-launch-event-has-been-canned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/08\/pokemon-sword-and-shields-japanese-launch-event-has-been-canned\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Sword And Shield&#8217;s Japanese Launch Event Has Been Canned"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b9df73213b206\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b9df73213b206\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Pokemon Sword Shield\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b9df73213b206\/pokemon-sword-shield.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b9df73213b206\/pokemon-sword-shield.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Pokemon Sword Shield\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_sword_and_shield\">Pok\u00e9mon Sword And Shield<\/a><\/strong> is shaping up to be one of the biggest launches of the year, and nowhere is that truer than in Japan, where the series enjoys so much fame that &#8216;mon are given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/09\/random_slowpoke_becomes_pokemon_ambassador_of_japanese_prefecture_kagawa\">positions of authority<\/a> and no one blinks an eye.<\/p>\n<p>Taking this into account, any and all launch events relating to the franchise are going to be very popular indeed \u2013 but The Pok\u00e9mon Company has just pulled the plug on one of its biggest shindigs due to take place on November 15th in Ikebukuro, Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pokemon.co.jp\/info\/2019\/11\/191108_at01.html\">statement<\/a> issued by The Pok\u00e9mon Company, the event has been cancelled due to &#8220;operational reasons&#8221;. Producer Junichi Masuda and game director Shigeru Ohmori were scheduled to appear at the event. An apology has been offered to &#8220;customers who were planning to visit&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pok\u00e9mon Sword And Shield is shaping up to be one of the biggest launches of the year, and nowhere is that truer than in Japan, where the series enjoys so much fame that &#8216;mon are given positions of authority and no one blinks an eye. Taking this into account, any and all launch events relating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}