{"id":36885,"date":"2018-07-31T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/pokemon_rpg_release_date_has_changed_from_second_half_of_2019_to_late_2019"},"modified":"2018-07-31T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T12:45:00","slug":"pokemon-rpg-release-date-has-changed-from-second-half-of-2019-to-late-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/31\/pokemon-rpg-release-date-has-changed-from-second-half-of-2019-to-late-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon RPG Release Date Has Changed From &#8220;Second Half&#8221; Of 2019 To &#8220;Late 2019&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/pokemon_rpg_release_date_has_changed_from_second_half_of_2019_to_late_2019\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/pokemon_rpg_release_date_has_changed_from_second_half_of_2019_to_late_2019\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"pokemon.png\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/pokemon_rpg_release_date_has_changed_from_second_half_of_2019_to_late_2019\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/pokemon_rpg_release_date_has_changed_from_second_half_of_2019_to_late_2019\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"pokemon.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We&#8217;ve known that the upcoming core RPG <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon\">Pok\u00e9mon entry for Switch<\/a> is expected to arrive in 2019 for some time now, but the official release window has now been given a slight tweak.<\/p>\n<p>Since the game(s) was first detailed back in May, the release window has been described as &#8220;second half&#8221; of 2019; new information from Nintendo&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nintendo_has_sold_19_67_million_switch_consoles_to_date\">financial release<\/a> today has now listed the window as &#8220;late 2019&#8221;, however. While the change might initially seem relatively minor, this essentially confirms that the new entry will be a holiday season release rather than a summer arrival. The change was spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.serebii.net\/index2.shtml\">Serebii.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Serebii Update: The main series Pok\u00e9mon game due for release in 2019 has had its release date refined from &#8220;second half&#8221; of 2019 to &#8220;late 2019&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gDbXkHSvkT\">https:\/\/t.co\/gDbXkHSvkT<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Serebii.net (@SerebiiNet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SerebiiNet\/status\/1024190023976054784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The change shouldn&#8217;t be too worrying, though; rather than being a delay, the new wording appears to simply be a more specific refinement of that previously mentioned date. With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon: Let&#8217;s Go, Pikachu! and Let&#8217;s Go,\u00a0Eevee!<\/strong><\/a> releasing this November, we&#8217;re likely looking at a one year gap in between mainline entries &#8211; a trend that has now been present since 2016.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you desperate for the new Pok\u00e9mon RPG to release, or are you happy to wait a little longer for the best possible final result? Let us know down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve known that the upcoming core RPG Pok\u00e9mon entry for Switch is expected to arrive in 2019 for some time now, but the official release window has now been given a slight tweak. Since the game(s) was first detailed back in May, the release window has been described as &#8220;second half&#8221; of 2019; new information [&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-36885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36885","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=36885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}