Pokémon Scarlet And Pokémon Violet Revealed Alongside First Look At Starters, Releasing Late 2022

The next mainline Pokémon games have been revealed as Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet, and they’ll be released on the Switch in “late 2022.” 

This news comes by way of today’s Pokémon Day steam. Pokémon Red and Blue were released in Japan on February 27, 1996 and these days, The Pokémon Company celebrates the yearly anniversary with a stream about all of its games, including updates and more for them. This year’s included plenty of that, but it ended with the big reveal that Generation 9 is coming this year. 

A Game Freak security guard checks something before the trailer transitions to Scarlett and Violet footage. The trailer adopts the Sword and Shield look, although with major graphical improvements. This video appears to be set somewhere like Italy or South America, based on certain architectural elements. However, this trailer has beautiful uses of color, stunning vistas and familiar pockets monster faces. 

Perhaps most exciting to fans is the big reveal of the Generation 9 starters, which appear to be a Grass-type cat or dog, a Fire-type Totodile-like Pokémon, and a Water-type duck. All three of them look great and we can’t wait to see what they evolve into later this year. 

Game Freak claims these games will be available for Switch users in late 2022. Expect a release date of October or November. While waiting for that, read up on all of the other Pokémon Day announcements. 

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