Rumour: Pokemon Winds & Waves was delayed from November 2026 and caused big scheduling issues
By Google News Technology ·
New nuggets of information have emerged regarding the long-awaited next mainline Pokemon game entry Pokemon Winds and Pokemon Waves for the Nintendo Switch 2. The games were apparently scheduled for this month, but were pushed back at the last moment as they simply were not ready for release. This in turn caused massive scheduling issues for The Pokemon Company across its games and media.
I imagine it caused massive scheduling issues for Nintendo too as they would have needed to adjust all their other releases to account for the hole it left. You have to say it’s impressive that it hasn’t noticeably shown up like that.
This never happened before with them. It seems like all their plans has been sabotage. Doing stuff in the last minute is never a no go.
IMO worth it though. The games deserve that time to cook. Excited for what they have in store just gimme gen 3 and colosseum while I wait lol
A Pokemon game, being delayed? What’s next, pigs can fly?
I think a third legends game has been scrapped. I’m still ok with winds and waves needs a little more time to be in the oven but I get that people don’t want to wait any longer.
I would love it if it’s due to some quality standards or even just pride as a developer but… I could easily see the reason being that they wouldn’t have it feature complete (and still buggy) by release date.
One extra year in the oven would not have saved ScarVi from its litteny of underlying issues, primarily the sheer incompetence of seemingly nearly every cook in the kitchen (not you creature design artists) and I don’t see how anyone thinks it could possibly save anything else made my the same team.
Even if it runs at a rock solid 60fps with no bugs, the core design philosophy of the studio is just bafflingly amateur for such a high profit property. It NEEDS to be co-developed by a third party or a Nintendo in-house themselves for anyone but the hopelessly addicted/naive to get anything of real value from it.
THat’s not to say it won’t sell well anyways, it obviously will no matter what, which is how we got here.
No edit button? Pardon the typos. Everyone will hate me anyways.
I’m glad it got delayed. It was clear scarlet and violet was rushed out and poorly optimized. TBH that title should’ve been saved for the switch 2 since we already had sword and shield on switch 1. Glad they learned that it’s better to delay than rush out something half baked
Frankly it would have been wild for them to release a Pokemon game and a Zelda game in the same month anyway.
Originally published by Google News Technology
