Nintendo Direct Predictions: Pokemon Gen 8, Starters, and Region Reveal

We’re finally getting a Pokemon Direct for the first time in more than a year on February 27 at 6 a.m. PT / 9 a.m. ET / 2 p.m. GMT and February 28 at 1 a.m. AEDT (sorry Australia.) While we don’t know for sure that it will focus on the core RPG Pokemon title for Nintendo Switch, why else have a Pokemon Direct if Nintendo isn’t going to discuss the incredibly highly anticipated Generation 8? Yeah, we’re rolling with that. Here’s what we expect (and hope for) from tomorrow’s Pokemon Direct.

If we can rely on any single detail being revealed in the February 2019 Pokemon Direct, it’s the name of the Generation 8 Pokemon Nintendo Switch games.We first heard about the Gen 8 Pokemon games back at E3 2017, and we learned in May 2018 they would be arriving worldwide in Fall 2019. It’s about time we learned, at the very least, the name and logo of the new games releasing this year. We got at least that much from the 2016 Pokemon Direct for Pokemon Sun and Moon. 

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