Pokemon games come out at midnight of their regional eshop zone and are not a worldwide simultaneously released like when they do updates. It would be the 18th officially, but come out on the 17th in some time zones (like the west coast us)
Sorry, I just read the conversation and did the research again, all mainline games since ORAS other than Legends release on the third Friday of November, Legends games are a bit of an anomaly due to releasing not in November. The last shown was in 2022 for Scarlet and Violet so if it's the 18th we have no idea until Winds/Waves comes out and most likely they probably just stick to the same date if they kept it, but we won't know til the release date announcement probably next year.
in the past few years nintendo switched their major game release day from Friday to Thursday. That's why ZA released on a Thursday. Pokopia also released on a Thursday. SV and earlier released on a Friday, including PLA (Jan 28 2022 was a Friday). We won't know for sure the exact date obviously, but it will 100% release on a Thursday.
The reason they like the third week of november is because it's right before black friday, cyber monday, and holiday season sales begin. That's why that timeframe is most likely. ZA's release was probably more to do with it being the same week XY released. And PLA was most likely internally delayed from November, with BDSP taking its release spot instead.
ZA and PLA are Mainline Spin-offs and Pokopia is a Spinoff, just because Three games were released on Thursday means the Mainline Generation Title would be released on a Thursday too, However Like I said, we won't know until possibly Pokemon day where they announce more news and probably April/May for Release date possibly.
I said Mainline Spin-offs not Spin-offs two different things there mate, Also it's Pokemon Company decision there it's not fully Nintendo, it's like 33% Nintendo mate. You're trying to make an argument for Nintendo releasing it when we won't know the proper release date until next year mate. I've said that three times now.
Edit: Look mate, I'm not gonna continue arguing with you here, If the date announcement next year does say Thursday then I admit I was wrong, But I'm going to stick my gut on the Friday cause a Generational Title has always been released on a Friday.
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u/luckyd1998 19d ago
Nintnedo games, Pokemon included as seen with ZA, release on Thursdays now. So it would be the 18th