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Nintendo Switch gets 3 new Pokémon games this year, but not Gen 8

The Pokémon Company International announced that three major Pokémon games are coming for the Nintendo Switch during 2018. And these don’t include another major Pokémon game coming in 2019. Two will feature a major tie-in with Pokémon Go, the runaway hit mobile game. And it’s a big deal for Switch fans, who have been waiting for the sprawling transmedia franchise to catch up with Nintendo’s fast-selling game console.

Over 20 years, gamers have bought more than 300 million Pokémon video games. The brand has shipped 23.6 billion trading cards to 74 countries in 11 languages, and more than 1,000 TV episodes have been released over 21 seasons. And mobile users have downloaded Pokémon Go hundreds of millions of times since 2016.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.