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KingCyndaquil May 27th, 2012 10:16 AM

English release date! Revealed!
 
American Release Date has been revealed


On October 7th, Pokemon Black Version 2 and Pokemon White Version 2 will be in stores in America.
On October 12th, Pokemon Black Version 2 and Pokemon White Version 2 will be in stores in Europe.
Australian release date has yet to be announced.

Plusleminun May 27th, 2012 10:23 AM

I think early october. Don't know why, just sounds right to me ¨,

ShadowStriatonTriad May 27th, 2012 10:29 AM

I'm hoping for early-mid September, considering my Birthday just so happens to be around that time. ^o^

droomph May 27th, 2012 10:33 AM

Oh thanks Nintendo. You really helped the date there.

"Fall" being September-November so probably somewhere around there.

Guy May 27th, 2012 7:00 PM

I'm predicting anywhere from mid September to early October. That feels about right to me.

Ho-Oh May 27th, 2012 7:05 PM

Well I keep thinking it'll be early October so you have a sort of three month gap which is half of BW's waiting time.

P0kelegend May 27th, 2012 8:44 PM

Late September/early October IMO.

I think its possible we could get a release date at E3 sometime next week. I doubt they'll actually cover B2W2 there, but I'm sure Nintendo will make a passing mention of it and could announce the release date. Coverage for the English versions has already started on the English Pokemon website (posted some screenshots and the Unova map) so its possible we'll get a release date very soon.

Xander Olivieri May 27th, 2012 8:47 PM

We most likely won't get an official release date until its released in Japan, even if TPCi already has their copies to translate and produce.

Ho-Oh May 27th, 2012 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by P0kelegend (Post 7193770)
Late September/early October IMO.

I think its possible we could get a release date at E3 sometime next week. I doubt they'll actually cover B2W2 there, but I'm sure Nintendo will make a passing mention of it and could announce the release date. Coverage for the English versions has already started on the English Pokemon website (posted some screenshots and the Unova map) so its possible we'll get a release date very soon.

Maybe but I think it might not be until the advertisements come on TV tbh. It still seems way too soon to hear of a release date when the English players know barely anything and we didn't get the Japanese one too long ago (well, like a month and a half?)

Hikamaru May 27th, 2012 11:37 PM

I predict sometime around September.

Given that my birthday is in the following month, I want to get the games when that time comes cos I know how awesome they are!

However, the problem is that my region is usually the last of the English-speaking regions to get the new games. I just better hope my native Australia doesn't have to wait until 2013, if it's that long I'll be disappointed.

Brendino May 27th, 2012 11:44 PM

The last couple of games have been released about 6 months after the Japanese release date, so it wouldn't surprise me to see them out sometime in late-November or early-December, which would also help capitalize on sales around Christmas. If it were up to me, though, I would like to see simultaneous release dates with the Japanese versions.

Treecko May 27th, 2012 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Brendino (Post 7193913)
The last couple of games have been released about 6 months after the Japanese release date, so it wouldn't surprise me to see them out sometime in late-November or early-December, which would also help capitalize on sales around Christmas. If it were up to me, though, I would like to see simultaneous release dates with the Japanese versions.

Uh it was announced early on back in February the games will be released in North America in Autumn 2012. That's only gonna be about three or four months since the Japanese release (June 23,2012) November or December wouldn't exactly be Autumn but more like Winter.

I'm really thinking it will be released in late September or mid to late October . This gives me time to get money before then to buy the games.
Hope they announce the English release dates soon.

Brendino May 28th, 2012 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by AWsquared (Post 7193920)
Uh it was announced early on back in February the games will be released in North America in Autumn 2012. That's only gonna be about three or four months since the Japanese release (June 23,2012) November or December wouldn't exactly be Autumn but more like Winter.

I'm really thinking it will be released in late September or mid to late October . This gives me time to get money before then to buy the games.
Hope they announce the English release dates soon.

True, but technically autumn lasts from September 22nd to December 20th this year, so it could realistically be released anytime between then.

Like I said, I would prefer it to be sooner rather than later, but something's telling me it might not work out like that.

Cosmotone8 May 28th, 2012 6:49 AM

Sometime in August would be nice. But it won't happen. XD
I honestly think it will be anywhere from Halloween to Thanksgiving. (Thats October 31st - November 22, for those of you who don't know).

Also, coincidentally, the Japanese version is out on my birthday, haha.

Mew~ May 28th, 2012 6:56 AM

I really hope it's at least before September, perhaps early August, that's my summer all together then. :3

blue May 28th, 2012 8:47 AM

At a push November but I'd guess late September or early October, one of the two.

KingCyndaquil May 28th, 2012 9:23 AM

i still say late august or early September.

i wouldn't really understand why they would release the games in November, if they do that they might as well wait until the holiday season to get more money out of it.

mikey May 28th, 2012 12:30 PM

I remember seeing it on a game site saying October 2012.

Xander Olivieri May 28th, 2012 12:48 PM

All sites that can Preorder it have it as October 2012. There is no definate date yet and it can be pushed back or forward depending on how early they start translating and producing copies.

Zelda May 28th, 2012 2:56 PM

I'm hoping they'll make the release date go in line with the release date for the Japanese B/W games, which would be in September. :B

Blade_of_darkness May 28th, 2012 3:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Kaori (Post 7194788)
I'm hoping they'll make the release date go in line with the release date for the Japanese B/W games, which would be in September. :B

That's shooting at the moon, here. I'm not expecting these games will be available to the masses outside of Japan until four months after the initial Japanese release, & that's my optimistic guess.

Shiny Celebi May 28th, 2012 5:28 PM

Im hoping for it to be available in September or October, but wouldnt be surprised if it was closer to Christmas.

KingCyndaquil May 28th, 2012 5:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Shiny Celebi (Post 7195046)
Im hoping for it to be available in September or October, but wouldnt be surprised if it was closer to Christmas.

they said Fall 2012, which is from August to October, so I doubt a Christmas release, and I'm even more doubtful of a November release, because like i said before that would be a bad business move

Jellicent♀ May 28th, 2012 6:39 PM

I'm going with the popular, mid to late September, belief. Though the websites selling the games say October, only they can do as much as theorize about the release date. As far as a Christmas release: yeah, no. No business man at GF in their right mind would do that. Sure, sales would be beautiful the day after, but they run the risk of under production, as well as demand severely decreasing afterwards, due to people having their minds set on Christmas, still. There are MANY things that could go incredibly wrong for GF if they did it.

TheFuturePokemon May 28th, 2012 7:27 PM

Will the English version of b2w2 correspond with the English dub anime? If so then the games should be released mid october.

Xander Olivieri May 28th, 2012 7:31 PM

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Originally Posted by TheFuturePokemon (Post 7195260)
Will the English version of b2w2 correspond with the English dub anime? If so then the games should be released mid october.

There is a possibility of that, yes. That kinda stands with my, "we'll see when the game is released in Japan." statement earlier.

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire May 29th, 2012 6:06 AM

Most of the time the anime comes before the games, so it's highly proable that we will see them in mid october, possibly around the 15th-20th is my guess.

bwburke94 May 29th, 2012 6:21 AM

If going with Sunday releases is the norm, then October 14 or 21 it is. My birthday's October 19, and I want to end my 18 years of "childhood" with some Poké-nostalgia.

Oryx May 29th, 2012 6:27 AM

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Originally Posted by bwburke94 (Post 7195818)
If going with Sunday releases is the norm, then October 14 or 21 it is. My birthday's October 19, and I want to end my 18 years of "childhood" with some Poké-nostalgia.

My birthday's October 2nd, so I'm hoping for around that time as well, so I can ask for it as a birthday present ;)

PaxAmericana May 29th, 2012 1:12 PM

Based on websites dates and popular belief, I think they will come to the shelves in late September-early October IMO. The games would help Gamefreak especially to be that near to Christmas.

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire May 29th, 2012 4:48 PM

wow so many October birthdays xD Well since it's likely to be october that would put it in either the 7th, 14th, 21st, or the 28th, 7 or 14 if they want to make it before the anime or 21 and 28 if after.

Xander Olivieri May 29th, 2012 5:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Magmaruby and Aquasapphire (Post 7196550)
wow so many October birthdays xD Well since it's likely to be october that would put it in either the 7th, 14th, 21st, or the 28th, 7 or 14 if they want to make it before the anime or 21 and 28 if after.

Most game releases are on Tuesdays, so if October then it would be the 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, or 30th. If September, it'll be 4th, 11th, 18th, or 25th.

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire May 29th, 2012 5:18 PM

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Originally Posted by XanderO (Post 7196569)
Most game releases are on Tuesdays, so if October then it would be the 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, or 30th. If September, it'll be 4th, 11th, 18th, or 25th.


Well in America Pokemon games have come out in Sunday's (Platinum March 22 2009, Hg/SS March 14 2010, and BW March 6, 2011 are just some recent examples), so those dates in my previous post are my American date guesses.
I do think Europe will have it earlier though seeing how they've been getting several games early, and didn't they get a recent game before NA did?

Xander Olivieri May 29th, 2012 5:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Magmaruby and Aquasapphire (Post 7196588)
Well in America Pokemon games have come out in Sunday's (Platinum March 22 2009, Hg/SS March 14 2010, and BW March 6, 2011 are just some recent examples), so those dates in my previous post are my American date guesses.
I do think Europe will have it earlier though seeing how they've been getting several games early, and didn't they get a recent game before NA did?

Pokemon Wise, they got Black and White before America did. To my knowledge that's the only one.

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire May 29th, 2012 5:27 PM

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Originally Posted by XanderO (Post 7196593)
Pokemon Wise, they got Black and White before America did. To my knowledge that's the only one.

That was the one, so if you go by that perhaps they will get B2W2 earlier like BW and KH 3D. For some reason Europe seems to be quicker at localizing games than North America these days... my guess it'll proably be a week to two weeks earlier than us. Australia will proably get it a week after...

blue May 30th, 2012 2:36 AM

I'm hoping Europe get it earlier than the US again, it was a nice surprise and it would make sence considering it would be following in the pattern of BW. We might see that B2W2 gets released October 4th in Europe & October 6th in US as it did in March for BW.

Ho-Oh May 30th, 2012 7:44 AM

Don't really want much of a time difference between the releases, tbh. Like really, having to wait six days after the original B/W release was hard enough. I feel like, it'll probably be two days between each country, so effectively we'd have an Australian release four days after which'll be great. :3 I'm sure they'll favour UK though, again. :(

Jellicent♀ May 30th, 2012 7:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Requility (Post 7197318)
I'm sure they'll favour UK though, again. :(

They always do. ;;
But, I would expect them to do it in the fall, of course, they could very well release it internationally the very next weekend/day. Who's to know?

Hopefully there just isn't a huge time difference. I'm more than certain that they've begun translating and are probably more than 90% done with the translations of the games, now they just have to begin the marketing campaign for it. So with all of that in mind, I really wouldn't be surprised if it takes about a month later.

Of course, then again they could have begun translating the moment Japan finished the game, sent out the coding and whatnot, and they are actually done with all of the translating and the processing and the marketing, and are just waiting for Japan to release theirs. In which case I could see them release it just a few days after.

Mikachu May 30th, 2012 5:10 PM

A worker at gamestop told me it'd be released mid/late October

Xander Olivieri May 30th, 2012 5:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Mikachu (Post 7197874)
A worker at gamestop told me it'd be released mid/late October

Worker's at Gamestop will only tell you personal opinions or what their print out tells you. All stores and Websites that can Pre Order games right now will tell you sometime in October. That's not an official date though.

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire May 30th, 2012 9:12 PM

When do you guys think an official release date will be announced anyways? Wasn't BW's announced around January or so?

blue May 31st, 2012 12:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Magmaruby and Aquasapphire (Post 7198154)
When do you guys think an official release date will be announced anyways? Wasn't BW's announced around January or so?

I think it will be before the release in Japan so sometime in early June I'd say, if not then just shortly after I mean it's only 3/4 months away for our release so I can't see them holding out much longer.

PaxAmericana May 31st, 2012 6:23 AM

I still got my bets on anywhere from late September to mid October. Everything is pointing towards around that date.

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire May 31st, 2012 2:36 PM

Well September and October all generally seen as the main months of Fall, usually nothing comes out in the last month of a season so it's reasonable to assume it'll be around those months.

KingCyndaquil June 7th, 2012 9:21 AM

how many months apart was the BW japan release from the BW american release?

blue June 7th, 2012 9:39 AM

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Originally Posted by KingCyndaquil (Post 7207134)
how many months apart was the BW japan release from the BW american release?

The US & European release dates are branded as "Fall 2012" so that could be anywhere between September - November, I'm putting money on October or late September so 3-5 months later.

Killjoy June 7th, 2012 11:11 AM

I god, I forgot it was 2012 this year lol I was like Sept-Nov 2012?!?!? Why can't it... Oh wait lol blonde moment I guess.

Anyway I sure wish It was I little sooner. I would have liked it if it was end of the June, like I thought it was

blue June 7th, 2012 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Killjoy (Post 7207193)
I god, I forgot it was 2012 this year lol I was like Sept-Nov 2012?!?!? Why can't it... Oh wait lol blonde moment I guess.

Anyway I sure wish It was I little sooner. I would have liked it if it was end of the June, like I thought it was

We're lucky it's Autumn 2012, it's usually 5-7 months for the translation to be complete which would mean a 2013 release at the latest, the gap is much smaller which is great IMO.

vaporeon7 June 8th, 2012 4:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Suicune™ (Post 7207217)


We're lucky it's Autumn 2012, it's usually 5-7 months for the translation to be complete which would mean a 2013 release at the latest, the gap is much smaller which is great IMO.

I cannot agree more, people who are saying that Japan are spoilt because they get B2/W2 a few months early really annoy me. Because we are still getting it relatively quickly. Anyway, I'd love it if they released it during the school holidays so that I can play it non-stop. My school work took a bad enough drop when B/W was released.

Hikamaru June 8th, 2012 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Requility (Post 7197318)
Don't really want much of a time difference between the releases, tbh. Like really, having to wait six days after the original B/W release was hard enough. I feel like, it'll probably be two days between each country, so effectively we'd have an Australian release four days after which'll be great. :3 I'm sure they'll favour UK though, again. :(

When I first read on Bulbapedia, they incorrectly stated the Australian release date as Spring 2013. They've since corrected it.

My guess is Europe will be the first of the EU/US/AUS trio to get the games. Australians will probably come last again (we got Black & White 4 days after the Americans)

blue June 9th, 2012 3:04 AM

I agree, I think it will follow like Black & White did, Europe first, shortly followed by America then just after will be Australia.. that's how I'm hoping anyway!

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire June 9th, 2012 8:41 AM

At the latest we will have the game 5 months after if November, at earliest 3 if september so those dates aren't that far away from now.
I'm hoping for an early September release to shorten the gap even more.

Cordelia June 9th, 2012 8:58 AM

My money's on it coming out right before Christmas like a week before or so, since that's technically still Autumn.

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire June 9th, 2012 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Mac (Post 7208745)
My money's on it coming out right before Christmas like a week before or so, since that's technically still Autumn.

That's true but in thats the case the gap would be the same as it always has been, six months...simply different seasons this time...

chella182 June 9th, 2012 2:26 PM

Late October / early November makes sense to me (if it is truly Autumn - don't know why some people seem to think December is an Autumn month :\) since it's smart-timing for xmas. Not that they'll need that, it'll most likely get good sales anyway, but still.

I'd hope it was before then, though, I can't wait!

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire June 9th, 2012 3:39 PM

^ 21 to 22 days of December are in Autumn technically seeing how the Winter solstice (the official start of winter) isn't until the 21 or 22. Though marketing wise it proably means September (which is technically a summer month ) to November.

Altairis June 9th, 2012 9:58 PM

The site linked on PokeCommunity's front page says "In stock Oct, 2012" so I'm assuming probably early October.

Ho-Oh June 10th, 2012 6:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Mac (Post 7208745)
My money's on it coming out right before Christmas like a week before or so, since that's technically still Autumn.

Might be a little too soon. I think Santa puts together his presents at least up to 3 weeks before, which gives children time to write letters and stuff before the day comes. One week is just too soon imo.

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Originally Posted by Lapras* (Post 7209279)
The site linked on PokeCommunity's front page says "In stock Oct, 2012" so I'm assuming probably early October.

Yeah but that's a placeholder name so it may not be anywhere near there. ;x

chella182 June 10th, 2012 1:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Magmaruby and Aquasapphire (Post 7209035)
^ 21 to 22 days of December are in Autumn technically seeing how the Winter solstice (the official start of winter) isn't until the 21 or 22. Though marketing wise it proably means September (which is technically a summer month ) to November.

Yeah but... I'm still not buying it haha. December's winter to me. And I can't imagine a company saying "Autumn release" and then releasing it in December 'cause most people, like me, would be like :? To me winter is December, January, February, and autumn is September, October, November. Again, I can't see many people thinking of September as a truly summer month. Certainly isn't anything like summer here anyway haha.

But that's marginally off-topic. I thought I'd read somewhere yesterday (after initially posting in here) that it was the 15th of October in the UK, but I cannot for the life of me find where I saw that.

Ariel Winter June 10th, 2012 1:46 PM

I bet 15th for the UK and 20th here. It seems we got BW 1 and the 3DS after the UK so maybe...or it could be the reverse this time.

Iceshadow3317 June 10th, 2012 1:58 PM

For some reason,October 15th is screaming at me for it coming out.

blue June 10th, 2012 2:04 PM

As people are saying it will most likely be mid October, September seems to early/soon and then November seems slightly late IMO. If I had to say an actual date I'd say 12th October for Europe & 21st October US/Australia (Games in Europe are usually released on Fridays).

Pokeace540 June 10th, 2012 2:25 PM

I hope it's released on August...

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire June 10th, 2012 2:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Pokeace540 (Post 7209922)
I hope it's released on August...

Not a chance, that's not even close to any definition of 'Fall' in the northern hemisphere or 'Spring' for the southern half.

My guess is October as well, likely the 14th for us in the Us if not the 21st seeing how most games are released here on Sunday.

blue June 11th, 2012 6:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Pokeace540 (Post 7209922)
I hope it's released on August...

August would be too early, only two months after the Japan release and I wouldn't class August as Fall.

Mr Cat Dog June 11th, 2012 6:48 AM

It'll be released in time for Christmas shopping. Indeed, it would be stupid for the game not to! So in the US that'll be before Black Friday (Nov 23 this year). But even that feels a little late, to be honest. Having said that, it took six months for BW to be released to the rest of the world after Japan... so maybe it will be later that we're currently pontificating.

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire June 11th, 2012 9:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr Cat Dog (Post 7210618)
It'll be released in time for Christmas shopping. Indeed, it would be stupid for the game not to! So in the US that'll be before Black Friday (Nov 23 this year). But even that feels a little late, to be honest. Having said that, it took six months for BW to be released to the rest of the world after Japan... so maybe it will be later that we're currently pontificating.

That is late, but I'm also pessimistic that it'll come as early as we have said on here...
Five months is better than Six though.

Kirbin June 11th, 2012 11:41 PM

The sooner the better :D It's too bad E3 didn't talk about Pokemon BW2 WE did get some stuff about conquest though.

blue June 12th, 2012 2:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Kirbin (Post 7211409)
The sooner the better :D It's too bad E3 didn't talk about Pokemon BW2 WE did get some stuff about conquest though.

I agree, E3 would have been the perfect opportunity to announce the release dates for US/UK considering it's only 11 days until the Japanese release, maybe it will be announced in the next week or so. However, I'm now looking forward to Pokémon Conquest so that should keep me busy up until B2W2.

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire June 12th, 2012 9:19 AM

Well it appears that the Homika episode pt 2 will come out Oct 20th so that might mean the games will come out the following day in America, or perhaps the following week...

Angelroid June 12th, 2012 5:20 PM

Mid October or even the 2nd week of November. imo

Ho-Oh June 12th, 2012 7:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Magmaruby and Aquasapphire (Post 7211744)
Well it appears that the Homika episode pt 2 will come out Oct 20th so that might mean the games will come out the following day in America, or perhaps the following week...

Not necessarily. iirc, the anime was out a bit before B/W (like a month before I think...?) so with the "swap over" for B2W2 it doesn't necessarily imply the next few days.

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire June 12th, 2012 10:23 PM

A month? Then that might mean that they might not come out until November...darn Black Friday!

bwburke94 June 15th, 2012 5:01 PM

The one month anime head start in the US was done in order to have BW2 on track, I'm thinking...

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire June 15th, 2012 9:43 PM

It proably will come out in the second or third Sunday of November if it really is one month after the anime episodes. Or perhaps it's before, weren't the Lyra episodes after HgSs already came out? They could do the same for B2W2...

Ho-Oh June 15th, 2012 10:56 PM

If it's the third it'd be exactly like around 5 months which wouldn't be too crazy and fits nicely into the season that is due for release.

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire June 16th, 2012 6:38 AM

^It really does plus it's the week after (or is it before?) Black Friday here in the States so they'll be big sells and maybe even fights to buy B2W2...Go Angry Mom use slam on Angry mom!

Greenbeans June 16th, 2012 9:37 AM

I would think that it comes out early october, they said fall 2012 and november just doesn't feel right too me.

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire June 16th, 2012 6:16 PM

November is still very much Fall (N.H) /Spring (S.H.). It'll be only a month sooner than normal.

crystalzapdos June 16th, 2012 6:27 PM

I'm gonna take a random shot in the dark and say October 21st.

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire June 16th, 2012 7:28 PM

^That's the date after the 2nd Homika episode comes out in the Us so it's likely.

Rodriguezjames55 June 16th, 2012 8:17 PM

october i wish august 11 my b-day

Oryx June 16th, 2012 9:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Suicune™ (Post 7211474)


I agree, E3 would have been the perfect opportunity to announce the release dates for US/UK considering it's only 11 days until the Japanese release, maybe it will be announced in the next week or so. However, I'm now looking forward to Pokémon Conquest so that should keep me busy up until B2W2.

E3 was only about WiiU and 3DS, the only time they mentioned Pokemon was to mention the 3DS apps so it wouldn't have made sense to announce a DS release date at that time, haha.

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire June 16th, 2012 10:10 PM

Well they mentioned B2W2 when they were show casing some of the soon to come games...ironically the rest were all 3DS games...so E3 wouldn't have been a bad time to announce the release date IMO (though it is a game in an old system so maybe that's why it missed out...).

Oryx June 16th, 2012 10:21 PM

Yeah, they mentioned the apps that are only available on the 3DS. Nothing about the game itself. That's why it was a 3DS conference and not a DS conference.

chella182 June 17th, 2012 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Iceman3317 (Post 7209888)
For some reason,October 15th is screaming at me for it coming out.

It does rather seem like an obvious date. Although it's a Monday... are games traditionally released on a Monday? Or is it Friday? Or no day in particular? I forget what day it was when BW came out in the UK.

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire June 17th, 2012 11:28 AM

In North America they tend to come out around Sunday so perhaps it'll be out on the 14th for us or possibly the 21st if Europe gets it on the 15th and get it earlier than other places.

psyciceman June 19th, 2012 11:21 PM

My local JB Hi-Fi (in Australia) had the 13th of September as a release date on their instore display (I'll get a photo tomorrow when I pick up Conquest)

Ho-Oh June 19th, 2012 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by psyciceman (Post 7220436)
My local JB Hi-Fi (in Australia) had the 13th of September as a release date on their instore display (I'll get a photo tomorrow when I pick up Conquest)

Yeah that's tentative. :( Nobody really knows for sure, plus I'd say that's way too early, actually. :x Also lol I keep thinking the games will be released in July rather than a few days idk why.

bobandbill June 19th, 2012 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by psyciceman (Post 7220436)
My local JB Hi-Fi (in Australia) had the 13th of September as a release date on their instore display (I'll get a photo tomorrow when I pick up Conquest)

I'd be sceptical of any shop given date, even if they say it directly themselves. Firstly unless they (Nintendo) announce it really soon (and even then) that leaves not much time to promote the games; under three months seems a touch short to me imo. That and the trend has been that the date was revealed by Nintendo, not stores, and any and all dates stores had given out turned out to be incorrect. They are merely guesses the vast majority of the time, as history has shown.

Only thing that date has going for it is that it is a Thursday, which has been the usual day for Pokemon games to get released the last few years in Australia. Still, take it with a grain of salt until Nintendo state it themselves.

psyciceman June 20th, 2012 12:07 AM

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Originally Posted by bobandbill (Post 7220442)
I'd be sceptical of any shop given date, even if they say it directly themselves.

Yeah, I was a bit shocked when I saw that display, their site still says New Years Eve so I'm thinking it could be the manager playing tricks

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire June 20th, 2012 10:58 PM

Well the games are out soon for all of Japan to get it. I'm hoping that they announce the international release date immediately after it's release in Japan that way they can move on to focusing on marketing the game here without delay (and it'll mean the games might come earlier than November).

Fiendly June 21st, 2012 12:39 AM

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Originally Posted by psyciceman (Post 7220476)
Yeah, I was a bit shocked when I saw that display, their site still says New Years Eve so I'm thinking it could be the manager playing tricks

They only say that so it's being released this year - just a precaution.

It could be delayed (I doubt) - it's happened to many games in Australia :/ I waited for some up to 3 weeks. Anyway it should be out September though, seems like a good time for us anyway.

bwburke94 June 21st, 2012 11:14 AM

Early November seems to be the right date. Enough early buyers before Black Friday in the States.

ShockHERO June 21st, 2012 12:50 PM

my thoughts
 
Most likely in Mid Aug. to Oct.

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire June 21st, 2012 11:04 PM

At Nintedo Direct they mentioned that they'll close to revealing the release date for B2W2 so we should expect in to be announced in the upcoming days.

Draconicsoul June 22nd, 2012 6:18 AM

I don't see why they couldn't have revealed it on last night's Nintendo Direct. They even had an English teaser trailer, for pity's sake! I"m not much for staying up late, but I stayed up till Midnight for that DirectCast, and I expected something a little more!

Maybe I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up.

elmagnate June 22nd, 2012 10:12 AM

I think most of you are being too optimistic.

Considering Fall lasts from the 20th of September to 22nd of december (I think) the most likely thing is that the game would be released in the USA (and possibly in Europe) between mid-late october and early-mid november, being september way too early and december way too late.

This is just a supposition, but I think that if they say such an unspecific date is because they arent going to release it that early. It usually goes like this in most of the releases of games.

JadeSkittles June 22nd, 2012 11:05 AM

I remember Ruby & Sapphire being released on a weekday. But I think the last few games have been weekends. I'm going with the 15th of October tbh.

SouKoLian9102 June 23rd, 2012 3:03 AM

I find it seriously annoying that Australia gets the games last. When BW came out in America a few days before Australia, my cousin was mocking me on Skype about it...


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