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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. |
I think early october. Don't know why, just sounds right to me ¨,
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I'm hoping for early-mid September, considering my Birthday just so happens to be around that time. ^o^
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Oh thanks Nintendo. You really helped the date there.
"Fall" being September-November so probably somewhere around there. |
I'm predicting anywhere from mid September to early October. That feels about right to me.
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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.
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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. |
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.
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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. |
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.
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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. |
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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. |
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. |
I really hope it's at least before September, perhaps early August, that's my summer all together then. :3
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At a push November but I'd guess late September or early October, one of the two.
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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. |
I remember seeing it on a game site saying October 2012.
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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.
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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
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Im hoping for it to be available in September or October, but wouldnt be surprised if it was closer to Christmas.
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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.
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Will the English version of b2w2 correspond with the English dub anime? If so then the games should be released mid october.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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? |
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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.
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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. :(
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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. |
A worker at gamestop told me it'd be released mid/late October
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When do you guys think an official release date will be announced anyways? Wasn't BW's announced around January or so?
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I still got my bets on anywhere from late September to mid October. Everything is pointing towards around that date.
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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.
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how many months apart was the BW japan release from the BW american release?
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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 |
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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) |
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!
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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. |
My money's on it coming out right before Christmas like a week before or so, since that's technically still Autumn.
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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! |
^ 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.
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The site linked on PokeCommunity's front page says "In stock Oct, 2012" so I'm assuming probably early October.
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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. |
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.
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For some reason,October 15th is screaming at me for it coming out.
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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).
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I hope it's released on August...
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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. |
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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.
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Five months is better than Six though. |
The sooner the better :D It's too bad E3 didn't talk about Pokemon BW2 WE did get some stuff about conquest though.
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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...
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Mid October or even the 2nd week of November. imo
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A month? Then that might mean that they might not come out until November...darn Black Friday!
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The one month anime head start in the US was done in order to have BW2 on track, I'm thinking...
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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...
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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.
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^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!
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I would think that it comes out early october, they said fall 2012 and november just doesn't feel right too me.
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November is still very much Fall (N.H) /Spring (S.H.). It'll be only a month sooner than normal.
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I'm gonna take a random shot in the dark and say October 21st.
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^That's the date after the 2nd Homika episode comes out in the Us so it's likely.
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october i wish august 11 my b-day
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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...).
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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. |
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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).
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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. |
Early November seems to be the right date. Enough early buyers before Black Friday in the States.
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my thoughts
Most likely in Mid Aug. to Oct.
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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.
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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. |
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. |
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.
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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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