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6th Gen Possible release date.

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CycloneGU said:
This is one of their flagship brands. They want you at the midnight release event, NOT on the Internet!

Also, MK8 took over an hour for folks to download on Wii U when it came out. Makes more sense to delay EShop.
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This is Pokemon. I highly doubt they get the majority of their business from midnight release events.
 
Oryx said:
This is Pokemon. I highly doubt they get the majority of their business from midnight release events.
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Yeah, besides a lot of people download the game itself at midnight instead of waiting in a line with a bunch of other people.
 
I love the release date, haha. Falls right before thanksgiving break for my school, which gives me an entire week to explore Hoenn's remastered tropical 3D world. I can't wait! Really disheartening for the Europeans, though. I wonder why they reverted back to old habits regarding release days.
 
Pepperton said:
I love the release date, haha. Falls right before thanksgiving break for my school, which gives me an entire week to explore Hoenn's remastered tropical 3D world. I can't wait! Really disheartening for the Europeans, though. I wonder why they reverted back to old habits regarding release days.
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The fact that it's only Europe that has to wait a week makes me think there was an issue with the European version. I don't think it's language though as the other copies should have the other languages too, unless they aren't doing the language option like in XY. Maybe a regulation issue with the EU?
 
I feel like this is punishment for European retailers dispatching X/Y a week or so in advance of the game's release date. :(
 
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I was absolutely certain that there would be a simultaneous worldwide release, as was done with X/Y, and for some reason, British Pokémon games stick with the American spellings of words, meaning the games would be almost identical, also leaving me wondering why it will take longer to release here...

to be honest, many people could probably complete the main story in that extra week it will take to release here in the UK.

and that is not the most satisfying of thoughts...
 
So apparently Japan, America and Australia (I'm assuming) will get the game on November 21st, which was funnily enough my top pick for the release date. Still, kinda feel sorry for the Europeans who have to wait another week, meaning they'll most likely be swamped with spoilers caused by other countries playing the game before them like what happened with most previous games.

X and Y took an interesting step forward with the worldwide release but I do feel this may be a step backwards. Don't understand the extra week's wait for European players but I think someone (I think that's you, OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire) might think there's an issue with the European versions that's causing them to have to tweak it a bit more.
 
Well Australia is getting it on the 21st. So now the question is now even more why was Europe left out?
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Any source? I'd have thought we're more likely to get it around the European date, if not different from both them and the US.
I was hoping they'd pull an X/Y again and do another simultaneous worldwide release but no it appears they gave European and Australian players the shaft once again. I remember we were last when it came to the release dates of Black and White, meaning lots of spoiled footage for Australian players. Still, don't know why they'd go back to doing what they did in previous generations and releasing the games in Japan then the US first again, and therefore leaving Europe and Australia waiting longer.
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Europe has 'more to do' (even if each game has the same number of languages available, the number of countries in there, with different laws and etc, does complicate matters at times), which is why with most every other Pokémon game Europe got the games significantly after the US.

I'll also mention that once upon a time, Australia beat out the US on the release of Gold and Silver by many, many months. Poor Europe waited something like a year after the US? Anyways, until there's a solid source stating when we do actually get it, it's still an unknown for us.


As to why no longer a worldwide release for everyone? Internal delays and issues (it's never an easy thing, and you don't see the same with happening in many mediums such as movies either), the failings of the last worldwide release (where many shops and even entire chains in countries released the game before the release date by a significant margin), etc can be blamed.
 
Just for a moment, I would like to say very nice job to the original poster. Very accurate prediction. I just hope it doesn't kill the Eshop again. But I will be buying hard copy anyways. And with me not using Poke Bank, I really have no reason to worry.
 
DarkPoke001 said:
I was absolutely certain that there would be a simultaneous worldwide release, as was done with X/Y, and for some reason, British Pokémon games stick with the American spellings of words, meaning the games would be almost identical, also leaving me wondering why it will take longer to release here...

to be honest, many people could probably complete the main story in that extra week it will take to release here in the UK.

and that is not the most satisfying of thoughts...
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It is already confirmed that it'll come out on the 28th in Europe, sadly for our European friends :(

I will be buying the hard copy myself. I do wonder if the E-shop thing though is the reason why...they only left off Europe. Maybe it has something to do with some stores in Italy leaking the XY early and this is their penalty for it? But Canada did so too...and NA didn't get anything bad. Also it's unfair to punish the whole continent or even a whole country for the offenses of a few stores in one country.

Edit: Bulbapedia has the 21st for Australia. I'm not sure what source they used, but the site is currently being careful with false information due to all the new info we're getting so likely it's true.
 
bobandbill said:
As to why no longer a worldwide release for everyone? Internal delays and issues (it's never an easy thing, and you don't see the same with happening in many mediums such as movies either), the failings of the last worldwide release (where many shops and even entire chains in countries released the game before the release date by a significant margin), etc can be blamed.
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I can see where you're going here, because remember that days before the planned release date for X and Y, we had Canadians and Italians getting the games early and there was that one guy on Instagram (his username was "kosthedin" if I remember) who was leaking scenes from the game, only to be caught and have his game confiscated. Even though he was unable to leak any more footage, this lead to a few other people leaking stuff like Pokemon, locations and a few other stuff over sites like Imgur and Tumblr.

That's probably the real flaw that comes with a simultaneous worldwide release. And yeah I do remember Australia getting Gold and Silver before even the Americans did, that was something unique. But yeah I do think there might be something with the European version that's pushing their release a week back.
 
Edit: Bulbapedia has the 21st for Australia. I'm not sure what source they used, but the site is currently being careful with false information due to all the new info we're getting so likely it's true.
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Is there a source on the bulba page then for it? If not, I would actually assume that it's unconfirmed at best. Take stuff from an editable wiki with a grain of salt - it needs to come from Nintendo or Pokémon's mouth (not even a store from Australia - they typically make up or use placeholder dates, including with Pokémon, until it's actually set). You can be as careful as you want, but when any number of fans can edit a page...

Come to think of it I'd be on a trip 19th-21st actually, meaning the earliest I could get the game is the 22nd. In a way I don't mind the delay then. =p
Also it's unfair to punish the whole continent or even a whole country for the offenses of a few stores in one country.
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Thing is, it's just one of many other possible reasons for the delay.

Another more sensible reason to 'it's to punish all of Europe for a few stores' is the eshop (also, are people saying it won't be on the eshop? Surely it would be like most other major games). Europe has a possibly bigger market to America, so in order to avoid breaking the server so much for the downloads (you don't want to risk having the whole thing go down for the game - look at how Bank went...), staggering the releases like this effectively halves the strain.

Doesn't mean again that it would be the only reason for Europe to get the games later - likely it's a whole bunch of them.
 
Altairis said:
I really can't find a source from Nintendo stating Europe's release date, but there are some articles from gaming websites, dunno if that matters. :X Poor Europe. :(
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Yeah, perhaps they'll give Europe something one week before the rest of us in order to make up for it.
 
OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire said:
Yeah, perhaps they'll give Europe something one week before the rest of us in order to make up for it.
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You really think they'll do that? They can't help European law, but they aren't going to invest and give something else away for it. If anything, an Event Pokémon in Europe only, but that would be the most. And I don't think they'll do that.
 
CycloneGU said:
You really think they'll do that? They can't help European law, but they aren't going to invest and give something else away for it. If anything, an Event Pokémon in Europe only, but that would be the most. And I don't think they'll do that.
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Yeah, I meant an event. Nothing like a special physical item or anything like that.
 
What if they are bringing the Game Corner back in ORAS and they have to change it in the European Version again? I mean they could obviously pull off the Worldwide release thing again but Europe is delayed for a week.
 
Avant Garde said:
What if they are bringing the Game Corner back in ORAS and they have to change it in the European Version again? I mean they could obviously pull off the Worldwide release thing again but Europe is delayed for a week.
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Interesting topic you've brought up there, but I know that Unova and Kalos had no Game Corner at all, most likely to do with the same European anti-gambling law that made the slot machines in European Platinum unplayable and the Voltorb Flip in all non-Japanese HeartGold and SoulSilver.

Still, maybe there might be something we don't know about that's pushing the European release a week back compared to the other regions.
 
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