Pokémon games are heading to the Nintendo NX

21 Sep 2016

Steve Wright

Speaking with the Wall Street Journal, The Pokémon Company President Tsunekazu Ishihara has confirmed that Pokémon games will appear on the upcoming Nintendo NX console.

Core Pokémon titles have skipped Nintendo’s home consoles in favour of handheld offerings, but that doesn’t look to be the case in Nintendo’s next-generation.

“The NX is trying to change the concept of what it means to be a home console device or a hand-held device,” Ishihara said. “We will make games for the NX.”

The next Pokémon games, Sun and Moon, will be available on Nintendo 3DS from 18 November.

We’ll have more as this develops.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.