‘Pokemon Sword and Shield” Release Date Reveal: Preempting E3, Direct Launch Announcement Expected

Normally, E3 is the event that most video game companies, studios, and developers choose to announce major news about the games and services that they are offering. However, it would appear that Nintendo is ignoring the event for the announcement of the launch of “Pokemon Sword and Shield.” Instead, the game’s launch date will likely be revealed during the Direct event, which will occur in a few days.

The “Pokemon Sword and Shield” is expected to hit the market later this year and everyone was anticipating that Nintendo would make the long-awaited announcement during E3 2019, Inverse notes. As always, however, the Japanese firm has decided to turn everyone’s expectations on their heads by seemingly deciding to forgo the event altogether.

Nintendo made the announcement itself via social media where the company promised that there would be “roughly 15 minutes of new information” related to “Pokemon Sword and Shield.” That alone is enough of a reason to be excited for the event involving the Switch game.

Until then, however, gamers will just have to wait until the actual event date to know where “Pokemon Sword and Shield” will be coming out. The event is expected to launch on June 5, so that is a date that fans might want to mark on their calendar. As to what Pokemon fans can even expect from the game, it would appear that a lot of details are already out in the wild.

Naturally, there will be a ton of new Pokemon introduced to the fans with the game being set in the Galar region. From the looks of the location design and the ambiance of the urban areas, it would appear that inspiration for the main “Pokemon Sword and Shield” region is the UK. Well, the UK during its formative industrial years, at least, which is quite an interesting addition to the lore.