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Pokémon Sword/Shield Games' New Trailer, TV Ad Streamed
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The official Japanese YouTube channel for the Pokémon franchise began streaming a new video for the Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield Nintendo Switch role-playing games on Friday. The video highlights the new Pokémon that have been revealed so far, and it is available on YouTube.
Nintendo UK also began streaming a 30-second television commercial for the game on Thursday.
The games will ship worldwide for the Switch on November 15.
The starter Pokémon in the games' new Galar region will be Grookey, Scorbunny, and Sobble. The previously revealed new Pokémon in the games will also include Wooloo, Gossifleur, Eldegoss, Drednaw, Corviknight, the Legendary Pokémon Zacian and Zamazenta, Alcremie, Yamper, Rolycoly, Duraludon, Galarian Weezing, Galarian Zigzagoon, Galarian Linoone, Obstagoon, Morpeko, Cramorant, Polteageist, Sirfetch'd, and Galarian Ponyta. Several Pokémon will get new Gigantamax forms, including Pikachu, Meowth, Eevee, Charizard, Butterfree, Drednaw, Corviknight, and Alcremie. New features will include Dynamax and Max Raid Battles, Gigantamax forms, Poké Jobs, the Battle Stadium, Surprise Trades, and Pokémon Camp.
The Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee! games, the franchise's first games for the Nintendo Switch, shipped in November 2018. The games are set in the Kanto region of the first Pokémon games, and are specifically based on 1998's Pokémon Yellow: Special Pikachu Edition.
Sources: Pokémon franchise's YouTube channel, Nintendo UK's YouTube channel
