Wanted Ad Suggests New Pokemon Game for the Switch

Now that the Switch is out, we can expect Nintendo is abuzz with all the new games they’ll be using to fill out its library. Most people, of course, only buy Nintendo consoles to play Nintendo games, as they have one of the most iconic, recognizable collection of IPs in the world.

So it’s only really a matter of time before we see a new Metroid game, a new Star Fox title… and of course, their most popular series (which they technically don’t even own), Pokemon.

Pokemon games have been a staple of every Nintendo console, even if that’s not what they’re not the platform where we typically see the biggest games. Where there has yet to be a mainstream Pokemon game released on a console, that might change in the coming years, as a new job ad (that was translated by the folks at Siliconera) released by Game Freak suggests that a whole new RPG adventure would be coming to the Switch.

We’ll have you work on the production an RPG game that is popular on a global scale.
Platform will be console.
It’s a title that just about anyone knows, a proposal that could be your future career.

While it doesn’t list Nintendo or Pokemon by name, Game Freak only really has one RPG that’s popular on a global scale, and there was already some talk that there’d be a mainstream Pokemon game released for the Switch earlier: after all, what better console for a Pokemon game than one designed to be taken on the go?

Details are sparse, of course, because job offers are a notoriously bad place to get information on these kinds of things - there’s nothing so much as a hint of a release date – but all the same, it’s pretty exciting. As long as it’s not, say, a new-and-improved Hey You Pikachu! That’d kind of be a bummer.