No price has been determined yet but $59.99 seems like a good guess. Pokken Tournament DX launches September 22 exclusively for the Nintendo Switch. Prize: Winners will each receive a Pokkén Tournament DX art piece signed by Tsunekazu Ishihara, president and CEO of The Pokémon Company, and members of the development team. The first person in each crew must choose one of the new characters the other person can choose one of the original characters. Name: 2017 Pokkén Tournament DX InvitationalĬompetitors: Eight YouTube and Twitch starsįormat: Crew battle with four teams and two players per team. Pokken Tournament DX will also make an appearance at E3 by featuring a tournament. Single Joy-Con play is also an option that will allow you to play with a friend without having to own an additional controller. The new version also introduces 3v3 team battles, online ranked play, and friend-only group matches. Local wireless multiplayer will be available between Switch consoles.
Today’s Nintendo Direct showed off the different ways this game will play on the Switch. Unfortunately, none of the characters will be patched into the Wii U version, which effectively makes that game finished in terms of updates. We are also getting a brand new Pokemon to join the roster: Decidueye, made popular from the Pokemon Sun and Moon games. We have good news in that those missing Pokemon will now be included with Pokken Tournament DX. However, the Wii U version was missing four notable Pokemon from the arcade version. The roster of Pokemon from the original Wii U release is: Since the game was developed by Bandai Namco for the arcade, it can most easily be compared to Tekken, since that was created by the same developer. The game acts as fighting game that pits two Pokemon against one another. Pokken Tournament DX is a port of the 2016 Wii U version, which itself was a home console edition of the 2015 arcade version. It’s not what we expected at all but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
While many fans were no doubt expecting a different Pokemon title to be announced for the Nintendo Switch, we definitely were one of them, Nintendo did unveil Pokken Tournament DX, an enhanced port of the original Wii U version.