New Pokémon Switch Online games are on the way – Pokémon Stadium 2 and Trading Card Game are headed to Switch Online starting today. As announced during today’s Pokémon presentation, some new pocket monster titles are headed to Nintendo’s Switch Online Game Boy and N64 libraries. While they might not be the Pokémon Game Boy titles most folks were hoping for, they are still notable addition to the offerings if you ask me. Both titles are scheduled to arrive on the platform starting today for Switch Online and Expansion Pack members. Head below for more details.
New Pokémon Switch Online games
Today’s Pokémon Switch Online announcements come on the heals of Nintendo bringing The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons to the service just after Revenge of Shinobi and Ghouls ’n Ghosts landed on the SEGA side of things. But for now it’s all about Pokémon.
The Pokémon Trading Card Game is now playable for everyone with a Nintendo Switch Online membership as part of the Game Boy™ – Nintendo Switch Online library. In addition, the Pokémon Stadium 2 game is also playable for everyone with a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership as part of the Nintendo™ 64 library!
As we mentioned above, they might not be the beloved mainline Red, Blue, and Yellow Pokémon titles, but at least it’s something? And perhaps this could open the door for the classics to make an appearance in the future.
Pokémon Trading Card Game – arguably the more popular of the two new additions – originally launched in 1998 in Japan and 2000 in North America for Game Boy Color. It is, for those unfamiliar, a video game adaption of the physical tabletop experience and it will be playable via Nintendo Switch and Expansion Pack starting today.
More of the latest updates to Nintendo Switch Online:
- Standard Switch Online members can now play Zelda Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons
- Nintendo adds Revenge of Shinobi, Ghouls ’n Ghosts to SEGA Switch Online, playable now
- Nintendo now set to bring Super Mario Advance 1 and 2 plus Yoshi’s Island to Switch Online
- Street Fighter II Champion, Kid Chameleon, Pulseman, and more are now playable on Switch Online
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