Pokemon Winds & Waves
Nintendo opened a wishlist for a new Pokémon title called Winds & Waves, which signals the next big franchise push and gives fans a place to queue up anticipation. Wishlist pages don’t reveal gameplay, but they’re a reliable early indicator of release timing and marketing scale. If you’re into Pokémon, adding it to your wishlist helps track preorders and regional release notes. (x.com)
Nintendo and The Pokémon Company unveiled two new mainline entries — Pokémon Winds and Pokémon Waves — during the Pokémon Presents livestream on February 27, 2026, and both are listed as exclusives for the Nintendo Switch 2 with a simultaneous worldwide release scheduled for 2027. ( ) The announcement material and official product pages show an open-world archipelago with islands, a large ocean that can be explored (including underwater encounters), and dynamic day/night and weather changes, and the trailer revealed three starter Pokémon: Browt (a grass-type chick), Pombon (a fire-type, Pomeranian-like puppy), and Gecqua (a water-type gecko). ( ) Nintendo has already published product/store pages for each title with “Add to wishlist” and purchase information, and Nintendo’s wish list system sends email alerts for releases and sales while the eShop supports digital pre-orders and pre-loads (payment is generally processed up to seven days before release). ( ) In the games industry, publishers and analysts use wish-list counts and pre-launch “wish list curves” as early quantitative signals to forecast demand and decide how much marketing to commit; the Winds & Waves pages list multiple supported languages and a global 2027 release, which aligns with a planned worldwide marketing push rather than a limited regional launch. ( ) Nintendo’s product pages include concrete technical details released now — the official listings show each starter’s category, type, height, weight and ability, and the Waves page lists supported languages and rating information — and the announcement trailer also briefly showed new costume/customization options for Pikachu. ( )
