Nintendo Switchin Pokémon Sword/Shield julkaistaan 15. marraskuuta. Verkossa on poristu siitä, ettei National Dex ole mukana kokonaisuudessaan. Toisin sanoen osa taskuhirviöistä jää pois. Nyt on selvinnyt, ettei Game Freak aio lisätä National Dexiä julkaisun jälkeenkään.
Game Freakin tuottaja Junichi Masuda kertoi Inside Gamerille (josta raportoi englanniksi Dot Esports), ettei puuttuvia taskuhirviöitä olla lisäämässä mukaan myöhemmin.
"We currently don't have plans to make the Pokémon that are missing from the Galar Pokédex available in the game. This is an approach that we want to continue with in future Pokémon games. Up until now it hasn't been possible to encounter every Pokemon in every game, so people had to transfer them from old games to the new game, by using Pokémon Bank as an example."
"The Pokémon Home app is currently in development, in which players can collect their various Pokémon, and only Pokémon in the Galar Pokédex can be transferred from there to Sword and Shield. We encourage people to use Pokémon Home to collect their Pokémon from old games. From there they might be able to take them to other games in the future."
