Pokémon Scarlet and Violet getting two-part expansion

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet will person a afloat fledged description , The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero, The Pokémon Company announced during Monday’s Pokémon Presents livestream. Hold your Rapidashes, though: It’s not coming retired until later successful nan year.

The DLC will surgery up into 2 parts: The Teal Mask, planned for a autumn 2023 merchandise connected Nintendo Switch, and The Indigo Disk, planned for a wintertime 2023 release.

The Teal Mask will nonstop players to a mountainous region called Kitakami, according to a news release from The Pokémon Company. The Indigo Disk, meanwhile, is mostly group successful Blueberry Academy, “a sister school” of nan world institution that serves arsenic a guidelines of operations successful Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. Five presumably legendary Pokémon person been added to nan mix: Each portion will get its ain screen prima (Ogerpon for The Teal Mask and Terapagos for The Indigo Disk) while 3 much (Okidogi, Munkidori, and Fezandipiti) will look successful The Teal Mask.

You’ll request to person reached nan Treasure Hunt section of Scarlet and Violet’s guidelines communicative — astir a fewer hours into nan crippled — earlier opening The Teal Mask. For The Indigo Disk, you request person vanished nan main campaign.

Pokémon games person ever been exercises successful iteration. Pokémon Red and Blue were followed by Pokémon Yellow; Pokémon Gold and Silver were followed by Pokémon Crystal. The conception of iterating evolved into existent sequels (see: Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, Pokémon Black 2 and White 2). For 2019’s Pokémon Sword and Shield — nan first mainline games to merchandise connected Nintendo Switch — developer GameFreak did distant pinch nan thought of consequent entries, alternatively opting to support nan crippled pinch a duo of description s: The Isle of Armor and The Crown Tundra.

Both The Isle of Armor and The Crown Tundra were magnets for nan type of contention that look insignificant but extremity up exploding into a Whole Thing. Pokémon Sword and Shield did not motorboat pinch each Pokémon successful nan Pokédex; each description expanded nan game’s Pokédex by rather a bit, leaving a pay-to-win aftertaste for galore fans.

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet likewise did not motorboat pinch each Pokémon, featuring a scant 400 astatine its November 2022 launch. The Pokémon Company says 230 much Pokémon will beryllium added to nan crippled crossed nan 2 description s, but did not specify which ones.