On July 22, Tencent Games and Japan's Pokémon Company jointly announced that they will team up to develop Pokémon's new games. The main R&D work will be undertaken by Tencent's TIMI Studio.

The release didn’t say anything about which platforms or any other details about the games. Tencent is the mobile giant behind Honour of Kings and PUBG Mobile (now called Game of Peace) and other big PC titles in China like Crossfire and League of Legends.
 
This is the latest in a string of recent major partnerships The Pokémon Company has sought with eastern mobile developers. In May, it announced it would work with DeNA on Pokémon Masters, a mobile title planned for launch before the end of the current financial year. Also that month, The Pokémon Company struck a deal with NetEase for the Chinese developer to release Pokémon Quest in China, and a localized Pokémon Go release is allegedly still in the works.
 
“If it’s a console game, it would be explosive,” Liao Xuhua, a gaming analyst at Beijing-based data consultancy Analysys, told KrASIA. Timi Studio Group developing a Pokémon console game would mean that Tencent and Nintendo’s cooperation has been elevated from distribution to co-development, Liao added.
 
What do we know so far:
·Tencent announced a partnership with Nintendo to bring the Switch to China
·Tencent and The Pokemon Company will work on a new Pokemon game
·The game will be developed by Tencent’s TIMI studio
·TIMI Studio made the company’s biggest hits. They are the ones behind the upcoming Call of Duty Mobile
·The Pokemon Company previously worked with NetEase to bring Pokemon Quest to China, but this is an original game
 
Since 2019, Pokémon and its investors, Nintendo and Tencent, have continued to cooperate. At the beginning of April, Tencent confirmed the agent Switch host China business, followed by "Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Edition", "Super Mario Odyssey", "Super Mario Bros U Deluxe Edition", "The Legend of Zelda" The ace game of the Nintendo Switch platform has been sent for review. In early July, Tencent established a special Nintendo cooperation department, which is responsible for Nintendo's business in China, such as Switch.
 
Nintendo also said at the shareholders' meeting in April: "Tencent is the largest company in the Chinese game industry, and cooperation with them should enable the business to be maximized." Nintendo President Furukawa Taro also revealed that Nintendo's promotion strategy is to let more people Get in touch with Nintendo's IP.
 
The announcement of the new news also marks the cooperation upgrade between Tencent and Nintendo. In the future, not only is the game release, but in the field of game development, the two are expected to have more in-depth cooperation, and the mobile game will be an important part of the overall layout.