Friday: Pokémon Virtual Console - Japanese Mew Distribution + Pokémon Center Online + European Mythical Distributions
05-02-2016 05:09 GMT / 00:09 EST by Serebii
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Edit @ 05:20: Pokémon Center Online | Edit @ 19:07: Pokémon Day | Edit @ 22:57: Mythical Distributions
In The Games Department
Pokémon Virtual Console
Following the announcement of the Mew distribution for the Pokémon Red, Blue, Green & Pikachu 2DS owners in Japan who got the special 2DS and the special Mew exchange ticket for the Virtual Console games, we finally have some details for the distribution. The Mew distribution will run from March 19th through May 8th at Pokémon Center, Pokémon Store, Toys R Us, Tsutaya, and Aeon stores. In advance, they recommend that you save the game in front of the Cable Club and put a Pokémon at the head of your party to trade. They also recommend you change your console's username to match that of Pokémon. You need to take the special Mew exchange ticket with you in order to receive the Mew
In The Games Department
Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire
Following the announcement of the Mythical Pokémon events last month, the US releases were put down for the entire year, but the European schedule has not been. Today, Celebi & Jirachi have had their distributions for Europe finally confirmed. Like the US ones, Celebi will be distributed over the Nintendo Network from March 1st through March 24th while Jirachi will run from April 1st through April 24th. We'll bring more European confirmations throughout the year as they come.
In The Games Department
Pokémon Virtual Console
In September 2006, the online version of the Pokémon Center in Japan closed down. Now, following the re-open of it in the US, the Japanese Pokémon Center website is to reopen. It will reopen on February 16th at its old address of PokemonCenter-Online.com. With this, several new merchandise campaigns have begun and it will offer free shipping on orders over 3000¥. It is currently accepting member registration in advance of launch day
In The Pokémon Department
Pokémon Day
The Pokémon Company International has posted some new details onto the official site about various things to go on during Pokémon Day, which is to fall on February 27th to celebrate the 20th anniversary. Previously, details were scarce about events being held but now more have been revealed for North America.
Most notably, in the newly remodeled Nintendo NY store, previously Nintendo World, in Rockefeller Center in New York, a special Pokémon celebration will be held on February 27th 2016. This contains a lot of fun activities.
As previously revealed by Toys R Us, they'll give a free foil card of Pikachu from the Generations expansion in the US and Canada. A special Generations Binder will be exclusive to Toys R Us
Finally, Gamestop is to provide a free Mythical Pokémon poster when any Pokémon product is purchased.
We'll provide more on Pokémon Day as it comes
