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Free Nintendo Switch Demo For Pokken Tournament Coming Soon

A demo for the Pokemon fighting game is on the way.

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Curious about the Nintendo Switch Pokemon fighting game Pokken Tournament DX but not sure you want to buy it? Nintendo will offer a demo for the game "soon," it said on Twitter.

The announcement was made on Twitter (via DualShockers). The demo will be available to download from the Switch eShop, but there is no word as of yet as to when it will launch or what it will contain. We'll report back with more details as they become available.

Announced just before E3, Pokken Tournament DX is a new version of Pokemon Tournament for Wii U. It's developed by Bandai Namco, and launches on September 22 for Switch.

All 16 of the playable characters from the Wii U version are included with the Switch edition, in addition to five new ones: Darkrai, Scizor, Empoleon, Croagunk, and Decidueye. Some of Pokken Tournament DX's online features will require a paid membership to the Switch's online service, but not until 2018.

Pokken Tournament won't be the first Wii U game to come to Switch, as Nintendo brought Mario Kart 8 to the hybrid console in April. It's also not the last Pokemon game for Switch, as a new "core RPG" Pokemon game is coming to Switch ... eventually.

The announcement of the Pokken Tournament demo came during the Pokemon World Championships. You can read GameSpot's coverage to find out how the tournament ended with a big comeback.

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A port of a game we've all played before with little to no differences and a $60 price point plus an online membership. The Switch is saved! Thanks Nintendo!

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@lolfooledyou: Alot of people haven't played it, and I feel like increasing the overall roster by 30% is at least a notable difference from the original. Like it or don't, it doesn't really matter, but at least try not to present arguments that can be thwarted by common sense and simply reading the article you're commenting on.

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@lolfooledyou:

We haven't "all played" it before. How many Wii U's do you think actually sold?

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@lolfooledyou: Nintendo will continue to play its fan base like a damn fiddle cause the fan base will buy anything with the words, mario, zelda or pokemon slapped on the box even if it is a port.

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@gamingdevil800: And other fanbases don't? Do you even know what the word fan means?

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@Sgt_Crow: Can't really think of any franchises outside of nintendo that have been milked to death the way nintendo does. There is like 3 or more mario games this year alone...

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@gamingdevil800: CoD, AC, BF, FF, SF....

Did you even try?

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@metallinatus: I was thinking along the lines of exclusives but yeah you win LOL

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@Sgt_Crow: shhh, common sense doesn't work with those people.

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