Pokkén Tournament Announced for the Wii U August 21, 2015

The Pokémon Company kicked off this year’s Pokémon World Championships with a big announcement, the Japanese arcade game Pokkén Tournament is coming to home consoles next year!

Pokkén Tournament is an arcade fighting game developed by the creators of TEKKEN featuring many of the characters from the Pokémon franchise.  Before today, it was believed that Pokkén Tournament would never be released outside of Japan. Now we know that the international community will not only be able to play it, they’ll be able to play it on the Wii U. Take a look.

Pokkén Tournament is coming Spring 2016 exclusively to the Wii U.