{"id":451674,"date":"2026-03-01T08:35:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451674\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T08:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:35:20","slug":"ign-pokemon-winds-and-waves-region-based-on-southeast-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451674\/","title":{"rendered":"IGN: Pokemon Winds and Waves region based on Southeast Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"930\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pokemon_winds_pokemon_waves.jpeg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   data-attachment-id=\"396037\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mynintendonews.com\/2026\/02\/27\/the-pokemon-company-announces-pokemon-winds-waves-for-2027\/pokemon_winds_pokemon_waves\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mynintendonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/pokemon_winds_pokemon_waves.jpeg?fit=1920%2C1080&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"pokemon_winds_pokemon_waves\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mynintendonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/pokemon_winds_pokemon_waves.jpeg?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mynintendonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/pokemon_winds_pokemon_waves.jpeg?fit=930%2C523&amp;ssl=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We got our first look at <a href=\"https:\/\/mynintendonews.com\/2026\/02\/27\/the-pokemon-company-announces-pokemon-winds-waves-for-2027\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pokemon Winds and Pokemon Waves<\/a> yesterday during <a href=\"https:\/\/mynintendonews.com\/2026\/02\/27\/todays-pokemon-presents-roundup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Pokemon Presents<\/a> presentation and it looks to be shaping up to be something special. The games are Nintendo Switch 2 exclusives, which mean that they should take advantage of the more powerful hardware and won\u2019t be constrained by the original Nintendo Switch console. IGN has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/pokemon-winds-and-waves-region-is-indeed-based-on-southeast-asia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> that the games take inspiration from the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia with many users from those countries excitedly proclaiming that various landmarks found in the trailer largely resemble those seen in the Philippines and surrounding areas. Pokemon Winds and Pokemon Waves launch in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to SonicGalaxy27 for sending in the news tip!<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We got our first look at Pokemon Winds and Pokemon Waves yesterday during The Pokemon Presents presentation and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-451674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}