I don’t know if you remember Detective Pikachu There’s even another game, but it’s there, and it looks like it’s not only still around, but may be out soon.
The original 3DS Detective Pikachu game was the inspiration for the 2019 film of the same name, and it was announced shortly after the film that it would be receiving a sequel for the Switch. And then we just… haven’t heard anything about the sequel since. But a keen-eyed user on Famiboards noticed a mention of the game on developer Johnathon Murphy’s LinkedIn page, suggesting the game might not be too far off.
Famiboards user MetalLord shared a screenshot of the LinkedIn page of Murphy, a developer who has been a senior programmer since 2017 at Creatures Inc., the company that makes basically all your favorite Pokémon spin-offs and helps Developed the main game. “Worked on an unannounced and an upcoming project, Detective Pikachu 2, using Unity/C#,” Murphy wrote in the Creatures Inc. Experience section.
Considering we haven’t officially released the game since its release, this is the first time we’ve heard of it in over three years. Since discovering this, Murphy has changed the description to refer to Detective Pikachu 2 as “in development,” so obviously there shouldn’t be any mention of an upcoming release date.
Of course, there’s no guarantee that what Murphy wrote will be completely accurate in the first place. The change to the text might actually just fix a piece of incorrect text, but oddly it was there in the first place, so who knows! Nintendo does like to release surprises from time to time, and with the launch of the open-world Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, there’s nothing better than when the hype is at its highest.
