First announced on January 8, 2013, by Satoru Iwata through a special Nintendo Direct, both X and Y were released worldwide on October 12, 2013, making them the first Nintendo-published retail games to have such a global simultaneous release in all key regions.Īs with previous installments, each game follows the journey of a young Pokémon trainer as they train Pokémon. They are the first installments in the sixth generation of the Pokémon series of role-playing games. Pokémon X and Pokémon Y are role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS.
