Looks like an early build of Pokémon Sword and Shield leaked
What looks to be an early, work-in-progress version of Pokémon Sword and Shield has appeared online, and fans are excitedly poring over its details.
The pre-release build was streamed last night on Twitch, apparently running on a debug Nintendo Switch unit. Simultaneously, fans began pulling apart and examining its files.
That Twitch stream is no longer available to view and the user’s channel is currently inaccessible. But screenshots from the stream, along with sound files and other data pulled from the build and originally posted to 4chan, have been widely shared on Twitter where they still remain.
Files list the build’s date as March 2018, more than 18 months before the game’s release in November 2019. As such, it is full of early designs, as well as elements using code from 2018’s Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee.