It’s been well over three years since The Pokemon Company confirmed that a new Detective Pikachu game was in development, but since then, we’ve heard nary a peep about the game.
As per the LinkedIn page of Jonathan Murphy, who’s a senior game programmer at Creatures Inc, the Detective Pikachu sequel is “nearing release”.
As for when the game will actually release, or when it will be formally unveiled, that remains to be seen.
The fact that he explicitly calls it Detective Pikachu 2 is also notable, because of course, that this will be a full-fledged sequel to the 3DS original was never actually officially confirmed by The Pokemon Company or Nintendo.