What is Gamefreak doing?

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UncleScrooge said:
The next mainline Pokémon game, obviously. Black / White 2 was easy to develop so most of their resources went into X/Y at that point. Ruby / Sapphire was a remake based on an already developed graphics engine. That's why we got annual games. The new games just take a year longer to develop, that's all.

Also, releasing the franchise annually is probably a bad idea in the long run. But who knows, maybe we'll get a surprise announcement in August.

The next Pokemon games that are releasing, according to how they normally do it, would be X2 and Y2 or Z. So it would use the same engine as X/Y and ORAS.