So Pokemon Generation 6.5 Confirmed? Speculation and Discussion...

[Darwinianevolution]

Thunderbird77 said:

Darwinianevolution said:

The problem with a 7th gen this year is the wild card: the NX. If the 7th gen is indeed coming (and Magiania isn't just another megaevolution of Diance) it will have to be a NX launch title, because there's no way Nintendo is going to pass up the oportunity of boosting the NX hardware sales with a Pokemon game. The 3DS won't have two Pokemon gens. Only the GB and the DS had them, and both of them sold more than 100m units, so it made sense to capitalize on that massive userbase.

BW came out just months before the 3ds. Gamefreak never seems to have new pokemon gens as launch titles for nintendo's handhelds. So don't say it's certain when it never happened.

Again, by the time time BW came to the market, the DS was well above the 100m units sold. That was a time when handhelds were starting to see some pressure from smartphones. Nowadays, Nintendo needs as many system sellers to keep their system alive. Every original Pokemon game is almost guaranteed to sell around 14m, but its hardware-moving potential won't be really any good on the 3DS, that is almost reaching its sales roof.