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

[Darwinianevolution]

Ka-pi96 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.

You sure about that? They did it with the 3DS. Pokemon Black/White released on DS just 5 months before the 3DS launched in Japan and in the same month as the western launch.

They've chose not to release Pokemon games as a launch title before and instead go for last gen only, don't see why they couldn't do it again.

Maybe when the DS was reaching 150m units sold Nintendo thought software sales were good enough, but considering the dwindling handheld market and weaker home console sales, Nintendo is going to want every single console-seller they could get. But again, I think Magiana is a 6th gen pokemon, for Z or X2/Y2, so I'm not worried.