| Qwark said: Pokemon is going to sell well even without really putting all that much effort in it, it seems. I think Nintendo is very happy about this. The pop-in alone was a reason for me not to buy it. But appearently people are really happy with it here, so who am I too judge. I wonder if Nintendo is going to make pokémon an anual series now. |
Pokemon has mostly been an annual/biannual series since its inception.
The only years where there was no mainline Pokemon game (i.e, remakes, new iterations, sequels, third versions) in Japan were:
1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2015
Though its hard to give the full timeline as games prior to X/Y were released in Japan first before going overseas so it usually would take several months for them to come stateside after their Japanese release. For example, Pokemon Firered/Leafgreen were released in Japan the same year as Emerald in Japan (FR/LG in January while Emerald in Sept.). However, Emerald was eventually released in 2005 overseas compared to FR/LG being released in late-2004 overseas.
I think its just that a lot surrounding the franchise affects the games. The merchandise, the TCG, the anime, etc. They all revolve around the games releasing a certain time. Its hard to delay one thing without delaying the other projects.
