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Slownenberg on 04 August 2023
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NintendoPie said:
Slownenberg said:

But no, Pokemon MUST stick to its 3 year schedule. With increasing graphical fidelity now that Pokemon games are on Nintendo's powerful 'console' system rather than the underpowered handhelds of yesteryear, and if the games are going to be open world now, they absolutely NEED to extend their mainline schedule to at least 4 years if they don't want every game to be even more of a buggy mess than V/S was at launch. The games will still sell well, but the series will gradually lose favor if they don't increase the dev cycle.

and with that... an announcement for a pokemon direct next week. gamefreak doesn't seem to be slowing down, unfortunately. i was really hoping they'd take this year off (aside from DLC) and focus on creating a better next-gen game. yet, the pokemon machine rolls on. 

hopefully the announcement is for a let's go style game and nothing massive.

haha so true. I could see them do another Legends on Switch next year to get just one more Pokemon game on Switch. I think Pokemon has a history of releasing games very late into a lifecycle. And Legends seemed like it was the start of a series so I assume there will be at least two or three Legends games. But it would be great if the Pokemon direct was just like here's a couple small little things announced and now we're gonna wholly focus on the next mainline game for the next three years. Ha fat chance.