| Torpoleon said: @Slownenberg I wasn't agreeing that Gen 10 should be a cross-release though. I am of the belief that it should be Switch 2 only. It will probably launch by holiday 2026. Similarly, we had LGPE in Switch's second holiday, which did not release on 3DS. I feel like that's ample time for a Switch 2 only release, especially in the 30th anniversary. Maybe they could release or announce Gen 1-3 main series releases for both Switch & Switch 2 beginning that year (I could see Gen 1-3 being on both systems). With the leaks stating that Z-A was originally planned to be released in 2024, I bet TPCi is wishing they moved Arceus to Holiday 2022, SV to Holiday 2023 and SV DLC to 2024. Would've given the Switch a big release for holiday 2023 and given those games more development time. Literally everything Pokemon-related needed these games delayed. The anime could've had more time with Ash's final season. Sales of existing core series games would've even been higher than they already are. Would not be surprised if Arceus would be a 20m seller in this scenario. BDSP & LGPE likely would've outsold BW by now (assuming they haven't already done it but we don't know for sure just yet). I do agree that they should move to a 4 year schedule though and hopefully not be shy to have a remake outsourced. |
Agreed I'd like to see it be only next gen. In general I think when people speculate about Nintendo starting to do lots of cross gen games like the other systems do I think that is not going to happen. They've never done that other than the two times they've had Zelda games coming out so late that they just released it cross gen at the new system launch. I'm just saying I could see them wanting to take advantage of the Switch's user base to sell one more pokemon game on it, but only if they are sticking with the 3 year cycle and gen 10 is coming out like 6 months after Switch 2 launches. And I believe there was a pokemon game that came out on 3DS after the Switch launched, so that's kinda what I'm basing my idea of its possible they'll also release it on the older system.
And yeah with another Legends game coming out next year, it'd be absurd if they once again did a Legends plus mainline gen game coming out in the same year. Definitely don't want to see next pokemon gen before holiday 2026. I bought Sword as my first pokemon game since Red 20 years earlier and was pretty disappointed at how mediocre Sword was compared with how cool I remember playing through Red was. I also got Legends Arceus which definitely seemed cooler but I still haven't played that far into it so I can't say for sure. All anyone wants Game Freak to do is allow themselves the development time to make an outstanding pokemon game and continue the evolvement of the series that Arceus and SV started.
