I meant Pokemon's seventh gen, silly

The next mainline Pokémon game, obviously. Black / White 2 was easy to develop so most of their resources went into X/Y at that point. Ruby / Sapphire was a remake based on an already developed graphics engine. That's why we got annual games. The new games just take a year longer to develop, that's all.

Also, releasing the franchise annually is probably a bad idea in the long run. But who knows, maybe we'll get a surprise announcement in August.

Lol, yeah that makes more sense.

Yes but it was not a large project.

The next Pokemon games that are releasing, according to how they normally do it, would be X2 and Y2 or Z. So it would use the same engine as X/Y and ORAS. 

Pokemon is a much larger project and is relatively complex when you get into balancing the Pokemon (with each new gen)

My money is still on Cotton/Wool announcing soon.

After that, they'll release All Star Paks where you get a bunch of random All Stars from the past, like Joe Montana.  Pokemon will become a service rather than simply a game.  The future is NX!

First, Pokemon is not an annual series, though it does seem that way sometimes. Though Game Freak typically releases three(ish) games per Pokemon cycle (New Region, Remake, and Third Version), they still typically take more than a single year to release new games. Most notably, there was two year gap between Emerald and Diamond/Pearl, another two year wait for Platinum, and a 21 month wait between Black/White and their sequels.

Even if Game Freak is working on a relatively simple third version, aka Pokemon Z, they might as well wait until 2016 to release it. It would coincide with the 20th anniversary, give as much time as Emerald or Platinum took to make, and possibly spare resources for Generation 7 of the series.

Game Freak's next Pokemon generation will likely be a late 2017 release, four years after X/Y. That would likely be during or shortly after the launch of Nintendo's next generation handheld. If this is the case, Pokemon 7 could likely be a killer app for the NX's launch. It could have console features depending on how the NX works, though it would probably be primarily a handheld game.

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