Paatar on 25 July 2015
| Salnax said: 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. |
Hence my statemenet in the OT, "Pokemon is normally annual" I did not say it WAS. I said it was NORMALLY. Which does NOT mean all the time.
I said keep it civil. This is a speculation thread, not a "You are wrong here and wrong there and this is that and that is this and I know what they are doing" kind of thread.
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