>>12177334They did it because its not a Japan-based region. You're starting in a new world - pun possibly intended - so they wanted it to feel fresh and new. I don't know if many others agree, but to me, after playing White long enough, the pokemon on the eastern edge of Unova felt like aliens, in the political sense of the word. Like they didn't belong. They truly felt like a crowd of foreigners. Some felt like they belonged, like Metapod and Dragonite, but then you had Combee and Vespiquen in the same grass patch as Audino and it just isn't right.
