>>31313957Not to be rude, but it's not one game. And a pattern is already made, which you are trying to deny by dodging the fact that whenever possible, the "3rd" (in the case of BW, BW2) game was always in the same console family.
Besides, I wouldn't expect there to be enough time to make Z. As the only game company that actively tries to retcon all of it's game by remaking older generations, Pokemon/GameFreak walk a tightrope of publishing new games and remakes. A generation is usually 3 years. ORAS came about a year after XY. If Z had come a year after, it would mean it would take less than a year to make the next generation. It was the big Pokemon 20, so a new game was the priority. And Z kind of absorbed into Sun Moon anyways with Zygarde. I would bet had Sun Moon not existed, the Zygarde cell mechanic would have been used in Z.