>>32872377>>32872361>>32872254>>32872254canon in a franchise is everything that is part of the original source/work. The game IS THE CORE SERIES, and everything in this franchise revolve around the games.
Canon in Naruto, DBZ, GOT = the manga or books and everything that the mangaka/author creates and say it's canon
Canon in pokemon = the games and everything the games creators say it's canon
Satoshi said the manga is the story that approaches more the universe he created in the games, so anime = not canon.
It doesn't mean the anime is not an important part of the franchise, but it's not canon.
Manga is not canon as well, but it's aguable. As it has a different story, uncharacterized characters. OCs and different rules, etc... more likely the manga is not canon as well, but closest to the source than other serialized works in this franchise.
They never comented on generations anime or origins, but more likely it's "more canon"and faithful to the core series than the manga and anime.
Canon =\= official. The words have different meanings.
