>>34789881>Mate, if they're saying it'll be 2018gonna need a source on that
>which means they started it at least mid-2015that's what you hope, but probably they started at early 2016, when SM was finished
>Gen VIII then pencilled in for '18 on Switch when they were told they were getting their dev kit.the president at TPC/gamefreak saw it and said he didn't have any hope for it and thought it would fail, thus probably working on it VERY lightly, waiting to see how the switch actually did in the market, before putting the project at full power
you have to take into account that they also are working on a new console, and not only that, but the first mainline game that it's gonna be on a console, and the first pokemon console game that Gamefreak is going to work for a console too.
I do believe if they were to release the game this year, it would end up being rushed as fuck
