>>34999076Don't underestimate the Pokemon community's entitlement and impatience. There will be a lot of hate targeted at Nintendo if they don't announce Gen VIII for this year.
>>34999094XY, SM, and USUM were all revealed during special Pokemon Directs that were announced a day before. It's a pattern at this point that the starting games of each gen are announced in a special Direct.
People thought we would get an announcement on Pokemon Day because one of those Directs (the SM one) just happened to be uploaded on Pokemon Day.
It certainly didn't help that sensationalist PokeTubers hyped up Pokemon Day with very little basis to do so.
As for E3, no main series game is actually announced at E3, but we had 3 instances of Pokemon games getting coverage during Nintendo's E3 treehouses. SM (2013), ORAS (2014), and SM (2016).
But really, my comment about E3 was pointed to OP, because they brought E3 up first.
