>>35080595It's not that I'm hopeless, but I'm just seeing it from a marketing point of view.
Let's take the only comparable releases:
Odyssey was first hinted at in 2016, announced in January 2017, released in October of the same year.
BOW (which had many pushbacks and delays) was hinted at in 2013, announced in 2014, pushed back for 2 years, formally re-announced during E3 2016 before, only in January 2017, being finally confirmed to be released in March 2017.
Notice how both got lot of hype and marketing-wise, it worked.
I can't see why Pokémon wouldn't do the same.