>>35098116Of course these are the Japanese release dates. Almost everybody on here is using the Japanese release dates to determine gap years.
That's why others classified 2003 and 2011 as gap years, even though international versions of games were released that year. RS came out in 2002, no games came out in 2003, and FRLG and Emerald came out in 2004. (Despite RS being released internationally in 2003.) The same applies for 2011's gap year; BW were released in 2010, while BW2 were released in 2012.
For a long while now we've had 3 years of releases + a gap year.
2008 (Platinum) -> 2009 (HGSS) -> 2010 (BW)
2011 (gap year)
2012 (BW2) -> 2013 (XY) -> 2014 (ORAS)
2015 (gap year)
2016 (SM) -> 2017 (USUM)
Logic would indicate 2018 is the last of the 3 consecutive game years, while 2019 is the gap year. But of course, patterns break all of the time and the possibility of 2018 being a gap year is still evident.
But right now I am a 2018fag.
