>>35670594BW2 had a 4 year dev cycle, 4. Look it up. I'm not saying they can't do yearly releases like that, just that we know they haven't been doing dev cycles like they should since Gen 5 happened, SM and USUM released a year apart, and their Dev Cycle was 1 year. That's not ok. If they had started on SM durning XY, like they started BW during HGSS, ten SM would have had a larger Dev Cycle. Also, yearly releases are a new thing, not old. RS - E, 3 years, DP - Pt, 3 years, hell, it was 2 years from Emerald to FRLG, same with Platinum to HGSS, and BW to BW2 was like 2 1/2 years. A game on the Switch in 2018/2019 will be shit, regardless of what it is or where it takes place, because they aren't dedicating enough dev time to it, and sorry asshats like you will still buy it.