>>37545169Of course. The reason it's significant however, is since HG/SS, Game Freak has hired new staff who would have grown up playing the original games, though the first instance was unintentional (senior staff working on HG/SS overheard the newbies talking about how cool it was to work on the games they first started playing pokémon with). Running the numbers places any potential hire squarely within the range to have started playing pokémon games with Sinnoh.
>>37545183Applications closed February 2018 anon. Plus what I said above and the fact they used Lucario's Gen IV official art, instead of Dream World/newer art is another anvil-sized hint Sinnoh remakes are on the way.