>>40206877Do we disagree?
Following my logic within the context of the comment made, there's not enough of a pattern to establish a precedent of remakes on every even generation specifically as a guarantee or exception or even any indicator that Game Freak schedules with that in mind at all.
(Big aside on the topic of releasing next year)
Speaking more broadly on the topic, if you want to look at the patterns, there are a few anomalies involved across the board that make it hard to be sure that a remake is coming next year in particular even if we say that it's guaranteed for this Gen.
ORAS are the only remakes to release the year immediately after the new Gen is introduced whereas FRLG skipped a year, launching within the span of 2004 with Emerald, and HGSS/LGPE came the year after the updated versions released. You yourself noted that Gen 5 didn't get a remake as it got sequels to its original releases instead. The remake order is also not fully linear, as it goes Gen 1, 2, 3, then 1 again (This recognizing that Let's Go had a special purpose). Three of the four remakes released on even numbered years which also doesn't stand as a consistent or reliable pattern.
The skipped years in releases have no clear precedent of timing and might be more to do with a factor like install size of the release hardware.
Also worth noting, Gen 4 had a standard update, Gen 5 had a sequel, Gen 6 had nothing, and Gen 7 got a splintered update.
There are a few reasonable things that can happen next year, I think. We can get a pair of updates, we can get a remake of some sort, or we could get nothing until the year after, which would also make a sequel pair more feasible to add to the table of potential releases.
