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It's a weird year both in the global situation and the franchise's current state, it'd be a perfect time to do something entirely new yet low effort. Make it the year of spin-off revivals - the upcoming new snap, since rescue team got a remake mystery dungeon potentially has the interest internally for a new title, James Turner is high up enough now with other former Genius Sonority staff still at Game Freak that Orre isn't totally out of the question, ranger would be welcomed without the screen and wrist destroying circle drawing now that we're back to one screen with good motion controls, and we've got stuff like pokken getting a free trial so they could be trying to build interest in a sequel to that. It'd be a good way to hit everyone's nostalgia buttons and outsource to 3rd party devs while Game Freak is scrambling with the office move and covid and everything else going on globally then at the end of the year they can swoop in with a big main series release of either gen 9 or follow up on swsh's wild area multiplayer crap with a full on mmo that'll be the same level of mediocre we've been getting. I'm thinking mmo given industry trends plus they'd be hailed as heroes because people have wanted one forever, go is the closest we have to an official mmo but it's an outside game that isn't gonna sell consoles nor does it have the main series mechanics, they can just keep updating with small low effort paid dlc to add whatever they didn't have time or think of to include in the base game to deal with the large number of pokemon without another dexit controversy, flesh out empty areas with side quests, and address player feedback, all while buying time to put out gen 9 as a more polished switch end of life title so sales don't crash when the new console is still in its early days with a questionable future and the switch already has a huge install base like they did with gens 5 and 7.
