>>48354901We can know if there will be a new game next year by watching the pace of manga adventures:
We might be done with Gyms in volume 5, and start the League in volume 5 or 6. With everything we have to cover then, with the Tournament, Eternatus appearing, finding the Rusted weapons, awakening the wolves, the big fight, and whatever the royal twins do, guys, the writing is on the wall here, there's no way this arc ends in 2022. And before you panic over another B2W2 situation, let me bring up some things:
-The chapter where the third Kalos Pokédex was destroyed was published in November 2014, the same month ORAS came out. This suggests Kusaka already knew there would be no Z game.
-Chapter 38 was published in Shogaku 4's May 1998 issue. While I can't find a date, this page, and the fact chapter 1 is from an April issue (which we know was published on March 3), make me believe it was published on April. Why I'm bringing this up? Because in this chapter Red promises to be a Gym Leader, and we know from beta leaks Red was going to be a Gym Leader.
That first page I just linked also mentions that Kusaka planned the RGB arc was planned to last one year over 3 magazines with 36 chapters total to coincide with the release of Pokémon 2, and when that was delayed in the end of 1997, they rushedly expanded it. While the page doesn't cite sources (Kibou's PKSpedia is not a Wiki), that is consistent with the fact GS was originally intended to release on late March 1998.
