>>49211325My bet is somewhere a lot closer to Japan and likely somewhere that didn't get as fucked sideways as Italy did by covid. That they'll likely be looking to put Hisuian pokémon into the next game, to allow them to join the core series and it makes more sense to me to make the next region somewhere close to Hisui/Sinnoh that the Hisuian variants could migrate to and continue to thrive in, than to drive them all the way to PokéEurope (remembering that U. Zoroark was likely driven across PokéEuope to PokéJapan in the first place, before dying out and returning as a Hisuian variant).
They put Meltan/Melmetal in the first game with core mechanics they developed after debuting it, I can't see them not doing similar with the Hisuian variants. The only question is can /vp/ look past their ebin assumptions about the next region (before Gen VIII got revealed, people were stanning fake leaks claiming Italy was the region chosen) and accept Covid ruled out most of the western world as an option when they got fucked with it so badly.
And if scuttlebutt is to be believed, the Professor in Legends hints about the next region at the end anyway, when he claims he's going off to start documenting it so we're going to have a better idea at the end of the month. I doubt Eclipse is still getting info off Khu like he was at the start and I doubt Khu said or had the info what the next region was going o be by then, so I'd say this is all her own work and biases.
