>>49521064Gen 9 isn't this year.
>inb4 patternThe pattern is broken and has never been consistent. Eleven months ago no one knew Legend Arceus was a thing, yet you claim to know everything after. Patterns would have dictated the gap to make gens 4 and 5 not exist.
Pokemon is not releasing five titles in twelve months. That HURTS business via cannibalization of sales. You can say they want to push at kids to milk their profits, but the reality is the same profits are to be made in a hypothetical 2022 OR 2023 release for gen nine. The only thing hurting their wallets would be to hurt the sales for Legends. Legends is their new direction and they want it to succeed. It is NOT a spin-off, and they stated it’s their new era for the main games. Why WOULDN’T it get DLC, is what I wanna know. Especially if SNAP did. DLC fills in the November timeframe easily and gets the job done handsomely to push physical console sales, as we have seen in 2020 SwSh DLC, even going against the COVID reasoning predictions that it would have flopped.
They’re not going to release three different engines in a year. We joke about their rushing, but this is a business. Cannibalism is a real thing. They needed BDSP and Legends close to one another, ideally simultaneous but Legends needed some extra time. They did this because it’s Sinnoh remake season and they wouldn’t linger on Sinnoh for years on end. It’s not that they suddenly needed room for a pokemon day announcement, it’s that Legends NEEDED to be announced at the 25th anniversary, and shipping it over a year later would turn normies off. Announcing a brand new generation a month later would crush the investment they’ve poured into Legends.
And no, I am not saying any of this out of spite. This franchise IS going to hell, but understanding how and when it will do so is important. Blind doom posting can also be schizophrenic.
