>>56404031I'm not really sure that's the path they're following.
For languages they just went with the most obvious group: the top 5 European languages and eventually the languages of neighbouring East Asian countries that are also rich.
For regions they've chosen iconic landmarks well known by the Japanese after leaving Japan in gen V.
>NYC>Paris>Hawaii(bigger maps)
>UK>SpainI don't think there's a specific connection between localization languages and playable regions.
I think Italy is an obvious choice following this trend. It has many iconic landmarks, it's got an interesting geography being a peninsula + a couple of islands, with mountains in the middle and large mountains up north with some lakes.
Germany has fewer iconic landmarks and it's mostly flat besides the southern region. The Ruhr could make for a good network of towns and cities, with Munich and Berlin being additional hubs, but it seems like a rather boring set up on its own and it'd be weird to include the North Sea without including all of Denmark. So I'd say do West Germany + Netherlands, or North Germany + Denmark (and maybe southern Sweden), or South Germany + Switzerland and maybe northern Italy if that doesn't make it to the Italy game. The Japanese love Germany but I find it hard to adapt Germany into a Pokemon game given its geography.
>Canada and Australia.Australia sure, but Canada is probably never happening. They'd just pick another American city instead.
>China and South KoreaSeriously doubt.
>>56404060They really can't win.
Pick Taiwan and China will be butthurt about it. Pick mainland China and the Japanese will be upset about it.
I think they could go for a Hong Kong + Macau + neighbouring cities type of thing, but it'd be rather funny considering they don't really translate pokemon names for the Cantonese market anymore. Hong Kong people are a bit disappointed they have to use the Mandarin-based names now.
