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I'd been waiting a lot, but got nothing. Why?
I'm personally hoping for X2Y2 rather than Z version. Just one version is kinda boring to me. :(
There are a lot of possible reason why we haven't heard of a new main series game:
- they don't want it to become the CoD of Nintendo
- while XY and ORAS were developed at about the same time, the next games aren't
- the engine has to be optimized for the New 3DS (the next games could even be N3DS exclusives)
- there are other Pokemon games that are prioritized at the moment
- ORAS is given more than a year to shine (unlike X and Y who got abandoned after only one year)
I guess GF wants to take a break. Who knows?
Interestingly, this will be the first year since 1997 to not see a main series release in any country:
1996: Red/Green (JP), Blue (JP)
1997: None
1998: Red/Blue, Yellow (JP)
1999: Yellow, Gold/Silver (JP)
2000: Gold/Silver, Crystal (JP)
2001: Crystal
2002: Ruby/Sapphire (JP)
2003: Ruby/Sapphire
2004: FireRed/LeafGreen, Emerald (JP)
2005: Emerald
2006: Diamond/Pearl (JP)
2007: Diamond/Pearl
2008: Platinum (JP)
2009: Platinum, HeartGold/SoulSilver (JP)
2010: HeartGold/SoulSilver, Black/White (JP)
2011: Black/White
2012: Black 2/White 2
2013: X/Y
2014: OmegaRuby/AlphaSapphire
2015: None
Actually, another thought occurred to me...what if they're postponing a main series release this year to bring more attention to the new PMD game that is coming out? I think it's worth considering that if a new main series game were to be announced it would completely overshadow the new PMD. They've gotta sell it.
There are a lot of possible reason why we haven't heard of a new main series game:
- they don't want it to become the CoD of Nintendo
- while XY and ORAS were developed at about the same time, the next games aren't
- the engine has to be optimized for the New 3DS (the next games could even be N3DS exclusives)
- there are other Pokemon games that are prioritized at the moment
- ORAS is given more than a year to shine (unlike X and Y who got abandoned after only one year)
Interesting (I think it would help to mark the US releases though, as well as distinguish regional releases that share a year, like how Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen were both released in Japan and the United States during the year of 2004, except both territories had a different month of release).
Regarding the "quickness of releases", I feel compelled to go by the US dates for everything past Pokemon Platinum to show the "annualization", although the Japanese/worldwide releases would probably be better fits (since Japan is usually the first-release region, anyway, and the international release dates just come about as a byproduct/artifact of the localization process).
As the others pointed out, the lack of a core series game coming out this year will help Super Mystery Dungeon sell more copies since that appears to be the game of focus, and it'll also help OR/AS be relevant for a bit longer considering how late it was in 2014 when those games came out.