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100 would be an adequate amount, I think. As mentioned already, I'd much rather have a smaller number of well-designed, original Pokemon than 200+ of average quality.
Yeah, 300 Pokemons is way too much, and it's going to make the "catch 'em all" theme nearly impossible.
First of all "catch 'em all" wasn't even the slogan for the games in Japan. So they probably don't have that same hang up in Japan.
Secondly, unless they flat out stop introducing Pokemon we're going to get to that point eventually. It's unavoidable.
and thirdly. The GTS in XY made this a totally trivial concern. I could get my hands on a Pokemon I'd never even seen just for trading a breeded starter or something. Pokemon Bank makes it even more trivial since you have easy access to your old Pokemon. Although I do think they should include some way to fill your pokedex using Pokemon Bank instead of having to move the Pokemon into your game. That way your Pokemon Bank sort of becomes your "collection" throughout the whole series and "catching em all" becomes more of an inter-generational task rather than something tied to a specific generation. (although that should probably be a post-game feature)
I really can't see them introducing more than 100 new Pokemon. I guess 100 would be a nice figure for the 20th anniversary, but the majority of the Pokedex will surely consist of Pokemon from gens I-VI. If I had to say myself then I'd guess around 60-70 new Pokemon with 100 being just a possibility.
Having 70 in Kalos was a backlash from hell. So many people got angry because of it. They are going back to the simple designs, there is no reason there should be less than 100 pokemon. Especially with how much hate Kalos games got because of it.
60/70 is a TERRIBLE number.
Can someone define what constitutes a "complicated" design, even? I keep seeing this being thrown about here and there, but I'm not really sure what people's definition of complicated as it relates to a Pokemon's design.
Even numbered generations tended to introduce less Pokemon than the odd numbered generations so I'm likely expecting a lot of new Pokemon. Somewhere around 130 would be a solid number.