Ah, this old chestnut... this topic comes up multiple times every generation. =p At any rate, Pokemon games will continue to be made for a long time, fairly sure. After all, Pokemon = $$$, and Game Freak and Nintendo are businesses that like money - ergo, more games will be made. Even the spinoff series are profitable.I'd... take that with far less than a grain of salt - ask your cousin where this info comes from, because given the sales of all the main games, especially B/W which had record sales in Japan alone and will easily sell millions of copies in the US/Europe/Australia... I honestly cannot see how they are losing money. Pokemon is one of the best selling series out there so if Game Freak was losing money than many other franchises would have gone bankrupt long ago. Heck even Sonic continues and the problems their games had for a good while are well known. Matter of opinion, and the sales disagree with that given they're reportedly record-makers. =p
This. And
why would you cancel a series right after a profitable
rebirth? Not only that, BW are being mentioned as shattering sales records. And Pokemon is the
second-best-selling videogame franchise, superseded only by the
Super Mario franchise. Nintendo and Game Freak would be insane to stop now.
Plus, why would you stop at such an almost-but-not-quite-there number such as 64
9? I really wish they had added one more Pokemon in the Unova PokeDex; it slightly irks me that we're extremely close to a nice, divisible-by-10 number like 650. >_>
I hope
Pokemon continues for a
long time to come... The only thing I'm worried about is whether they'll stop at 1000. This is mainly due to Arceus's PokeDex entry in
Diamond Version:
It is described in mythology as the Pokémon that shaped the universe with its 1,000 arms.
For some reason, I think Arceus designated "one arm per Pokemon created", and we're gradually getting closer to 1000 per Generation. We're halfway there with the release of Generation 5. 1000 is also a "nice, round, divisible-by-10" number, and 1000+ Pokemon would be daunting. Personally, I'd like Pokemon to continue for a
long time to come, regardless of the Pokemon count. Increases in the Pokedex make attaining the title of Pokemon Master (which is, IMO, catching all existing/known Pokemon according to the current National PokeDex) that much more of a respectable feat.
Even if we do reach 1000 Pokemon and the franchise happens to stop there, there will
always be more Pokemon to discover, catch, and train, regardless of the franchise's state. ;)