Pokemon Games Are Changing Forever, This is Why 

They either need to delay their games/DLC projects 6 months to a year or increase their staff if they genuinely care about the quality of the games they're churning out

Yes please. If 5 years is how long it takes for their games to be quality, I’d be down for that.

Remember when we have tons of spin offs between main releases? That's what made everything click in the 2D games. Games were not rushed to meet certain timetables for maximum income. Between generations there was a 3 to 4 years gap and in between we had Trozei games, we had Ranger games, Golosseum, Mystery Dungeon and much more with all of them doing their own thing with a high level of quality. Sure there were some outliers but things weren't rushed. Anime had their filler arcs to keep up with the time so it wasn't a competition so everything was on the same page for revenue the same happened with manga and other sources like the card game. So in my opinion outsourcing might not be as effective if they cannot go back to that mentality of older generations. Look at Metroid, people is eagerly wating for Prime 4 but Dread really made people happy with Prime 1 Remaster upping up the bar with the promose of Echoes and Corruption at later dates. 4 is getting the love and time it needs while we as consumers are happy with Dread and the Phazon trilogy in the meantime. Thats what's missing with pokemon nowadays as some IPs are just lost forever. I would love to see a Switch modern day Colosseum like Gale of Darkness or the original, I would love to see a Pokémon ranger modern day interpretation while we wait for the next gen but I guess that's asking to much sadly

I don't care if it takes 5 or 10 years for the next Pokemon game. I just want to have high quality Pokemon games

Gamefreak really needs more employees, they have only about half the amount of employees of xenoblade developers monolift soft despite xenoblade being a much nicher franchise compared to pokemon

If they plan on continuing with open worlds, monolithsoft is probably the way to go. The way they can make massive areas still look stunning on the switch is incredible.

I think this is the right thing to do. I think Legends Arceus and SV provide a decent enough base for Game Freak and company to work with and improve upon. Should it be Legend of Zelda level quality? Maybe not (though the amount of money they make they probably could afford to) but it should be a good enough product to make the games look and run well on the switch

Trust me, longtime fan here. Pokémon fans have been sad that game quality has been down since we left the 3DS, and by some accounts, much earlier, with the shift to 3D in Pokémon XY being a big suspect for the drop. We’ll gladly take a slower release schedule for games that don’t suck.

They need to spread out the main series games with spin-off titles in between years. That way, there is Pokemon content and enough time for a new generation to arrive.

I don't think letting a 3rd party company work on a main series Pokemon game is a good idea. Game Freak is capable of making amazing games, just look at Heart Gold and Soul Silver for example. They just need more time and an effort to make sure the game is of expected quality.

Honestly releasing things slower would be so much nicer for some consumers too, I just bought scarlet last week because I haven't had money. The last time I bought a game before that was sword and shield and it feels like you're falling behind in the community and franchise if you're not constantly up with the new games. And personally I don't always want to watch playthroughs and have them spoiled, I want to experience them myself at some point when there's money.

They need multiple studios if they want to continue releasing yearly. Give each studio 4-5 years development and release each year, just under a different studio, but with Gamefreaks/Nintendo’s formula. Year 1 - Studio 1 - Mainline Gen game Year 2 - Studio 2 - Remake game Year 3 - Studio 3 - Let’s Go style game Year 4 - Studio 4 - Legends Style game Year 5? - Studio 5 - Different spin-off game (Ultra beast game???) Year 6 - Studio 1 - Next main gen game This just my thoughts, that way we get a new fresh game every year with a 4-5 year development cycle

GameFreak needs more employees. A lot more. If they hired more people and spent more time, even if it was just 1 more year, they could give a fantastic game

There's a Japanese youtuber that reviews a sort of Japanese version of glass door. Game Freak has problems holding on to talent, it seems their core work force are incompetent and untalented and thus the extra work they create from their failures quickly chases away actually talented people. In all honesty, they need to wipe pretty much everyone except artists and start fresh, making sure in their hiring process that they get plenty of people with experience in coding modern video game experiences that still respect and understand the core of Pokemon.

I rather them take a longer time period to make sure the game is quality ready then multi releases per year. Pokken was amazing and needs an sequel Namco did an fantastic job there are many spin-offs they definitely can do Mystery Dungeon, Colosseum, Pokémon XD, etc

At least for generation 10. They should take some actual time. I know they won’t and it’s sad that the only thing I’ve come to expect over the years is not being able to enter buildings anymore💀

Pokemon needs to team up with Bandai Namco to help with the main line Pokemon Games. Combining Game Freak with Bandai Namco's assistance would make the games amazing

If they have an indie studio access to the Pokémon franchise like cadence of hyrule it could be so good

They should just make it an MMO and add content over time when it's tested and ready. Keep the playerbase strong by keeping them together in the same universe and have periodic events and daily, weekly quests in rotation.

They need to increase their staff. I mean by an absurd amount. They only have around 130-150 employees. It should be almost 10x that to fully realize the scope of the games they want to make in the time frame they want to make them in.

hopefully they're going to work more on the games, as others have said, better wait more for a more polished game than having a faster release with the worst bugs ever

Um bring all hands on deck. They need as many developers as possible on the main series. Legends was a step in the right direction. We saw what the series CAN be. Mystery Dungeon, Scarlet and Violet would have hit different if the team put more care into it. Deep in the recesses of its coding, there's an amazing game trying to come out.

I find the fact that it was basically stated that "Scarlet and Violet were heavily criticized for poor graphics, and other things" kinda funny considering, at least where I stand, graphics were one of the last things I've seen used as complaints for that. I largely only hear about the glitches and how broken it can get more than anything.

I'd like to add Mercury Steam to the list of 3rd party developers Nintendo has used. They made the absolutely amazing Samus Returns, and then followed that up with the greatest grand slam in Metroid history, Metroid Dread.

I sure do hope that Gen 10 would be more like the first six generations.

I can definitely see them slowing down production after Generation 10. I say that knowing they are going to want A Pokémon game released on there 30 year anniversary in 2026

Would be cool if pokemons have different expressive animations depending on their personality

they should make all the new games look like lets go

Pokémon's track record continues to prove money speaks louder than words; they aren't going to slow down, it's just all "talk." Remember, they are stuck in a loop of releasing a game to coincide with the anime. So, unless they can delay both the anime and game production, they are going to continue this loop and release subpar 3d games.

Honestly, if gen 10 takes a few more years so legends can flourish into its own series im all for it.

Or they could get the company that made Collesseum and XD Gale of Darkness to do it again.

They aren't gonna wait 5 years for the next generation Gen 10.

I'm happy with a main series release every 3 years, with DLC in the first or second year of a game's cycle.

My question is what kind of games could we expect? And Game freak could take advantage of the spin off games to try out new mechanics/features that they may want to put in the next main game.

Let’s face it, they can’t stop since it’s really about the merchandising. No new games, no new Pokémon to make cards, toys, etc on.

God i would love a Pokemon Warriors game so much, you can't even imagine.

Honestly they just need to go back to basics. It seems like all they care about now is the graphics. Let me make one thing very clear: "Good" graphics DO NOT = good game, and "bad" graphics DOESN'T mean it's a bad game. I think the peak of Pokémon happened in Gen 6. All the abilities, moves, items & Pokémon were there, it wasn't as hand-holdy like the new ones (example: Handing you the box legendary to use AND also got rid of HMs). I know everyone says gen 6 is too easy, but you had the exp share on. Turn it off and the game suddenly becomes much harder. Gen 6 introduced a new type for us as well, we got 2 starters, it had the best gimmick with Mega Evolution, it had character customization, and the graphics looked fine to me. Honestly, it could of had sprites and I wouldn't care. Sometimes I wish they would go back to using sprites instead of 3D models. Sure people would complain at first, but imagine a new Pokémon game with ZERO glaring issues upon release. And as much as I hate to say it, we need HMs back. Or a key item that can only be used after a certain amount of badges so it doesn't take up a move slot. Pokémon games before had you doing important stuff like making new discoveries and coming across some psychotic team trying to take over the world or whatever and you had to stop them. Nowadays, they have you doing dumb shit like going to school and taking pictures. Lastly, is it just me, or do some of these new Pokemon...not even look like Pokemon? And the names....the puns are so cringy it hurts.

I was kinda hoping/wondering if this would happen. I’ve seen a lot of people talk about how they think black and white, or let’s go pichu and marill games might happen, and considering after black and white gen 6 remakes will be next and will need a lot of improvements, this makes sense

I don't know about this but this is probably a fair trade so not only just The Pokemon Company manage to having more time to making the new generation of the game and researchs but also Pokemon Horizon Anime can able to getting through the entire journey of Liko and Roy at Paldea and Galar region since the latter's worldbuilding was still jot yet fully seen because of Ash decided to traveling the entire previous regions that he visited.

If Pokemon wants to make the biggest game ever they need to follow this plan. First off, instead of coming out with a new region they need to build off of what they have by making an actual multi-region game. If they made a game that even just connected 2-4 regions together that had a new story the success would be unimaginable. Like if they conjoined Kalos and Unova or Kanto and Galar. Even just something small like that would be wildly successful and it would be an amazing switch up for literally every person that has ever played a Pokemon game before

They honestly don’t even have to slow down. Just use their billions of dollars to hire more people and make a better product.

I think they FINALLY reached that point where they realize they cant make a Generation of higher Quality than Scarlet & Violet with and Open World, Fully 3D Graphics, Overworld Pokemon, and multiple paths forward unless they take the time they USED TO TAKE for releases before Pokemon X&Y released. Ill believe it if I NEVER hear a peep about a new Pokemon game for the next 3 years, and God, GOD I hope this rumor is true. No more Pokemon. Let it build hype the organic way. Through a long lasting wait period. I wanna pop like Mario RPG and Bayonetta 3 Fans did when those were announced.

BGA style for us oldies would to the job :)

I would love a pokemon colloseum sequel or prequel or more legends games . Honestly legends was a huge step forward if they go that path

A lot of people didnt like BD/SP and I get why, but I do really think the idea of having Game Freak develop the new games while a 3rd party studio works on the remakes is a really good idea, just need to find a better 3rd party dev than ILCA

Scarlet and violet isn’t nearly as bad as people make it out to be and I’ve played every game.

Shoutout to all my OG fans that are still waiting on Pokémon Colosseum 2💀💀💀

They should make more pixel RPGs as well to fill in the time between games, Pokémon’s gone 3D but there’s still a huge market for those types of games that I’m kinda surprised they haven’t taken the route of. They did remake Diamond and Pearl with a new art style that seems almost reminiscent of other creature collectors, and that might have worked had the game not been so faithful to an already flawed game.

Pokémon needs to go back to being Pokémon where it is a Japanese video games series as it was, even with the anime graphics. Time and money should have been spent on fixing the games and have plenty of needed content before release. No paid DLC, and no internet patches. DEI hires and censors should be fired, and have talented people and passionate fans working on the games.

If monolith would work on the next Pokémon game it would be 100% peak. No doubt

One thing that really annoying me about Scarlett and violet is that the majority of the time you would just be wearing the school I think for the sake of adventuring outside school travelling around the region on the entire area like it's town it's routes and it's open area you should have the option to wear casual clothes when you just a venturing or whatever task you are doing in game I hope this is the implementing in the next game

Honestly, I just want enough time to enjoy SV, they are the most fun I had in pokemon since USUM, if they want to take their time, they can do that and I’ll enjoy SV

i would not be able to contain my excitement if spike chunsoft made a mainline pokemon game

If the game quality is amazing, it doesn’t matter how long I have to wait for a new game

2:40 "One name stands above the rest!" Me: Genuis Sonori- "Koei Techmo!"

I dont think theyre slowing releases imo. I dont mean in a bad way i from my perspective it seemed like they would hire more developers rather than sliw down

Imagine a Pokémon game where you control the Pokémon when you battle that would be different and more engaging

If this is true, hopefully that means they're going to devote all their time to making the games as good as they can be, rather than doing a rushed job that continues to disgrace the franchise's reputation.

dude imagine an AI integrated pokemon game in which each trainer or npc has an existence of their own..free will.. and free choices.. you can even talk to people or interact with pokemons using a microphone.. pokemons have AI integrated free will to do things on their own like the real ones in anime

They seriously need to do this. I bought the game a few weeks ago and started it this week. It is still buggy. Even diamz and Pearl was much better

I’m fine with the wait just release the old games on the switch I’m not understanding why we still don’t have that

I wouldn't mind waiting a few years for new Pokemon games. More time to fully test and finish the games before release would be great.

5 to 8 i can wait if it means better quality

For a second I was worried this would be something worse.

I PRAYED FOR DAYS LIKE THIS

I would love a Pokemon Warriors Or a Sequel to Pokemon Conquest, I actuall liked Pokemon Conquest as a Side game!

I wouldn't mind them giving a 3rd Party Company a license to make a Main Series Game! Honestly! I wish the Main Series would be handle by some other Companies who knows making 3D Games better! Just look at Pokemon Snap and Pokken Tournament other Spin Off Game on Nintendo Switch! They made the Pokemon Series more lively in their Graphics and with Voice Acting. Also Mobile Spin Offs like Pokemon Masters can bring Pokemon more lively as well! I ssay! Let other Companies handle Gen 10! 😄

Everything else has gone ahead of Pokémon over time in gaming.

The next Pokemon game can easily be made in three years in the hands of a developer that knows what it's doing. They need to stick to an engine and optimize it for the future. That's exactly what they did in the 3DS era.

If there's choice between shorter wait times between releases or longer waits but better quality? I'd go with the latter rather than the former.

Last night my game just stuck me at the end of a raid indefinitely after I had turned autosave off to ensure my shiny Eevee became Umbreon, fully EV trained it, leveled 2 mons to 80*, and grinded like 30 steel shards. Raids were supposed to be fixed in MARCH

I'm not gonna lie, I really want to see a Pokemon Ranger spin off game on the switch that has a long & memorable story-line that I can get invested in.

Im still sad gen 4 didn't get a remake like 3. Maybe when it comes around to re-remakes, we will get a non-chibi one.

It’s better to slow it down than rush and have tons of glitches. Definitely worth waiting for. And this way you can also save up. With the way new games are priced now it’s hard to buy anything anymore. $60 and up is not right. I remember when games came out you could pay anywhere between $5 to $30 and now it’s double that and more depending on the game. What I really hope is that Pokémon will release all of the previous games for the switch. I would love to play Fire Red, Leaf Green, Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, all of the Mystery Dungeon versions, Pokémon Pinball, basically all of the Gameboy Advance that you can’t find anymore.

Im perfectly fine if we get a bunch of spin-offs while a mainline one takes more years to be worked

Yeah, I think Koei worked with Nintendo on Three Houses as well, which would be more of an ideal cooperation. As in, a Pokémon game where a lot of the 3d (I presume) would be worked on by Koei. Though a Pokémon Conquest Warriors would get 100 bucks out of me... no comment.

Perfect opportunity for them to reintroduce the spinoffs(Ranger and Orre) to the newer audiences and for them to go find the people of Genius Sonority and create another 3D small spinoff Project (when compared to the Mainline) that can occupied and give them enough time to put out a good Mainline product.

Koei Tecmo developed Pokémon Conquest, which is one of the better spin offs in my option. It would be great to see them get to make another game in a similar style but on the Nintendo switch.

Please do this. They need more time between games

We need a pokken tournament level graphics and gameplay for the next mainline game, especially if they want to go for the whole open-world genre like scarlet and violet.They need to update the graphics and combat system.

Instead of making new pokémon games with new pokémon that more than half of it being forgotten on next generation, they could just make a new revamp of the main line games, kinda of they did with Pokémon Legends Arceus, but more polished and with better animation (and maybe a semi-real time battle mechanic?)

I just want them to make another legends game

I'm not too into most of the new Pokemon games on the switch for obvious reasons, so i'm taking the time to go back and play the ones on the DS that I never got to play. Black & White/2 and Ultra Sun/moon. I am very excited for these.

If it takes 5 years between game generation, but, in exchange, the games are actually made right and don't have severe glitches, I would be fine with that.

Cant wait for Koei Tecmo to make Every Pokemon vs 1 Billion Lions (Thats a Lot of Lions) Warriors

Pokémon Warriors: Let me yeet an army of Dunsparce.

I'm hoping they make a sequel to or remake of Conquest and maybe the Colosseum games can get the same treatment.

Honestly they got to slow down gradually to give games we can enjoy until the release of the next one, now with scarlet we can’t wait 5 years, if they give us a Legend series pokemon or a second DLC we could btw

they can make more Legends type games, and SV DLC and BW remakes in the meantime. they should take as many years as they need to put out a quality core series game.

I feel like pokémon battles should be like pokken tournaments.

Thank god. I love Pokémon and all but the quality and obviously cut corners are a massive problem. I like them releasing so many games but I definitely prefer good quality not quantity

It's crazy that Game Freak looked at Scarlet/Violet and let it release in the state that it's in. Maybe 3d isn't the way to go. I think a stylized pixelated Pokemon Game would be really cool. Take the most successful elements from every game, and expand on it from there. I.e. Pokemon following behind the player, Mega evolution, Shiny sparkle, pokemon appearing outside of battle, animated pokemon in battle like BW/B2W2...

to me at least i would make the production window larger meaning more development time duh but when the game is in beta form and playable to a extent i would fly out some well know people from the community honestly to play test it for quality on a casual player stand point aswell as a adult/competitive player view mainly looking into the mechanics of the game get feedback talk about it with the team and take away knowledge from the experience to further better the game aswell as future projects now while that probably sounds all good in theory making it happen is something different but it would at least to me bring some freshness to the game that it haven't had in a long time depending how you look at the track record 5 years gladly would wait for a game honestly any game i would rather wait for a well developed game even if it does have some bugs every game does in the start then a game made in a year straining the devs company and player base for a lukewarm gaming experience due to time restraints and other unknown factors it doesn't have to look amazing "personally" but has to feel amazing feel enveloped into the story and the world of the game with correct pacing and progression through the game on the story end if you read this thanks but you probably wasted 20 minutes at my poor views on this

I hope that when gen 10 is announced the legendary trio aren’t dragon types. While I’m fine with dragon types in fact they’re one of my favorites alongside ghost steel fire and electric, I think it’s becoming a bit overwhelming with how many there are: the Tao trio, the creation trio, eternetes and the new legendaries being koridon and miridon, I think a better choice would be a ghost and fire, and a dark and ice golem like Pokémon it worked for golett and golurk why not try that

I think we can all agree that quality is better than quantity in this case....

Scarlet and violet was S tier in my opinion, only issue was graphical and the battle speed

I'm okay with this as long we have new Spinoff games like PMD.

I honestly worried for a simple reason: ILCA seemed as incompetent as GameFreak back in late 2021. They need to trust good companies.

I am cool with it as long as if there is more content if it is just the same game with same type of gyms and only better quality that would suck

Koei Tecmo made also Pokemon Conquest btw