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Official Pokémon Sword and Shield speculation thread (Updated June 5th, 2019)

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I think let's go games are the new thing for gap year, it only took like 2 years to make let's go with a small team.
 
Oriden said:
Hey it's alright, the series is still growing and these are just the first steps, remember. =3 They'll work on it, it'll just take some more time to get there.


...you are not... making any sense, honestly.
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divorced, beheaded, died
divorced, beheaded, survived

Here's an example of a Rhyme. Not Pokemon related, I'm just showing you of how the pattern of what I'm pointing at works. You can either take it or leave it. Some people can see it and some people just can't.
 
RileyXY1 said:
I think that there will still be gap years. You can't expect GF to release a Pokemon game every year, especially considering they occasionally do other projects.
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I think let's go was the gap year tbh, like i said - it only took 2 years to make with a SMALL team. (was it like 40?)
i don't expect it to be every year but it's gonna fill in sometimes
 
Champion Cynthia said:
divorced, beheaded, died
divorced, beheaded, survived

Here's an example of a Rhyme. Not Pokemon related, I'm just showing you of how the pattern of what I'm pointing at works. You can either take it or leave it. Some people can see it and some people just can't.
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...I know what a rhyme is- although that is an extremely disturbing one, so thank you for that. I just don't understand what the hell you're talking about.
 
Champion Cynthia said:
I was referring to the Nursery Rhymes within the channel, and how it showcased London before Gen 8 was finally revealed.
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It's called Ryme City in the game, too, which was first came out in 2016. The initial reveal was in 2013. For this to be an intentional hint, that would mean that they were planning to allude to the games of Gen 8 through rhymes before they were even done with Gen 6, and that they'd be expecting fans to make a connection between a city name and a tweet on a social media account years later. That is an insanely long game to play.

Champion Cynthia said:
I somehow see this as a sort of Rhyming game. Although Rhymes do change words and themes, I'm jusafst giving you the hints of what we would most likely expect.
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Those games don't even rhyme in English, and I doubt a Japanese-based company would base things on English rhymes.
 
Oriden said:
...I know what a rhyme is- although that is an extremely disturbing one, so thank you for that. I just don't understand what the hell you're talking about.
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That rhyme is to do with King Henry the VIII.

I'm just saying how Gen 5 and Gen 7 seems similar to have sequals, whilst Gen 6 has a remake. Excluding Let's Go of course.
 
Minnale101 said:
People need to realize. Let’s go was completely 90% outsourced to different studios to make. Check the credits of game. Game freak gave the ideas but they didn’t physically make it. It was group effort and I’m sure they do that more often than not
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90%? It's a giant list of people, but out of the ones I've checked, only Ryouta Takeuchi (library tool programming lead) and Tomoya Hasegawa (catch programming) are new to Game Freak, which doesn't mean that they haven't been working on Sword/Shield as well.
 
Oh god please no more "But it is [Blank]'s 00th Anniversary!" before the actual anniversary year. The 20th anniversary celebrations had gone on for a few years before and after the actual 20th anniversary. It just makes the actual anniversary feel less special when everything is a commemoration and celebration all the time.
 
Well... my main point is that their still will be gap years that we don't get games, because now with the Switch, i think we cannot expect Gamefreak too poop out new generations every 3 years, since the Switch is a complexer console than the Handheld games ever were, especially if we want Gamefreak to go push their own and the games limits even further, taking into consideration that both Oddysey and BOTW took 5 year to produce.

This is why i expect 2020 as a gap year. 2021 is gonna give us a remake and then 2022 is gonna give us a Lets Go game (Or the other way around) and then in 2023 we get a new generation with a gap year in 2024.
 
The number 1 thing we should know is...

We don't know Game Freak, so how we know what they're going to do next?
 
dvor said:
I think let's go was the gap year tbh, like i said - it only took 2 years to make with a SMALL team. (was it like 40?)
i don't expect it to be every year but it's gonna fill in sometimes
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Agreed.
Every generation apart from the first has always had a gap year, and every gap year has always had what I would call a Significant spin off game.

Going by Japan releases, Gen 2's gap was 2001, Gen 3 = 2005 (2003 technically didnt but FRLG was Jan 2004), Gen 4 = 2007, Gen 5 = 2011, Gen 6 = 2015 and Gen 7...

However, in 2005, we did get the first every Mystery Dungeon games, in 2007 we got the 2nd instalment of these games, 2011 is a bit iffy, but we did get Rumble Blast, unlike the freemium rumble this was a full game with a physical release. Then 2015 we got Super Mystery dungeon.

I believe they then decided to bring these significant fillers more in house, and hence LGPE was born in 2018 (the Gen 7 filler) and as @Minnale101 stated, most of the work wasn't actually done by Game Freak but was outsourced.

You'll recall the initial confusion from GameFreak as well about whether or not to consider LGPE as mainseries or sideseries.

So really the only pure gap year with no Pokemon whatsoever was 2001, between Gen 2 and Gen 3, but we know initially they only planned 2 generations, and Gen 3 only came about because of Pokemania. (In a unique quirk, Gen 3 remakes weren't initially planned either, only 1 and 2, but came about due to the high fan demand).

TLDR; Let's Go Games/years should be considered gaps/breaks just as Mystery Dungeon were
 
nickdt said:
Well... my main point is that their still will be gap years that we don't get games, because now with the Switch, i think we cannot expect Gamefreak too poop out new generations every 3 years, since the Switch is a complexer console than the Handheld games ever were.

This is why i expect 2020. 2021 is gonna give us a remake and then 2022 is gonna give us a Lets Go game (Or the other way around) and then in 2023 we get a new generation with a gap year in 2024.
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I could see that schedule being likely- Let's Go also has a shorter development time than most games, so it coming before the Gen 4 remake seems quite plausible.

Not to go the whole "more time = better game" route, but I think I would like to see Sinnoh be given more time because I would much prefer to see it be given the "bigger map" treatment that we are kind of expecting from Sword and Shield... and... not... be... tiny grid map Sinnoh in 3D like how LGPE wound up. Because wouldn't that be hella disappointing.
 
Oriden said:
I could see that schedule being likely- Let's Go also has a shorter development time than most games, so it coming before the Gen 4 remake seems quite plausible.

Not to go the whole "more time = better game" route, but I think I would like to see Sinnoh be given more time because I would much prefer to see it be given the "bigger map" treatment that we are kind of expecting from Sword and Shield... and... not... be... tiny grid map Sinnoh in 3D like how LGPE wound up. Because wouldn't that be hella disappointing.
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Imagine a new pokemon direct is announced next year and they announce let's go johto. Then imagine our faces...
 
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