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which is why in most game history things on Wikis, they cite the first teasers rather than the date something was actually confirmed. (they don't.) the lack of answers is half of the reason this thread is a shitshow. confirmation is more important than teasing because not every person participates in these weird circlejerks. they don't sit around pulling things out of their heads and asses, and more than likely they don't even know it exists either. what they do notice is tangible confirmation.Questions vs. answers doesn't really matter, what matters is new information. And if you're just confirming something that was already brought up earlier, then you're not giving out as much information as if you give information about something new. Most of the discussion value behind the new Zygarde forms came when it was first hinted at, because that got people thinking about what it is and what future games might have. The only thing CoroCoro added to the discussion value was the new forms they revealed, just confirming that it's a Zygarde doesn't promote discussion, if anything it reduces it because it narrows down the possibilities of what it could be.
my apologies for missing that.I just said in my last post that the yearly release schedule has nothing to do with my point. I'm not looking at how far apart one game is from the next game, I'm looking at the news cycle of singular games, when a new game is hinted at, when it's announced, and when it's released. And the average news cycle is usually a game announcement 2 or 3 months after it's first hinted, and the game is released 4-6 months after it's announced. The yearly release schedule is irrelevant because we already have a game hint, if they wanted to wait 2 whole years for the next game that's fine, but they had to have planned the Zygarde reveal around that and so it doesn't make much sense to start teasing the game in July 2015 for a game that's not even coming out in the next year, people will start to lose interest if they're starved of information for too long.
even still: Munchlax was revealed in 2004. Generation IV started in 2006 in Japan. Hell, the development of generation IV was revealed in Q4 2004 and actually came out two years later. Kecleon, Wailmer, and Azurill were revealed in March 2001. Generation III was released November 2002 (in Japan). Marril and Snubbull were teased in M01, about a year and a half prior to the release of Gold and Crystal. Generation V and VI are more or less outliers when it comes to news speed, especially V.