What to expect from the Last Generation

[Quetsol Melt]

Hello to all : ) Well today I was thinking about Future Pokémon Generations and I thought to myself for all we know Pokémon might be ending in a couple Generations so the question is will Game Freak go out with a bang and finish with a bunch of Pokémon? Will we still get new games even though no New Pokémon will no longer be made? What graphical improvements will we get not from any future systems but from the games themselves?
These things and so much more feel free to give me your feedback on this topic I'd like to see what everyone thinks : )

 

[sonic10158]

20+ years from now, they could maybe have ALL the regions on one game for one gigantic adventure.


Also, multiple save files. I don't want to lose my favorite pokemon if i'm itching for replaying the game and i don't have time to trade over 300+ pokemon

 

[Mitchman]

Probably whatever we've come to expect. I don't see em ending Pokemon in a bang, I just expect em to do a normal old gen and come out with an ending statement. Maybe some years down the line they'll follow up to it in one final way with everything in one game, but that's it.

 

[Jukain]

It is plain to see that the majority of the reason people even get new gens in the first place is because they always have a new batch of pokemon. Heck, even if it isn't a new gen, people still expect new pokemon. The franchise could possibly still last without new pokes, although I would have to wonder what they would do in place of it. Then again, I question whether or not they can invent new features every gen, and they do it anyway. As for the rest, honestly, we have no precedent to go off of. I know of no really big franchise that just stopped making games past a certain number. I do believe there has to be a point at which there can be no more new pokemon since the number has gotten so high as it is that I tend to forget names way too often. I do not believe it will mean the end of the franchise, because I still think something could be done with it other than that. It's very rare that a franchise even has a planned end, so to speak.

 

[Rare Candy]

I don't think Pokemon will end when GameFreak wants. I think there will be the time after some years, that not many people will play Pokemon and they see that Pokemon games aren't worth making anymore, and quietly stop.

 

[Blue Dragon]

I personally don't think Pokemon will ever end and the reason is it's much like the Mario games. Pokemon has become one of the mascots for Nintendo and therefore will not likely ever stop unless Nintendo goes to pot. What I think GameFreak might do if the Pokedex gets too bulky is to keep making the same type of games, but rather than introducing new Pokemon focus more so on the story and features.

In other words they would probably just keep tweaking what they've already got instead of escalating the number Pokemon.

 

[Matt_2_Sky]

I think pokemon has the ability to last as long as Mario or any other top Nintendo franchise. However, if there is a rival to pokemon which totally changes everything we know about monster battling games and it become popular then pokemon could become one of those franchises that dies slowly. But as long as it keep earning billions, Nintendo will do everything in their power to keep it going.

 

[ZACH ATTACK]

I don't think Pokemon will end until there are no fans. They will figure something out. Even just redoing the same regions over every generation (the literal 25 years, not Pokemon gens) could work for the new fans. Pokemon Forever!

 

[ReturnofMCH]

i agree with the last 3 posters it not like pokemon will end after they run out of pokemon ideas. they could do something like a visit to older reigons but with different storylines (similar to XD:gale of darkness) on top of traditional remakes. the idea of nintendo ending their second mascot series (link form legend of zelda is is now #10 on the top grossing gaming franchises, mario is #1 and pokemon is #3) just makes me shudder to think about. plus think of Sega and Atari, they kept their major franchises running even after they stopped making consoles/handhelds.

 

[Proxima Centauri B]

I dont think they'll ever really stop. They might stop making new Pokemon eventually but they might remake old games with new mechanics and stuff like that, or new storylines. Maybe they will even make sequels to older games, but I dont think Pokemon will ever end completely.

 

[sonic10158]

I expect the series to last till at least the point where technology allows us to teleport into the game and play in 1st person (like on Spy Kids 3D: GAME OVER)

 

[Infinity Mk-II]

I predict there will be a franchise reboot somewhere not too far (but not too early), like after the eighth generation perhaps.

Then the franchise will start going in plenty of different directions, some of which might be considered a succesor of the current generational games, some very different as they're doing with the side games. Basically, at this point the franchise will become about as varied as Mario, or at least Zelda, in terms of actual games.

As for what will happen before that point, they'll make more parallel games, and generally more games within the same generation. And not just so-called "side-games", but main games, and starting to emphatize more other sub-series to the point they become no less of "main games" than the main ones. And naturally, they'll have not just expanded on concepts, but also things that change dramatically the games themselves and experiment heavily with the base formula.
Things like linked games, changing basic things like the number of pokemon you carry or moveslots or stats, etc.


Perhaps they'll even start making games with a bunch of pokémon, and other games with other pokémon, and just making up pokémon more randomly rather than by a defined generational cut, just as they are seen fit.


But, one important thing of Pokémon is its basic formula of lots of different creatures each and every player have an unique prefference order for. It is the thing that will remain forever, even if experimented with heavily.

 

[Kaustic]

As long as they profit from making the games, they'll make them. New Pokemon serve to promote new games. So, logically, they will continue designing Pokemon for as long as they're making games, which will be for as long as they make money from releasing them; leading me to believe there is no end for the franchise in sight.