The first four gens got a 3rd version. Gen 5 and 7 got sequels. Gen 6? Nothing. Just XY and the Hoen remakes. Why no Pokemon Z or Pokemon X squared/Y squared?
Either that or they wanted to get a new gen out by the 20th Anniversary.
As many have said, it likely had most to do with 20th anniversary and Switch's early release. There were two other games planned for XY as seen in game's code, but they didn't materialize due to this.Why no Pokemon Z or Pokemon X squared/Y squared?
Another issue is likely to do with continuity. Unlike Regigigas, there wasn't anything they could add for Gen 7 from Gen 6 besides maybe something Volcanion related, so they repurposed Zygarde for Alola.
2015 looked like a year of wasted potential since there many elements of X and Y that had not been expanded upon but as what was mentioned before...it is what it is...
I'm guess development for Pokemon Sun and Moon was likely the main reason for this. But seeing as how they often have two teams (one to work on main games and one to work on remakes) I don't understand why they didn't made a continuation (Z or whatever) for 2015 AND Sun and Moon. The sales for X and Y were great and for a while they were the best selling games on the 3ds.
My only problem with Black 2 and White 2 was that they were two games, similar to my problem with Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. They stated that when they created X and Y they felt they had pushed the 3DS to its full capability before realizing that they hadn't quite reached it yet. I don't mind having more than one gen on a single console, to me it just saves me money on buying a new console. I just wish Zygarde could have had a DLC story mission added in X and Y, for a gen with only 3 legendary Pokemon you would expect all of them to get equal focus...Thing is that Game Freak has never been able to release games 4 years in a row, it's not surprising that 2015 was a break year. What's really questionable in all of this is why they thought a second 3DS generation was a good idea. The last time they did that (with BW), the games felt shoehorned, cut into the lifespan of the next gen hardware, and left everyone questioning why they didn't jump to the new hardware sooner. It was already a bad idea then, let alone when the 3DS still had a third version they could release before needing a new generation.
There was no loss. SM have been about as successful as XY (and RS), and BW barely fell short of that (a 4% difference). Game Freak would have been making less money if they'd listened to Bolt's advice.In the end, it could've been deemed to be a better idea to eat the loss and properly prepare for the system by giving them a couple more years then patch together a game that potentially could've been a mess in design.
To be totally honest, if we had a Pokemon Z, with a Zygarde centered plot, Complete Zygarde and Ash-Greninja, I wouldn't bother myself into buy SM/USUM.Maybe GF didn't think that XY needed one? Either that or they wanted to get a new gen out by the 20th Anniversary.
I'd prefer a DP remake than USUM, honestly. I got bored of USUM in two weeks and went back to play X.I would've much rather not be surprised though, since XY actually needed a second wave and the Kalos region had a lot more to be explored than Alola. They could've used the time between the second wave and the new generation to fix some of SM's problems, without having to release USUM. Instead of USUM, we could've gotten DP remakes, but once again, they wanted to surprise us...
DP remakes deffo wouldn't have happened anyway, that would be too many generations for the 3ds.They said on interviews that they wanted to surprise people and since everyone was expecting a third version/sequel, i guess that was their way of surprising us. Things like Complete Zygarde were probably created to throw us off.
I would've much rather not be surprised though, since XY actually needed a second wave and the Kalos region had a lot more to be explored than Alola. They could've used the time between the second wave and the new generation to fix some of SM's problems, without having to release USUM. Instead of USUM, we could've gotten DP remakes, but once again, they wanted to surprise us...