Game News Pokémon: Is there something missing this year?
The year 2022 is soon coming to an end and for the first time since 1997, the Pokémon franchise has a little air of incompleteness… Yes, something is missing… Do you have it?
2022, a calm year for Pokémon
Created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996, Pokémon is a franchise that needs no introduction. Declined in various forms, from anime to manga, through card games…, we mainly know Pikachu and his friends through video games released over the generations until the launch of the ninth with the recent release of Pokémon Scarlet / Purple last November.
Moreover, it was at the beginning of the year, on January 28, 2022 to be exact, that the eighth generation ended with the release of Pokémon Legends: Arceus, the first game in the saga evolving in a semi-world. open. Some will even talk about a spin-off, which is not to the taste of The Pokemon Company, the joint venture that manages the brand in the world, and which considers this opus as a game of the main series. But then… where are the spin-offs for 2022?
No Pokémon spin-off this year, a first for 25 years!
You will understand, unless there is a last minute surprise, no spin-offs from the Pokemon franchise were scheduled for The Pokemon Company’s 2022 release chart. Since 1997, 25 years ago, this is the first calendar year where fans have been deprived of a game that, literally speaking, “revolves around” the Pokémon universe. It is the journalist Joe Merrick of the Serebii site who, as a connoisseur of the Pokémon universe, published his observation on his official Twitter account.
With just one week remaining in the year, we can safely say:
2022 was the first year since 1997 where a new Pokémon spin-off title didn’t release pic.twitter.com/Pu193vIr2i
—Joe Merrick (@JoeMerrick) December 24, 2022
With only one week left in the year, we can say with certainty:
2022 is the first year since 1997 that a new Pokémon spin-off title has not been released.
Nevertheless, fans have not been left out for two years since between 2020 and 2021, The Pokemon Company has delivered a batch of no less than five spin-offs. Pokémon Unite, Pokémon Café ReMix, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX, Pokémon Smile and New Pokémon Snap, so many titles that justify The Pokemon Company’s choice to skip this year, not to mention the major updates , especially on Pokémon Go to name just one example.
Nothing has yet been announced for 2023 but no doubt we should have some information to eat by then. In the meantime, the latest opus to date entitled Pokémon Scarlet / Violet is available, exclusively on Nintendo Switch.
