"The Pokemon Company's COO Addresses Possibility of Slowing Down Game Releases"

At the Pokemon World Championships in Yokohama, Japan, ComicBook.com had the opportunity to participate in a group interview with Takato Utsunomiya, the chief operating officer of The Pokemon Company. While the interview was limited to overall questions about the brand as opposed to specifics about the game or anime, ComicBook.com did ask whether there was a specific schedule that the Pokemon brand was beholden to when it came to the release of new Pokemon games. "I think in general, if you look at the past, the path we've taken up until now has been this constant release, always regularly releasing products on a fairly fixed kind of a cadence, you might say," Utsunomiya responded via a translator. "Always having these products able to be introduced and new experiences for our customers, and that's how we've operated up until now. I think we're still operating in that way, but there's more and more conversations, as the development environments change, about how we can continue to do this, while making sure that we're ensuring really quality products are also being introduced." It looks like the Pokemon COO knows that the current model of having gamefreak make a new generation every 3 years is not sustainable. I don't expect changes to happen anytime soon, but it is a positive sign to see Pokemon acknowledge that they need to change.Source: ComicBook via /r/pokemon https://ift.tt/RLV0zvB