I'm already hyped for Pokémon's 30th anniversary in 2026, and most of us who are fans of the series know this will probably be a big year for the series. While the Pokémon Company has yet to confirm what’s coming next year, it's reasonable to expect that sometime later in 2025, we will get news of games coming in 2026.
This will likely include a fresh mainline Pokémon game, which will most likely be a Switch 2 exclusive that will make me pay the console tax. I'm sure of that because of the anniversary, and also because it lines up with the release cadence of previous generations, which have never been released later than four years after the previous one. Generation 9 debuted in late 2022, after all.
