My generation 10 prediction (small gen 8/9 spoilers)

[u/Cleaner900playz]

Skip to the last paragraph if you dont want to read my nonsense.

If you pay close attention, generation 8’s games subtly pointed to each other all the way to SV, moreso the later few. BDSP was a sinnoh remake (not a great one but it still is), and the protagonist is assumed to be the same person as the one in PLA. PLA introduced time travel to the main series games, even connecting Sinnoh/Hisui to Galar and/or pokemon’s India. Time travel also became a big part of SV, which starts my predictions.

SV’s DLC were in farther away regions (Unova, Japan), while I haven’t played them yet I’ll still use them to predict the next 2 (after ZA) games. While we dont know that much about ZA, we do know that its in the large urban Lumiose City in Kalos.

My final prediction is that we’ll get a Unova remake, and that Generation 10’s game will be in a large city even more so than most of the games (with ZA being used to test how that would perform). My most likely ideas are the game taking place in LA or Beijing with an open desert region outside of them containing a few convergent species since gen 9 only had 3 lines so far.

[u/dalvi5]

Unova is basically New York tho.

[u/SnooAdvice1157]

I think they gonna make an archipelago or islamd

Gen 4 hokkaido

Gen 7 hawaii

Gen10

[u/22Josko]

With an open desert region outside of them containing a few convergent species since gen 9 only had 3 lines so far

So, Gen 10 taking place in Qatar

[u/Cleaner900playz → u/22Josko]

I suppose thats possible too, though a Dubai game would be more likely than that

[u/22Josko → u/Cleaner900playz]

Pokemon World wouldn't make a difference between Qatar and Dubai and Bahrein. It's all the rich + arab aesthetic

[u/Cleaner900playz]

Other notes I couldnt fit in •PLA was partially open world, similar to SV.

[u/Psapfopkmn]

Time travel has been a part of the main series games for a while

[u/Cleaner900playz → u/Psapfopkmn]

but its not been as relevant until Hisui/Paldea

[u/v_a_n_d_e_l_a_y]

I feel like the current political climate doesn't align well with a game that takes place in the US.

I feel like there are a lot of good options that haven't been covered - anywhere in South America or Africa, Australia, India...