Gen 10 Pokemon region
All right, minus the hints. I've been meaning to ask everyone the 20 million poke dollar question. Where will the gen 10 pokemon region will be at? Australia? Italy? Mexico? Germany? We should take a guess especially when the rumored successor to the nintendo switch be arriving.
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Ok, so this is about trying to come up with REALISTIC guesses (rather than what part of the planet we WISH to see used as inspiration for a Pokemon region).
In that case, I think there's several factors that narrow down the possibilities quite a bit!
- Places where Pokémon currently has a presence, or is at least somewhat popular (at minimum Pokémon games have to be available, but optimally the games are even localized to their language and/or there exists an official branch of the Pokémon company for the region)
- Popular tourist destinations, especially popular vacation places for people from Japan
- Places that the developers of the main series are familiar with (either from visiting them, or by actually being from there)
Of course these are not "requirements", they just make it a lot more likely, especially when its multiple ones in combination.
It means that further obvious European countries are pretty likely (like Italy and Germany), possibly another US-based region (but west coast?).
But since I imagine many would love to see a new region that isn't yet another Europe or US based one; Korea might be a pretty solid candidate!
- Get's localized games
- Pokémon is very popular there
- Literally next to Japan
- I know there's at least one Korean employee that was or is working at Gamefreak
- iconic Pachirisu Player VGC World Champ Sejun Park
That could be really cool!
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The moon.
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Possibly Mexico/Central America
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I hope for Australia and we get a Platypus starter
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I hope it’s Italy!
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Not counting my hopes for a wild west themed Legends game in Unova, I'd love to see a non-2D Pokemon game set in East Asia, whether that be in China, Korea, or Japan again. While Gens 1-4 were all set in Japan, it's hard to really feel that any of them really represent the culture to a notable degree. The Johto region comes the closest to what I'd consider to be notable representation of Japanese culture, but even that I feel could have been turned up to 11 with a new theme for Johto being one of culture and its importance, at the very least to finally make it more distinct from the Kanto region.
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The rumoured sucsessor to the switch will probably arrive in late 2024-late 2025. Who knows where the next region could be based on? Maybe the Nordic countries?
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I was betting on China. Due to the bamboo area and the treasures of ruin, I thought they were hints at a Chinese region but maybe that’s been debunked recently.
I still think it would be awesome though.
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