Will 2026 Be the Year My Dream Pokémon Game Comes Out?

For a franchise that unleashed such childhood freedom and imagination, Pokémon games are notoriously conservative in their design. I’m a big series fan, but even I regularly skip entire Pokémon generations because playing the titles in quick succession reveals just how similarly they play. After all, the Pokémon game I played in college wasn’t that different from the Pokémon game I played in elementary school. However, in the Nintendo Switch era, as the series leapt from…