what happened to it, /vp/? did they decide against it because

were the 'z-moves' in SuMo originally intended for 'Pokemon Z?' as well as the Zygard form changes? are SuMo secretly X2Y2?

>>27818013
Deep

>>27817980
For some reason they keep speeding up the release of the games.

>Four years of gen 4
>Two and a half years of gen 5
>Three years of gen 6

There was a game each year from 2010 to 2014.
Not to mention the six months between pre gen-6 localization releases. Japan got two fucking games of different generations in one year.

>>27817980
>>27818013


It's obvious that GF knew Kalos was underwhelming, so they saved features meant for the scrapped Pokemon Z to strengthen SuMo

You do all realize they stopped making third games because they didn't sell as well, even when they made them two games in Gen 5.

>>27819033
They also said they wanted to change up the formula. And it worked. If fucked D/P could be salvaged by Platinum and then some, fixing what little flaws X/Y had in comparison would take no time at all.

They just wanted to make things tie together in a more interesting way, with the Z arc in the anime leading us right into S/M.

>>27817980
Judging by the fact that the Strange Souvenir guy was around in Kalos, they probably never planned on making a Z version at all.

>>27818013
big if true

>>27817980
No, X and Y were never supposed to happen. They were taking too long with Sun and Moon, so instead of announce a game that still had a very long way to go, they scraped together a bunch of beta assets, split the dex in half, and made a new gimmick to hold them over until the 20th anniversary when they would be closer to release.

>>27817980
There was never a Z.

It was only assumed. Most of you faggots sounded the alarm on a Tretta game for fuck's sake.

>>27817980
I blame the French terror attacks.