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bump since they just announced new games, any idea how many new ones

@strutheo One new game that’s unlikely to have many with new dex numbers

There are 1021 pokémon at time of posting (including 4 without numbers). The first pokémon game came out in ‘96 (or ‘98 in the US), so we get an average 38-41 new pokémon a year. Which would be a (generous) projection of 1287-1308 pokémon by the end of the decade.

Examining the rate of the games’ release (the primary place new pokémon are introduced), there are more frequent pokémon games being released now, but these include many more offshoot titles (Let’s Go, Legends) which don’t (generally) introduce new characters, and never full dexes of them.

I really don’t see how we get to 1,500 pokémon by 2030.