Do you think the Pokemon world will continue forever until we have too many pokemon to name or do you think it will end at a certain number of pokemon, and if you think it will end how do you think it will end?

Hmm.

Tricky.

Y’know, I remember when Ruby and Sapphire were first announced, I read an article in a magazine that speculated “this could be the final year for Pokémon,” and now I sort of wish I could find the writer of that article, walk up to him/her and shout “WRONG!”

So, anyway, will they just keep going forever?  Well, I think the franchise will keep going as long as it keeps making Nintendo money because that’s just good business.  If it ends, it will be because people stopped giving them money, and there will be no fanfare or great finish; it’ll just ‘stop.’  At this point, though, it sort of looks like Pokémon will continue as long as the video game industry does… ten years?  Fifty years?  Who knows?  Will they ever stop creating new Pokémon?  Well, that’s actually a different question, because they could, hypothetically, stop making new Pokémon and keep making new games.  If they do stop, I imagine the moment to do it would be #1000, just because it’s a pretty number.  I don’t think they will, though, simply because releasing 100-odd new Pokémon every few years is their model for keeping the franchise going.  I don’t really believe they’d want to try doing it any other way.