Why doesn't TPC tease the latest gen anymore?

Remember how Togepi and Munchlax were introduced years before their actual generations got announced? Or the movies and side games that featured pokemon from future generations? Whatever happened to that? It made the world feel so much bigger and encouraged theory crafting. Now you have something like the pokemon world tourney, where trainers from all over the world can gather, and the only ones who ever appear in this tournament are from previous generations. The masters 8 could've been the perfect opportunity to introduce gen 9's champion or professor but instead they decided to recycle 8 old trainers. Did we really need Iris randomly becoming a champion out of nowhere so she could show up here? Or fucking Alain?

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TPC doesn't care anymore. SwSh proved that Pokemon fans have no standards. TPC doesn't have need to worry about quality. They don't even need put in the basic effort to marketing anymore. Most fans are either domesticated cattle who will comsume anything, shitposters who only care about memes and porn, or unpaid shills who throw a tantrum if you dare to have an opinion.

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>comsume

God I hate corporations. How is it that something as soulless as league of legends can Kickstart a show like Arcane but pokemon gets progressively worse with its promotional material

Because everything's too massive and corporate now. There's no longer a big deal to be made about a new Pokemon appearing before a new gen's announced because every single year we get a game with new Pokemon announced.

I sincerely doubt OLM knew who the Gen 9 Champion was when they decided on the Masters Eight, and established characters are way more marketable and easier to swallow than some never before seen character suddenly being called one of the strongest in the world.

The anime is trash so they don't use it anymore as a teaser

>Why are characters who haven't been thought of yet not in the tournament?

That didn't stop them from debuting Leon as the sudden out of nowhere "strongest trainer in the world" earning his claim to fame through the sudden out of nowhere "World Coronation Series where all the world's strongest trainers gather annually to determine who the best of the best is" when in the games he was simply "strongest trainer in the Galar region".

They used to do it because there was a long-ass hype season between generations where new Pokemon were teased YEARS before the game came out. Nowadays the production cycle is much shorter.

There's always been 3-4 years between generations, mate.
The key difference is that they're no longer confined to revealing or teasing new Pokemon for a single pair of games, they can debut new species whenever the hell they want. And since that's profitable and gives each game a selling point, we generally get a new game with new Pokemon every year as of Gen 7.

Nigger do you think gamefreak comes up with the champion of the game a month before its release?
>remember that Ohmori said trials were added to sun and moon a month before the game came out
On second thought, you may be right

That was out of plot necessity. Ash has to battle the Gen 8 Champion because it's Gen 8, but the world traveling format means he's not in Galar most of the time, and can't do the Galar Gym Challenge. So the PWC and Monarch title were created as a workaround to give Ash another way to work his way up to Leon. And it still fits with Leon's established character, the only difference is that his status and fame in Galar were extended to the whole world.

>I sincerely doubt OLM knew who the Gen 9 Champion was when they decided on the Masters Eight
And yet they knew what Ho-oh was before the anime even started airing. There was nothing stopping them from consulting tpc about information on gen 9
>and established characters are way more marketable and easier to swallow than some never before seen character suddenly being called one of the strongest in the world.
Yes, I mean, look at all the merch for Alain, right? Such a marketable character that they even introduced him into the gam-oh wait...

>And yet they knew what Ho-oh was before the anime even started airing
So did everyone else. Ho-oh's Sugimori art was already revealed and was being used in Japanese magazines well before the anime aired. Hell, there's a Japanese magazine scan floating around that uses it where they advertise the upcoming Trading Card Game.

The anime staff doesn't get to make those decisions, TPC does. They knew about Ho-Oh because GSC was already in production and the anime was literally created to build hype for them.

Gen 4 pokémon got leaked as they announced, then had to delay DP, so it was "keep people interested, quick". Gen 6 killed the "in-series AU" movies template and with them not relating to the series/nest series any further, dropped the habit. Though I will say we havne't gotten a tard "new" movie as final movie of a Gen since XY days, so there may be an element of that involved too, when there's a new movie in the last year of a Gen (not a remake), maybe they'll tease new 'mons in it.

>haven't gotten a traditional *new* movie
Fingers had a seizure, sorry.

The Japanese in general are absolutely terrible at marketing and sales. Early Tpc was an exception to this rule, not the norm. The only Japanese franchise that understands how to maintain a hype cycle these days is Smash bros.

Movies are dead indefinitely because they were no longer turning profits between declining interest and what COVID did to theaters, with TPC refusing to submit and jump to streaming services in Japan.
Don't count on a movie being involved until an announcement's made because they'd much rather not risk low profits when they can simply save everything that would go into production and push it towards making even more merch.

>Smash made by HAL
>early TPC and pre-TPC Pokemon greatly influenced by Iwata, then-president of HAL
There is a commonality here...