Am I the only one who realized that Pokemon is a yearly release now?

Pokemon franchise is exactly like CoD (and began to propose the same structure over and over again way early than CoD). Deal with it, pokemon fans.

This reminds me of that one South Park episode for some reason.

This one

It's also the same game rehashed over and over. It's exclusive to the Gameboy and DS. The originals wasn't balanced well in terms of power and types; this is something that has never been corrected. New generations are increasingly unimaginative. They're really time consuming too. Plus you're suppose to catch them all, which requires multiple games to get every Pokemon or friends willing to help. I'm pretty critical of Pokemon, which is very unfavorable amongst everyone.

It got kids and was charming. It was on the go, had the anime, trading cards, and tons of merchandise. I don't think of them as good games.

eh its sort of a yearly franchise but platinum, blk2/wht2, and hearth ans souls were just slightly changed versions of other games so not as much needed to be done on them. platinum and bl2/wht were almost just dlc

Oh, and my favorite Generation is Gen 2. So amazing. (2>4>5>1>3 in my opinion. Since I don't care about Gen 6 at all, I will refrain form adding it to the last and just put it off to the side)

Pokémon's slowly been changing, and it seems to be changing faster than, to use your example, CoD. For a start, it's being directed to adults more than CoD is. ;) Anyway, this generation swapped things up quite a bit. I view HG/SS as a side project as a remake, though I haven't played them much, so I could be wrong, whereas the next one was B/W, which is a two year gap. There were actually two years between B/W and B2/W2 (go by Japanese release dates, not the wildly varying international dates) and it's not unbelievable to think that X/Y had a mostly separate team, given the 3DSness of it. I'll admit, yeah, I was surprised it was announced so quickly, but I'm not seeing a worrying trend myself. The big issue with yearly releases is franchise burn, something CoD in particular suffers as it's one of many modern FPSes. Pokémon is pretty much unique, as far as I know, so while franchise burn can and probably has happened for some people, it's still taking its time for many, many others.

Japanese release schedule:

Diamond/Pearl: September 28, 2006
Platinum: September 13, 2008
Heart Gold/Soul Silver: September 12, 2009
Black/White: September 18, 2010
Black 2/White 2: June 23, 2012
X/Y: October 12, 2013

"Liked as in by basically every gamer, so obviously CoD doesn't count."
I wouldn't be surprised if CoD is more liked by people globally than Pokemon. "Bro's" are less likely to be vocal about their devotion on online message boards than more nerdy-type Pokemon lovers.

Pokemon died on me on Gold and Silver...

they are way too many Pokemon now...they're like Digimon.
most of them are of non-quality.

Wow, I never realized.
Yay for assets!
Assets!

Assets!

Its only like that because people burn through it like butter

And its more of a single player handheld game

I for one want Y, but i also want previous gens so i can bring older pokemon back as well.

I.E Rayquaza :3

Your a little late, I remember back in 2nd grade thinking pokemon was a rip off, because all they did was change city names and colors for each new release ( this is still the case)