What will happen after Gen.7?

[Murkrow]

Originally Posted by bulbasaur

I believe you mean, 314159265358979/100000000000000?

That was genuinely a typo.

2 and 3 ARE right next to each other :(

[1. Luftballon]

Originally Posted by Zoltea

Well, in the coding it technically is already 3 digits in Hex. :P
This would mean if they keep the bit-amount the same, then you can have 4095 Pokemon excluding 000.

it's two bytes. 65535.

[Vipera Magnifica]

So you think the system will magically stop working just because they've run out of numbers?
Why does that sound almost familiar?

Oh yeah... Y2K

[surskitty]

Originally Posted by sreservoir

(exception, of course, for gen 2, which I assume had only 251 because that's as many as would fit in a byte.)

Eh? 256. One of those junk ones is an egg, I think, but that still leaves four more.

[Lord of the Fireflies]

Is there a limit to making pokémon? 649 is getting pretty fucking high, imo.

[JackPK]

Originally Posted by Lord of the Fireflies

Is there a limit to making pokémon? 649 is getting pretty fucking high, imo.

Let me quote the following for extreme truth:

Originally Posted by Zoroark

Game Freak will keep making new Pokémon until the sun explodes and not even numbers can stop them.

[1. Luftballon]

Originally Posted by enekoiru

Eh? 256. One of those junk ones is an egg, I think, but that still leaves four more.

250+one we're pretending is a secret is a prettier number than 255, though.

I don't know quite as much about gen 2 data structure as I used to, though; all I really remember is that they were so wasteful, they used an entire byte for a two-state flag.

[Ferasquilee]

Perhaps they'll redesign the Pokédex to contain evolutionary lines instead of Pokémon (001-1, 001-2, 001-3, etc.)? :3

EDIT:

Originally Posted by Rasrap Smurf

22/7 is a pentagon Pokémon

And 9/11 is a Twin Towers Pokémon.

[Flora]

Originally Posted by Tailsy

Eh? 256. One of those junk ones is an egg, I think, but that still leaves four more.

IIRC there's at least one Glitch 'Mon in GSC, though I doubt that was meant to be placed in.

[Sesquipedalian!]

Changing to four-digit numerations would be the next logical step, though I would most certainly not be surprised if they required scientific notation to keep track of the Pokemon by the end of a handful of years.

[Cockatoo777]

ITS OVER 9000!!!!1!!

[Jirachu]

Guess what?....

Gen 8 is already happening now :P *troll face* See that new nut head pokemon on serebii's site for more details....

NOT A TROLL I'M SERIOUS HERE!!!!! really, why would i be trolling over a series that may never end...

though, honestly, i could be happy with pokemon still being around forever xD really^^

[Stormrycon]

Ever heard of the Pokemon reset theory or whatever? (I heard of it from some random yt channel) that is what I think is going to happen. Remakes of everything, and the release of Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee also supports this