In a new interview with The Pokémon Company, Game Freak‘s Junichi Masuda confirmed that Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee mark the final time in which he serves as the director when it comes to the core Pokémon games:
But at the same time, it’s important to have the younger generation at GAME FREAK take over the development of Pokémon as a series. I do believe this will probably be, in terms of the main Pokémon RPGs, the last time that I work as the director.
Source: Pokemon.com
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