Pokémon SV or ScarVio? How Gen 9 Games Should Be Shortened
With Generation 9 on the horizon, some fans may be wondering the correct way to shorten Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's name's when writing them out. In February, the Pokémon community was surprised when Game Freak announced Gen 9 Pokémon Scarlet and Violetwould be launching in Fall 2022 on the Nintendo Switch. The release of new RPGs means that players will have to learn new naming conventions for the Gen 9 titles.
When the Pokémon series launched in North America in 1998 with Pokémon Red and Blue, players could not imagine at the time that the franchise would eventually grow to nine generations over two decades later. With Pokémon Scarlet and Violet releasing at the end of the year, players will now have nine mainline titles and countless spinoff projects to memorize — but how should the games' titles be shortened?
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Since the debut of the Pokémon remakesOmega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire and HeartGold and SoulSilver, Pokémon games have also started to have complex titles. To cut down on the lengthy names, the Pokémon community has started to write shortened versions of Pokémon RPGs using abbreviations. With Pokémon Scarlet and Violet tho, some fans have debated whether Gen 9 should be Pokémon SV or ScarVio.
For several generations now, the Pokémon community has stuck to a pretty consistent naming method for mainline games. While some players have started to call Gen 9 ScarVio, the popular abbreviation should instead be "SV." When most Pokémon titles are shortened, Game Freak likes to use the first letter of each title while cutting out everything else. For example, Alola's Pokémon Sun and Moon games has been written "SM" since it was released in
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