Ever wonder how "Pokemon X" and "Pokemon Y" were named? Well no need to wonder any longer the developers for the new title have talked about how the upcoming title got its name, plus the benefits of introducing the new fairy type. Nintendo's president sat down with Game Freak director Junichi Masuda and Pokemon Company CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara, which the trio discussed how the name for the latest entry to the Pokemon game franchise came about.
Junichi Masuda said in the Iwata Ask that the name had to do with graphs. Specifically the horizontal x axis and vertical y axis. "The world holds people with all sorts of ways of thinking, and you can get a sense that they exist in different dimensions," Masuda explained. "But if you think of them as people who think on the x axis and people who think on the y axis-horizontal and vertical axes-then they intersect somewhere.
"We may think differently, but we all live on the same planet, so everyone eats, sleeps and goes about their business day after day just like everyone else."
Then the theme of "Pokemon X and Y" is summarized by Iwata, "The theme this time is that even if languages, cultures and mindsets are different, even if the surrounding environment is different, they overlap somewhere."
Fans are familiar with the Pokemon games usually having a colored theme named but the duo ensured that the departure from using colors as names just felt like the right time to move on. Especially because this is the first time a Pokemon game to get an entry on the 3DS device and have a worldwide release.
"Pokemon X and Y" will release worldwide October 12 on the Nintendo 3DS and newly announced 2DS which will also release the same day.
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