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Alola forms being exclusive to Gen I Pokemon is not really the first-go around when you consider how many gen I mega evolutions there are. Pidgeot & Beedrill robbed Milotic & Flygon. ROBBED.
Ehh, as it stands, Gen III actually has the highest number of Pokémon with Mega Evolutions. And we know that they did intend to give one to Flygon, it's just that they got artist's block and dropped it (which in my opinion is actually a good thing - Flygon is already a fantastic concept and design; I personally would prefer that they leave it as it is rather than trying to force something onto it, resulting in something that's probably just unnecessarily spikier and with other doodads attached to it). Milotic is fairly good on its own, too. Pidgeot and Beedrill on the other hand were much more in need of assistance.
There's not doubting that favoritism was a factor with Mega Evolutions, but specifically with the ones in ORAS, it felt to me like there was at least some attempt to actually utilize the idea in a substantial way (Mega Raycraziness aside).
I understand the dropping of megas as they are no longer the new function, and due to the focus on Z-moves in S/M but the "if a game comes up in future that we think [Mega Evolutions] would work really well with, certainly we'll look into it" comment really makes me wonder what the future regarding megas is, as lots of Pokemon (namely starters) shouldn't be left out.
Oh, I don't mind them not introducing any new Mega Evolutions while they focus on Z-Moves. That's fine by me. I just don't like the potential implication of what Masuda said. I think there are quite a few Pokémon that could still benefit from being given Mega Evolutions, but now they'll just have to wait until a specific idea for a game rolls along. Which is somewhat frustrating, because unlike regional variants, you can basically plop in new Mega Evolutions with no explanation whatsoever and it'll be fine. They don't have to have a whole backstory to them.
Am I jumping the gun here? Yeah, I suppose so. But given Game Freak's history of underutilizing or just outright removing features that had a lot of potential, I can't help but get a little antsy when they start to talk like that.