With Seasons going by every 6 weeks, that means that every 3 years we have 26 seasons (barring the total stoppage last year, plus the extra week every 5-6 years, but we can account for that). I'm more along the lines of "Rank 4 times a year". That's 8 games, a healthy number.
I wouldn't have minded moving the new rankings to Season 49, as the middle of this coming Season comes around New Years. Not a good thing...
Still, that would mean that the next time we have rankings would be around early February; which would still not be enough time to note the Decemberween gifts...
Just make the ranking freeze tri-annual (every third year), but put it up to a forum vote each time (2/3 to veto the freeze), and be done with it.
If we go to every 3 Seasons period, however, I would like to go back to a
Maximum of 3 Games + Single FWs. IIRC, there's still a minimum rubric that would allow for the possibility for
no games to get ranked. (Practically averages to 8 as well...)
In fact, from what I recall of early DL history, having rankings every 2 Seasons was a remedy for the problem of
HEATED "Debate" when rankings season
did come around. (This was back in the early teens, hinode, and revolved mainly around Pokemon that weren't Pikachu, which was a transfer in from RPGP.)
Also, the Wii at least has an official emulator for many of the ancient systems, and already has PS2 and the Shining Forces for sale via their shop, in addition to many SNES games that don't already have GBA remakes. Perhaps the PS3 and/or XBox 360 has similar? The point is that removing games from the roster now is not really feasible and could even hurt sales at those Virtual Shops
(Another DL History note: I'm not so sure that I would buy Phantasy Star 3 on the VC simply because it was removed from the DL back in Season 18.)
If the concern is "the rosters are already too large," I would be more along the lines of either restructuring the divisions (5 instead of 4) or expanding the non-Godlike divisions somehow to address that issue. But that's a whole other topic altogether.