I'm pretty sure that when/if they do make Sinnoh remakes (which I personally am convinced will happen inevitably), I'm almost certain that, if ORAS is any indication, we'll see more of Cyrus's history background.
But until then, content speculation is, unfortunately, off-limits. This topic is discussing whether or not there is a reason to believe there will be remakes in the future, and possibly which games would be remade.
To keep the discussion on-topic, I'd like to elaborate a little on that last bit. After all, GameFreak can't keep making all their games over and over forever, so will some games get shelved in the future? For instance, it's been a while since last time we saw RBY's story. It was remade in Generation III, as the first remake game GameFreak did (for all intents and purposes, all paired Pokémon versions can be regarded as the same game). It was popular, and sold many copies, earning GameFreak lots of cash.
The trick was repeated in Gen. IV by remaking the Gen. II games, and once again now we see Gen. III remade. That is, we see the
original Gen. III games remade, whereas there is no indication that GameFreak wishes to return to Kanto any time soon. The people who grew up with the original RBY games had their "nostalgia dose" with FRLG. They are now in their mid-to-late twenties or older, and probably wouldn't bother buying a second remake (possibly in addition to the console itself, since unless they stayed devoted handheld players, they probably haven't got the relevant console).
But what about the people who grew up with FRLG? Wouldn't they like to re-live the games of their childhood?
Thing is - those who grew up with FRLG also grew up with RSE and Emerald. Those games have been remade, albeit without the extra content of Emerald. While they surely wouldn't mind seeing FRLG again, ORAS is likely to tick all the same boxes - including the "costing a significant percentage of your savings" bit, I might add. How soon after buying one game you've played before would you like to shell out the same for another game you've also played before?
For GameFreak's part, they only release one main series game every year or so. Spending the next release slot on another remake would probably afflict sales, and maybe also people's impression of Pokémon ("look, they've run out of ideas, so they just release the old games over again!"). Besides, there are other game concepts fighting for that same spot in the release schedule (see my last big post in this thread), so a remake being remade for the sake of remaking is not likely to be the first game released after another remake. GameFreak would have to wait another year or two (during which the queue of potential games to (re)make wouldn't shrink the slightest), after which the "nostalgia crowd" for Gen. III in its entirety would have begun to outgrow Pokémon. Meanwhile, the "prime timeslot" to remake Gen. IV would be fast approaching. GameFreak would be better off ditching the FRLG remake train and rather wait for the DP remake train.
But still, nostalgia or not, a lot of new fans would buy the games too! They would make money anyway!
Short answer - see my last big post in this thread. Whereas an FRLG game would probably rake in a bucketload of cash, another game might have the potential to rake in
two bucketloads. GameFreak aren't only interested in making money, they're interested in making
the maximum amount of money. As such, they'd be better off making the latter game, even though both options technically would earn them money.
But what if they did a sort of "Kanto revisited" game, with a completely new story, new gyms, redesigned areas and all that? Sort of what happened to Kanto in Gen. II, just even more drastic changes?
Development costs. Basically, remakes are cheap to make because all the work with storyline, area design, character design, the roster of available Pokémon (and what time to introduce them), scripting and game progression (balance, path through the map, level curve) is already mostly done. Drastically redesigning Kanto would require all that work to be done from scratch too. Basically they'd have to design an entirely new game, but within the constraints of Kanto (that is, less freedom to do as they want). There would be a lot more to do compared to, say, just reusing the content of an as-of-yet-not-remade game such as D/P. In terms of untapped remake potential (which includes marketing potential, mind you), D/P still has a "full tank" whereas RBY has had the juice squeezed out of it once already.
What if they could remake two games at once! Let players visit one region first, and then another!
I've seen this argument pop up a few times too. It sounds tempting, but it'd make for a boringly long game with a terribly shallow level curve, and/or immense grinding if you wanted to add new party member near the end. Or, you know, a completely botched second region à la GSC. Besides, the developer time and costs would be a nightmare. Lots of extra work which means extra expenses - and realistically, the game wouldn't earn enough extra money compared to a single-region game to justify that cost.
But RBY were the first Pokémon games, and the most influential! Surely GameFreak might treat them with a little "extra care", considering their immense popularity?
This, I must admit, is a pretty solid argument. I could see GameFreak doing something like that once, but unsure on where to put it into a release schedule. Usually, a Pokémon generation's time line goes something like this:
1) Totally new game with a new region and all the other content you expect a new generation to bring.
2) Remake of older game.
3) Follow-up/sequel to game 1).
4) End generation, enter a new one.
The pattern was established in Gen. III, and apart from some shifting 2) and 3) around, it has held true for the most part since then. The exception was Gen. V, which was kind of short due to the DS nearing the end of its lifetime, and omitted step 2). Curiously, it seems like only
one fully new and designed game is made per generation; the follow-up games use the same engine, take most of their content from some previous game, add bells and whistles and sell at full price.
At any rate, there seems to be room for only one game in slot 2) per generation. If an RBY remake was due for Gen. VII, it would either delay the hypothetical D/P remake, or have its sales hampered by the two-remakes-in-a-row-effect. Given the immense popularity of D/P, the limited time period in which the game would sell extra many copies due to nostalgia, and the untapped remake potential of those games, I'd say a Gen. IV remake would be a lot higher on the priorities list. With that in mind, I really can't see any RBY remake hit the shelves until Gen. VIII, but that would affect the potential of a Gen. V remake. Never mind that we'd then be due for HGSS to be remade, and come gen. IX we'd be asking for RBY
again as well as Hoenn AND Kalos, and...
...yeah, basically I'm afraid that the chances we'll see remakes remade again are quite slim. At some point, making the same games over and over can't be defended any more. I admit that RBY is a bit of a special case, but I can't see how it would fit in with the release schedule of the main series games. Maybe Pokémon: Origins was meant to be the final callback? It came out at roughly the same time as we'd expect a game released around FRLG's date to be remade (basically, when "Hoenn Confirmed" echoed through the Internet every time it rained heavily or there was a drought somewhere). RBY could possibly see new life in a spin-off, too. I don't know how, why, when or what, and I'm pretty sure any further speculation would be way beyond the rules of OI, so I'm not going to expand on that now.
Anyway, as I said - please no speculation on game
content here. That's outside the scope of this thread.
