Might be an announcement then?PokeBeach said:
It's almost definitely Pokemon GO related. Why spend $5 million to advertise to the American Football user about a 3DS game that they will most likely not get as opposed to a smartphone app they could EASILY get?
Most promising news we've heard yet.
Why would they wait until the third version to make all Pokémon obtainable? Doing it this way round makes way more sense because it allows for way more liberty in teambuilding for the VGCs. Waiting until the third version to make everything accessible sounds dumb to me.
My whole point was... Maybe there isn't a third version at all.
Well, this was true in other generations too. In particular only Gens II and V didn't really give out every available Pokemon via one way or another. Why should Gen VI be like those two?
Well that pentagon status sort of forced them to release all Pokemon again as Celever pointed out. Previous gens you were essentially just told to send your Pokemon up through the games, but for XY if you want to use them in competitions you need the Legendaries rereleased. Also I think they're preparing for a generation lock out. It may not happen for the next generation or the one after that, but eventually they're going to stop supporting Pokemon Bank and when they do they're also going to stop allowing you to transfer your Pokemon from Gen V to Gen VI. By having all Pokemon obtainable in Gen VI every player will at least be able to get the normal Pokemon they want.
Bank was explicitly stated to last for many years and support upcoming games. They're not doing a lockout.
Well no, of course not any time soon; but due to being internet-based it will happen eventually and hence transferring Pokémon up will hence eventually be impossible.
I'd rather not have a RBY remake. It already had a remake, we don't need another one. Maybe for the next Nintendo console, but not in the 3DS lifetime.
Well, considering that the RGB remakes were from the GBA era, I'm not sure why another set of Kanto remakes for the 3DS would be any more controversial than a set of remakes for the NDX. We're twelve years out from FRLG, after all, while they were released about eight years after the originals.
I think they'll go through remakes before second round remakes though. Gold/Silver and now Ruby/Sapphire got remakes so it looks like it'll be Diamond/Pearl remakes before another Green/Red remake. Also like you said VC releases of RBY seem to support that another remake isn't in the card for now.
Under that logic we will most likely never get gen one remakes again because the remakes are coming out slightly slower then the new generations. FR/LG have less updated mechanics than D/P, and therefor should come before them in a remake. I'd go G1--->G4--->G2---->G5. I mean, you can't even do the gen one story without a Special or Physical split....
So the trend so far has been G1 -> G2 -> G3/G1 -> G4/G2 -> G5 -> G6/G3. So will it be G7/G1/G4 or G7/G1 then G8/G4? Then eventually you'll get something like G9/G3/G6 or G12/G4 and G13/G7, then will it be time to remake G1 again? (what's the limit for remakes?) I mean it'd probably be profitable for GF but at some point I'd probably start to skip buying games due to the number of releases. Also making so many games in a short time will reduce quality so we'd see bigger distances between generations or crappier games. Just skeptical the logistics would work. For me personally, I'm just fine with a solid new gen with solid new content and a good remake rather than a bunch of remakes.
That is just the order of remakes. By no means would I want them to do more than one set of remakes a generation. So you should never get to have three games at once, but you should be remaking the game that is the most outdated mechanic wise, which is gen one at this point. I fully expect gen seven before a gen one remake.
