I knew that, just wasn't specific enough on my end.
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Pokemon Home - Switch FRLG compatibility coming October 7 - Bank getting severed in February
- Thread starter SadisticMystic
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I was about to post "how can it still be this year" and then I remembered Switch FRLG was announced just a week before release.
I had a dream last night where I was at some sort of video games award show and they showed a slide with the box arts of Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald and said they would all come to the Switch and a bunch of people in the audience cheered and then the next slide was about Bank shutting down in February and a bunch of people in the audience said "aww" and some of them booed.
IIRC, Gen 2 on 3DS wasn’t a thing until at least a year after RBY hit the eShop and a part of me isn’t surprised at all that we haven’t gotten anything yet. The originals and the remakes both came out on November 21st of 2002 and 2014 respectively so in terms of Hoenn on Switch, I feel like either this November or Pokémon Day are going to be your best bests for a release date. (Edit: even if they’re not compatible with each other, I could also see RS and Colloseum hitting the Switch 2 around the same time as each other.)
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Yeah, but these are the same gen not different ones.
This is true, but let’s think about this for a second. Kanto releases, specifically remakes and rereleases of old Kanto games, almost never come without a Johto follow-up. The only times when this has happened is when a game with either scrapped or cancelled. What this tells me is that, let’s pretend HeartGold & SoulSilver does come to modern hardware at some point, that would mean that people would be asking “where’s Sinnoh?” just like people are wondering now with Hoenn.
My point I’m trying to make is, Kanto and Johto released ~1 year apart on the 3DS and every other core series region at the time was already playable on the system anyway. Gen 3’s games had no reason to be brought over to the 3DS for that reason. But because this time the games are from the same generation, it would be Kanto and Hoenn that are ~1 year apart and unlike the 3DS, the gaps between, in this case, Gen 3 and Gen 4’s ports would be at least ~2 years apart. Keep in mind, all of that would be contingent on the Johto remakes, though.
Why would people be asking for Sinnoh when Sinnoh is already on the switch?
If anything with HG/SS I can see them doing a BD/SP style remake of those games instead of just a flat port. Can sell it for more and people will eat it up.
Except HGSS is the sacred cow of the franchise and it would just be quicker and cheaper to do a ROM dump. FRLG sold super well while already being fairly overpriced for what it is, plus it was probably cheap for TPCi to put out when Nintnedo already had a working (and very high quality) GBA emulator lying around.
As an unrelated aside, can someone please clarify which Dex needs to be completed for the Celebi? Is it just the Kanto Dex?
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Yes, Kanto
And? If it is the same game in higher graphics with home deposit support people would be more about it.
People would be asking for Sinnoh because people love completion of releases.
Platinum, at least, would have it's fair share of fans and distinctness from BDSP
But it's also kind of irrelevant. I have doubts they put it out for most of Switch 2's life. By that hypothetical point BDSP will be pretty old and the novelty of the "original" in comparison would probably still get nostalgic pick ups for the 25-30 they sell it for.
Heck here's a different hypothetical: let's say that the timeline is actually much sooner and that RSE are next year and they have the idea of doing DPPt the year after. Get the emulator ready and touch screen and everything. That would put it at 2028, seven years after the release of BDSP. I think by that point the calculus probably has them not especially care about someone buying one or the other, it's likely money they wouldn't normally get now being gotten anyway.
Also I will just say I do not think any of the "sacred cows" are that sacred
Platinum, at least, would have it's fair share of fans and distinctness from BDSP
But it's also kind of irrelevant. I have doubts they put it out for most of Switch 2's life. By that hypothetical point BDSP will be pretty old and the novelty of the "original" in comparison would probably still get nostalgic pick ups for the 25-30 they sell it for.
Heck here's a different hypothetical: let's say that the timeline is actually much sooner and that RSE are next year and they have the idea of doing DPPt the year after. Get the emulator ready and touch screen and everything. That would put it at 2028, seven years after the release of BDSP. I think by that point the calculus probably has them not especially care about someone buying one or the other, it's likely money they wouldn't normally get now being gotten anyway.
Tbh I don’t think “what people ask for” even factors into it all that much; nobody was asking for FRLG on Switch (at least not specifically, and as it happens there already was a Kanto game on the system, LGPE), but Game Freak put it out because it made sense as a special Pokémon Day release, added value to Home, and stood to earn them a bunch of easy money in a year with no main series release. Any other re-releases will probably have similar motives first and foremost.
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PL is a fair enough point; I was thinking flat on just D/P.
Was thinking just D/P, not PL (what I get for making a post while half asleep at the time), which most people complain BD/SP are just the same game with a few modern enhancements.
And trying to argue that those two similarity and LGPE and FRLG's similarity are anywhere near as close to each another is insane. LGPE and FRLG function as completely different games from a mechanical point; D/P and BD/SP are basically the same two games just one has new underground spawns system, and a few new things such as bottle caps. Not even comparing apples to oranges more like apples to a meat.
BUt this is all mute point in the long run anyhow because as pointed out above; people would want PL; and being in a more proper mind state and remembering it exists it would be odd to release it without D/P so yeah.