New Pokemon Generation on DS!!!! 2010!!!!

[thetonestarr]

vonboysp said:

thetonestarr said:
Just because a new PKMN RPG has been revealed to be coming out doesn't mean it's a new generation.

While it's been long enough since this generation began, there are too many recent titles released FROM this generation. Platinum just released last year in most of the world, and most of the world hasn't even SEEN a release of HG/SS.

I anticipate that, if anything, this may be a fourth generation 3D RPG. Or a spinoff RPG of sorts. Game Freak does only the main-series games - SO FAR - but that doesn't mean that's all they'll ever do. We don't know; don't get your hopes up so much because the evidence weighs against it.

actually the evidence backs it up. it'll be 4 years since diamond/pearl, about the amount of time between all the other generations, so it could be time.

 

plus the 4th gen anime and movies are almost over, and the next movie hints at new pokemon, hence a 5th gen game is probably coming.

That's one minor bit of evidence weighing for it, while there is a lot more evidence weighing against it.

Besides the far more important "WE DO NOT COMPETE AGAINST OURSELVES BECAUSE THAT = MILLIONS OF LOST SALES" argument, you've also got the fact that new generations of PKMN have always come out on newer hardware capable of providing superior visuals. That hasn't happened yet. In fact, the DS is nearing the end of its lifetime as the primary Nintendo handheld (it'll still be supported likely all the way into 2020 and beyond, though). It simply wouldn't make sense for Nintendo to release a flagship game in a franchise so dependant on its legs when they clearly intend to release the next generation of hardware so soon.

Additionally, the hardware situation weighs against it in another way. Suppose they DID release the 5th-gen PKMN title on the DS in September or October. They'll be releasing the next Nintendo handheld no later than the end of next year - and they may announce it THIS year. After all, they HAVE made statements about the next generation handheld, and they don't do that very long before officially announcing them. With so little time between game's release and the new hardware's release, what would they do with the rest of the generation's titles? They'd only be releasing the 5th-gen MAIN PAIR on the DS, while all of the other games - Ranger, Mystery Dungeon, Yellow/Crystal/Emerald/Platinum-type game - would be on the DS's successor. Either that, or released on inferior hardware, which again goes against Nintendo's non-self-competitive stance.

 

No, friend, it makes absolutely no logical sense whatsoever.