It's very clear that the majority of you guys aren't even reading the original post.
(1) As I said, Nintendo only took 9 years to release any real successor to the GameBoy because it didn't have any competition to deal with. That's not the case anymore. Now they clearly DO have significant competition, and we know Sony is working to release their own PSP successor soon. I don't think Nintendo will let Sony get ahead of them - they want to drown the competition out and have a virtual monopoly again. Eliminate the chance of the competition to viably make a profit and you have an easier time controlling the market once again.
(2) I very, very clearly stated that the game would be DS compatible - which very obviously means it would be a "DS title" in the same way that Gold and Silver versions were "GB titles" even though they were made for the GBC.
(3) I'm not sure why you people are still trying to justify the DSi as a successor system and not just a minor revision. Adding cameras does absolutely nothing to give a potential upgrade to each and every game. It only adds to a few select games that actually CAN benefit from it. THIS is why it can't be a DSi exclusive - it just doesn't make sense that way. Also, the announcements about it say it is to release for the DS system - NOT the DSi. No, there's 100% no doubt in my mind that there's no way it'll be a DSi exclusive.
(4) I think there's a chance it MAY release prior to the DS2, but that it'll definitely still have DS2 unique features built-in, or that a revision of the game will release early on for the DS2. This would allow them to bypass the incredibly obvious issues of supporting the generation for four years while the DS2 is out at the same time. You never want to release something that you need to support for years beyond the release of a successor - that's bad marketing. But releasing it with the successor's features already built-in, or re-releasing it a year later with revisions, would bypass that entire problem altogether.
(5) For the past fourteen years PKMN has stood for Pokemon. Where the hell have you people been?
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