Update: Pokemon X and Y announced for 3DS! Coming October 2013 worldwide!

[lestatdark]

Aielyn said:

lestatdark said:

KylieDog said:
I hope there is no importing or backwards pokedex nonsense. Do not want to play old pkemon games to catch a pokemon type just so can import it into the new pokemon game, the one I want to play,


Clean slate!

Unless they somehow implement all the legendaries from previous pokemon games into this one, either in-game or via events, importing will continue to be there. I still have my Gen II Celebi and still want to continue to transfer it to the new games.

They could do as they did with Gen 3, and make sure there's more games in the generation that give you further access.

Picture it this way - three pairs of games released in Gen 3. Pokemon X and Y starts in the new region, and then lets you visit Hoenn. Then there's a new Kanto/Johto game and a new Sinnoh/Unova game. Not that they'd actually do this combination (it would reduce the motivation for further visits to older regions in Gen 7), but it demonstrates that they could definitely do it.

They could definitely do it, but it wouldn't be something that I would enjoy that much. A lot of people have been bringing pokemons from previous gens into newer ones since the games launched, my example of the legendaries was only because it's the most restrictive group of pokemons in-game.

Until the worlwide distribution of wi-fi events, it was impossible to get certain pokemon and complete the pokedexes unless you brought them from previous generations. Even on Gen III, you still had some limitations of what pokemon you could get. Now, if they did a fresh start on Gen VI which allows you to obtain all pokemon in that particular gen, then it wouldn't be a big issue (though i'd still want to bring some pokemon that I've put long hours into training and raising), but it would all depend on Game Freaks approach.