Nintendo is dumb for not making POKEMON U

[Mythmaker1]

KingdomHeartsFan said:

Mythmaker1 said:

tbone51 said:
Pokemon would be good sure, but its a handheld title for a reason.

I agree with this. I think some important aspects of the game would get lost in translation.

Like what?

An interesting bit of design in Pokemon is the way it is built around small rewards. Battles are typically brief, fast-travel options are plentiful, cutscenes (such as they are) are fairly brief, and the ability to save any time means it is easy to make consistent progress, even if you only play for five minutes. It's a good system, for a handheld game. It's also highly customizable, and very strategic, but rarely tactical or deep (at least in the main game; I understand the rabbit-hole goes down a ways if you put the time into it).

For a console, though, this kind of dynamic is much less effective, because play-time is usually much longer. It also has a very different design philosophy to take advatnage of that fact. As such, to be a good console game, they would likely have to alter the game's system; and for a series like this, which is so tightly designed, I think it would damage the overall experience.