Pokemon: Why is there only 1 save file?

[the_dengle]

burninmylight said:

Infinite starters is a complete non-issue and totally legal.

1. Go to the GTS and look for the starter you want. Trade for it.
2. Go breed it.
3. Repeat the first two steps.

Exactly. Half the point of Pokemon is trading with others. There is a reason they split each release into two versions, and it's not to sell two games to each kid.

Trading with someone else for a Pokemon you can't get in your save file is the intended way to play the game. Trading with yourself to get a Pokemon you can't get in one file is essentially an exploit... like setting up two accounts in a competitive game with leaderboards, and repeatedly defeating yourself to raise your ranking. That is how I believe GameFreak sees it: if you are avoiding the trading feature, you are cheating the system in a way.