Pokemon As An Annual Franchise?

[Nuvendil]

Mystro-Sama said:

Nuvendil said:

Mystro-Sama said:
What annoys me theres no love for the Wii U when it comes to pokemon. Pokemon on the 3ds is saturated at this point.

I think that Pokemon in its current form fits best on handhelds, but I think that a different take on the same basic Pokemon premise could be done for home consoles.  Especially if they can tie the two games together so that they support each other rather than sapping each other, that would be a brilliant move if Nintendo were to pull it off.

Even if it best fits handhelds it wouldn't kill them to put one on consoles. It feels like X/Y just came out the other day and now we have Alpha and Omega on the same system.

Well to be fair, Alpha and Omega are remasters that let newcomers or people who skipped that gen experience it.  I'm just saying that ripping the handheld version formula whole sale and plopping it on consoles wouldn't be Nintendo's wisest move.  If they can make another Pokemon series that is similar but with key distinctions that also ties into the handhelds, that would be pretty great. 

For example, setting the console games in a fairly distant past before the idealic peace time that the handhelds are set in.  Having it before or right after the wars that have monuments in Gold and Silver for example.  This would open up a lot of things:  more mature stories, crafting (predates Pokeballs so you would have to purchase Appricorn balls or craft them yourself, etc), featuring Pokemon that may have gone extinct during this time period, etc.  You could also varry combat, for example having it be active time rather than vanilla turn based.  Also, since you may have pokemon in the consoles that are extinct in the handhelds, having a means by which you could "send" them to your handheld game would be cool, like burrying a timecapsue and then having to hunt down it's location in the handheld to get the now-extinct pokemon.  I think stuff like that would make the consoles different enough to be considered an addition and supplement rather than a replacement.