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Johnw1104 on 27 January 2015
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Ostro said:
curl-6 said:

if we could figure out a way to make that happen on consoles it would be an option on the future, but right now that’s just not possible. If you've ever been in the audience at the Pokémon World Championships, that's my ideal for Pokémon, all these people gathering together and playing with each other. If there were a way that a console could enable that, it might be an option, but right now, handheld it is."


Not sure but isn't Pokemon on handhelds internet-enabled as well? Just add a LAN option to home consoles and let players decide if they want to play online with voice-chat or local with other players. What's so hard about that ... it's not even anymore different to the handhelds then. It's not like you magically meet people when you own a handheld and a Pokemon game.

It is Internet enabled, though there seem to be benefits to having friends that play. I played Pokemon Y recently (my first since the gen 2) and there was this "Friend Safari" feature at the end that sounded quite fun but you needed to know people who also played to use it (I didn't).

I guess what I find confusing is why the handheld version can't continue as the competitive version with the in-person tournaments and the like while also having some home console take on the game. I know it wouldn't dissuade me from playing the true handheld release and lord knows those competitive types and the people already in the community would not suddenly abandon all of that because there's a Pokemon game on the Wii U.

As was said before, I wouldn't be surprised if they're just waiting for that (possible) next system that was rumored to link the handheld and console in some way... I don't see why we should have to wait for that, though, as it seems a console take on the franchise would not compromise his vision for it.