Plot Twist: Finding people to trade Pokémon with in R/B/Y on the 3DS will be harder than on the original GameBoy

[Ganoncrotch]

PerturbedKitty said:

ganoncrotch said:

 

Instead of there being potentially 150million consoles capable of playing the game there is closer to 60million meaning that with the OP's logic that you would be 3 times less likely to encounter someone with a 3ds and pokemon than you would have a gameboy/gameboy color with a copy of the original games.

For this to stand even remotely true tho 1 in 3 people with the original would have had to own a link cable, and from my own memories of the time it was far less than that, considering that every model of the 3ds (and 2ds) is capable of wirelessly trading Pokemon I think the number of trade target potential is the same if not higher this time around....

 

 

All that said I don't think these games will be anywhere near the run away success of the original gameboys games nor will people care enough to get back into the trading and battling scene of the original games now when you have omega ruby and Saphire on the market and of course X and Y.

i still don't understand wtf link cables have to do with any of this shit.

wait, is the OP just saying that it will be harder to find people to trade with, not necessarily the process of trading? if so, reported for misleading thread title

He is saying directly that there are less potential consoles which the new versions of RBY could trade with yes, the reason for the link cable being mentioned is that while there was obviously more of the original game boys in existance than there is 2ds/3ds/3dsxl/n3ds/n3dsxl (fuck you nintendo) not everyone who owned an original gameboy/pocket or Color could trade mon with it, if they didn't have a link cable they wouldn't fit into the criterea of what the OP is suggesting.

 

 

 

Say there is 150 million units of a console out there, but 1 in 3 can trade, then the potential pool of people you can trade with is less than 50million

If there is 50 million units of a console sold, but all 50m can trade! Tis easy... but there is a ton more to factor in here, mostly being the runaway success of the originals is not going to happen in 2016 for the old games, just not happening.