Pokemon Sun/ Moon leaked.

[DivinePaladin]

bigtakilla said:

DivinePaladin said:
My thing is that why would they announce Sun and Moon for 3DS if they're 7th gen? Yeah, I know BW2 came out after the 3DS during its struggle phase, but that was a sequel, this could very well be an entire new generation. Unless the NX is 3DS BC a sequel to gen 7 wouldn't happen feasibly (barring a port, which is entirely possible).

My current hypothesis is that this is a gen 6.5 game - a sequel to the current gen but styled as a new gen. Maybe we start in Spain a la Johto and end up visiting Kalos in the second half, and maybe there are another set of 50-60 Pokemon to fill out the gen. Either way for now I'm intrigued.

This is all under the assumption that this is a 3DS only game, mind you. Either way this is much more interesting than the boring ol' Z reveal I was expecting.

This is really an issue if they are trying to drive massive sales for the NX (for people who are expecting it to arrive this year). Bringing a cross gen title isn't really the best way to go about it.

This was their time to really get the hype train rolling. I was figuring if a part of the NX (just the handheld component), or the whole of the NX would be releasing this year we would get a glimpse in this (the first of the year) Direct. Nintendo could easily show off some software and keep their fortress of solitude for their hardware with little to no repercussion. This doesn't seem like it will be the case though. 

Well TPC - or rather GameFreak in this case - would have the say in which platform it goes to. They have to make their investment back after all; that was primarily the reason BW2 was DS to my knowledge, because GF simply didn't trust the 3DS yet. So I wasn't really ever solidly expecting Pokemon at NX launch because I can't recall a time that's ever happened before. GF likes to wait until the install base is juicy, and it doesn't seem like Nintendo can really get them to budge on that.