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Kai_Mao on 29 July 2016
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Ka-pi96 said:
Kai_Mao said:

I have wondered about that for a while. The thing about it is the trading system, communication, and online. How will that work considering how trading is more of a person to person type of thing. How can they balance the system so it isn't broken? The battling online can work as you could probably create requests to make certain battles. Though I also wonder about communication. People complain about lack of voice chat in Splatoon, but I can't imagine how complicated it could be to communicate with millions of people outside the Americas, especially in a Pokemon game where naming is pretty important. Plus, how could a home console game be accessible to children and be safe enough for them to access online and all? A good chunk of the audience are children after all.

I don't see why any of those things would have to be any different. Trading could work the exact same. Communication shouldn't be an issue, if it's fine on handhelds I don't see why it wouldn't be fine on a home console. And I think online could even be better. It could retain all the functions that are currently in Pokemon games but maybe add the option to invite another player in to your game world or something, similar to the way Minecraft does it I guess.

Even if for some reason home consoles were more dangerous for children to play (although I don't understand why they would be), a large part of the audience for stuff like Mario Kart is also children and that has had no problem with online play on consoles.

I guess that could work. But I expect fans would want an MMO and I don't know how communities behave in those types of games, let alone who actually plays MMOs besides hardcore fans and all. 

I would expect Pokemon, if it was an MMO, to be more about communication than Mario Kart. With about 740 Pokemon as of now, I do wonder how they could spread out without being overbearing or too empty. 

Probably the biggest thing it would lose is the portability factor. Pokemon is great for on-the-go play. If NX is a hybrid, then my worry would be less so about the portability factor since you can play in house or on the go and meet your friends and all, which is part of the interaction in Pokemon as shown in trailers and for many fans' experiences.