My thoughts on the rumored "Pokemon Stars"

[Nem]

Hiku said:

Nem said:
I doubt it alot aswell. Pokemon mainline titles are huge undertakings for game freak. I don't see them having the resources to develop one plus an HD title on top of it.

Would love for it to be true, but i just don't believe it. Pokemon stars may be a thing, but i doubt its a mainline title. Probably another spin-off.

It's not a new entry though. It's a third version of Sun and Moon. Most of the work is already done.
As for HD, they likely already have high res textures in the 3DS games. Even back during DS, developers would make the textures much higher res than the system allowed, and then scale them down. That's why things like this are possible with emulators:

This is what the game looks like natively on DS:

The reason the emulators can do that is because the high res assets were already in the game.

In other words, it shouldn't be a big undertaking by Gamefreak to have this game ready by 2017.

That was a cinematic, not a game. But, it's too much of a leap for me to believe gamefreak will make a home console pokemon. Theres no precedent to it. So, i need more than just a rumor.