Why did Pokemon even jump to 3D?

[Barkley]

p0isonparadise said:

mZuzek said:

Having the national Pokédex available in every game wasn't broke, though. Pretty sure this is a case of them, quite clearly, breaking it.

Ruby/Sapphire didn't have a national dex as you could not transfer older Pokemon into the game until FireRed/LeafGreen came out. I expect the same thing for Sword/Shield to happen next year when the Diamond/Pearl remakes are released. 

Either way sales for Sword/Shield will prove if the majority care or not, or it was just a vocal minority. 

Ruby/Sapphire wasn't patched to add National Dex. It always had it. You just couldn't trade between GBA and the original Gameboy games. That's not the case this time, they have a "pokebank", a paid service, the entire purpose of which is to store your pokemon and load them into the games.

And no sales won't prove anything, because most people who do care will still buy the thing anyway.