Yeah well, before they've had technically limited machines to work with, making it impossible to pull off 3D battles (well, maybe they could've done it on the DS, but it wouldn't have looked so hot, lol). Now they have the 3Ds to work with. The name of the system alone should be enough to convince them to at least give it a try. Besides, that last sentence that you quoted said that personality argument was only ONE of the reasons. I see no reason why they couldn't do it now. It's not like it would make the game worse. Quite the opposite, in fact. In all honesty, the whole 'oh, but it won't look as nice if we do it in 3D' argument you mentioned seems like a load of crap, pardon my French. It doesn't even add up, I mean, when 3D images are used they'd look more lively and individual than the static 2D sprites they've been using up till now. Besides, 3D models are created by humans, same as sprites, so there's absolutely no way, no way at all, they'd have to look less individual than sprites. That's just like saying Toy Story is generic and has no personality, while, say, Tom & Jerry is not, because they're 2D hand-drawn catoons. It's nonsense.

That 3DS Pokedex should be a good indicator that they have a treat in store for us, those models are gorgeous.

>Even greater online functionality: Black/White was a step in the right direction but they need to be even more adventurous in their implementations.

>Some more depth to the combat: Unless I missed something, Black/White added nothing other than 3v3 battles to combat. We need some more depth, there is too much disparity between pokemon in battles where the community has to create their own tournament tier lists to keep matters in check. I'm not saying I want to see a Butterfree take out a Metagross, but you should know what I mean. Something along the lines of Pokemon Abilities. The dream world abilities added a nice touch, such as Blaziken's new teachable ability making it just as viable as Infernape etc. but they need to go further.

>Far too formulaic: How many times can we go to the gyms and stop a bunch of pokemon fundamentalists or thieves. Keep the gyms in, but mix the story up a bit by adding a plethora of contests and areas. Ash had so many events and tournaments that weren't in the games, why not do the same for the games. Remember the Orange islands?

They may stick with an isometric view but they have been moving to 3D models in the last titles. And see that sat down and make detailed 3D models for the Pokedex app for the 3DS, it does seem likely they may go with a Pokemon Grey. But for the first new gen I'm guessing they will go "view" name instead of colors to fit with the 3D aspect.

And yes it will cause a sales spike. All main Pokemon games so far have caused it for their handheld platform so far.

 Do you mean interface by battling interface ? Becuase if so, all they have to do is use the interface they did with Pokemon Colosseum.

i have played every single pokemon game and i must say i am tired of all the new pokemon. the 5th gen pokemon were weird and repetitive. I seriously wish they would make a 5 region 40 badge game, or make new regions but no new pokemon. i'm okay with the same old top down view and old battle style.

Real Pokemon games for real gamers! :D

I'm looking forward to improved online functionality - the new friends list makes it automatically better

OK.

Points to consider:

- Predict a name for the next Pokemon games :p pOKEMON gREY WILL BE NEXT pOKEMON -

- Will this provide a substantial hardware boost to the 3DS? YES MUCH MORE THAN mh3

- When do you think Pokemon 3DS will be announced / released? GREY WILL BE aNNOUNCED THIS YEAR RELEASED THIS HERE JAPAN NEXT YEAR REST OF THE WORLD!

- Will you be buying it? NO

- Do you think that it will incorporate something like what we've seen in Pokedex 3D? Ie. 3D battle sprites? YES IT WILL INCORPORATE POKEDEX 3D GREY VERSION. 0

NEXT ORIGINAL POKEMON GAMES WILL BE:

RAINBOW and MONO!

- Predict a name for the next Pokemon games :p
Pokemon Lilac and Moose :D

- Will this provide a substantial hardware boost to the 3DS?
You better believe it.

- When do you think Pokemon 3DS will be announced / released?
This year, either at E3 or a Nintendo conference in Q3/Q4

- Will you be buying it?
You better believe it.

- Do you think that it will incorporate something like what we've seen in Pokedex 3D? Ie. 3D battle sprites?
They have to attempt to move the franchise forward visually. They now have a portable capable of doing some nice 3D graphics so this has to be incorporated some way. Animal Crossing style mix between 2D and 3D perhaps.