| PikaPikachu said: By the way, you should get heartgold or soul silver, There's 16 gyms (8 in johto, 8 in kanto) and it's one of the most refined pokemon games ever, plus you get to explore kanto and johto!! that's 2 regions in 1 game!!! |
My recommendation as well. Nintendo probably won't ever release Pokemon on one of it's eShops or Virtual Consoles, for one main reason.
Nintendo and GameFreak/Pokemon Company love the idea of Pokemon being portable and on the go, a 3DS eShop release would fit that, but adding in the ability to trade/battle others would make them have to do more work for the title then just a straight emulation, so it is more likely to implement all that is required they would just make either a eShop exclusive brand new Pokemon or forgo it all together and just focus on the retail software.
That doesn't mean a Pokemon main game won't happen appear as a download later, but it will be a few years probably and knowing Nintendo, like they did with the Ambassador games, the initial release will probably be a promotion or something, a little bit buggy and stays exclusive at least for its initial release if not just a limited time download.
