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Forums - Nintendo - Plot Twist: Finding people to trade Pokémon with in R/B/Y on the 3DS will be harder than on the original GameBoy

Luke888 on 19 January 2016

So everyone is happy about the included possibility in the virtual console version of Pokémon R/B/Y to trade pokémon but there's a but:

If we consider the fact that the original games were available to play on both the GameBoy (110/120M units sold) and the GBC (around 50M units sold) It's clear that the original instal base is extremely bigger than the one on the 3DS. Tough many games proved that it isn't the instal base that proves the sales Pokémon R/B/Y were some of the best selling games ever on the Game Boy, so I would be surprised to see them topping the same numbers after so many years. This means that there will be a significant increase in difficulty to trade pokémon in R/B/Y, even if we consider that back then not everyone owned a Link Cable...



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LipeJJ on 19 January 2016

Won't the new version have online trading? If so, I can't see why it would be more difficult.



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ninjapirate42 on 19 January 2016
LipeJJ said:
Won't the new version have online trading? If so, I can't see why it would be more difficult.

 

I think it's just wireless trading though I hope I'm wrong.



PerturbedKitty on 19 January 2016

what? where is the part that shows how itll be more difficult?



Ganoncrotch on 19 January 2016
PerturbedKitty said:
what? where is the part that shows how itll be more difficult?

 


Instead of there being potentially 150million consoles capable of playing the game there is closer to 60million meaning that with the OP's logic that you would be 3 times less likely to encounter someone with a 3ds and pokemon than you would have a gameboy/gameboy color with a copy of the original games.

For this to stand even remotely true tho 1 in 3 people with the original would have had to own a link cable, and from my own memories of the time it was far less than that, considering that every model of the 3ds (and 2ds) is capable of wirelessly trading Pokemon I think the number of trade target potential is the same if not higher this time around....

 

 

All that said I don't think these games will be anywhere near the run away success of the original gameboys games nor will people care enough to get back into the trading and battling scene of the original games now when you have omega ruby and Saphire on the market and of course X and Y.



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Frogger on 19 January 2016

Never cared about completing the dex. Extremely boring to me.



LipeJJ on 19 January 2016
ninjapirate42 said:
LipeJJ said:
Won't the new version have online trading? If so, I can't see why it would be more difficult.

 

I think it's just wireless trading though I hope I'm wrong.

 


Damn! In that case it will be more difficult indeed. :c



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Ultrashroomz on 19 January 2016

At least we don't have to bring a link cable everywhere.

Online trading would've been nice, but it was probably very hard to implement.



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Ganoncrotch on 19 January 2016
RolStoppable said:
Of course it was going to be harder. With a link cable, the Pokémon only had to go through a tunnel to arrive in another player's game, but with wireless communication there is a good chance that some of the little bastards will run off into the wild.

 

I wonder will it still work if you click off your wireless after the first pokemon has been transfered over will you be able to clone pokemons with it! Or if anyone remembers . "Saving do not turn off the pow"



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PerturbedKitty on 19 January 2016
ganoncrotch said:
PerturbedKitty said:
what? where is the part that shows how itll be more difficult?

 


Instead of there being potentially 150million consoles capable of playing the game there is closer to 60million meaning that with the OP's logic that you would be 3 times less likely to encounter someone with a 3ds and pokemon than you would have a gameboy/gameboy color with a copy of the original games.

For this to stand even remotely true tho 1 in 3 people with the original would have had to own a link cable, and from my own memories of the time it was far less than that, considering that every model of the 3ds (and 2ds) is capable of wirelessly trading Pokemon I think the number of trade target potential is the same if not higher this time around....

 

 

All that said I don't think these games will be anywhere near the run away success of the original gameboys games nor will people care enough to get back into the trading and battling scene of the original games now when you have omega ruby and Saphire on the market and of course X and Y.

i still don't understand wtf link cables have to do with any of this shit.

wait, is the OP just saying that it will be harder to find people to trade with, not necessarily the process of trading? if so, reported for misleading thread title