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Ganoncrotch on 19 January 2016
PerturbedKitty said:
ganoncrotch said:

 


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

He is saying directly that there are less potential consoles which the new versions of RBY could trade with yes, the reason for the link cable being mentioned is that while there was obviously more of the original game boys in existance than there is 2ds/3ds/3dsxl/n3ds/n3dsxl (fuck you nintendo) not everyone who owned an original gameboy/pocket or Color could trade mon with it, if they didn't have a link cable they wouldn't fit into the criterea of what the OP is suggesting.

 

 

 

Say there is 150 million units of a console out there, but 1 in 3 can trade, then the potential pool of people you can trade with is less than 50million

If there is 50 million units of a console sold, but all 50m can trade! Tis easy... but there is a ton more to factor in here, mostly being the runaway success of the originals is not going to happen in 2016 for the old games, just not happening.





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PerturbedKitty on 19 January 2016
ganoncrotch said:
PerturbedKitty said:

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

He is saying directly that there are less potential consoles which the new versions of RBY could trade with yes, the reason for the link cable being mentioned is that while there was obviously more of the original game boys in existance than there is 2ds/3ds/3dsxl/n3ds/n3dsxl (fuck you nintendo) not everyone who owned an original gameboy/pocket or Color could trade mon with it, if they didn't have a link cable they wouldn't fit into the criterea of what the OP is suggesting.

 

 

 

Say there is 150 million units of a console out there, but 1 in 3 can trade, then the potential pool of people you can trade with is less than 50million

If there is 50 million units of a console sold, but all 50m can trade! Tis easy... but there is a ton more to factor in here, mostly being the runaway success of the originals is not going to happen in 2016 for the old games, just not happening.

so actually finding people with the game is the problem.



Ganoncrotch on 19 January 2016
PerturbedKitty said:
ganoncrotch said:
PerturbedKitty said:

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

He is saying directly that there are less potential consoles which the new versions of RBY could trade with yes, the reason for the link cable being mentioned is that while there was obviously more of the original game boys in existance than there is 2ds/3ds/3dsxl/n3ds/n3dsxl (fuck you nintendo) not everyone who owned an original gameboy/pocket or Color could trade mon with it, if they didn't have a link cable they wouldn't fit into the criterea of what the OP is suggesting.

 

 

 

Say there is 150 million units of a console out there, but 1 in 3 can trade, then the potential pool of people you can trade with is less than 50million

If there is 50 million units of a console sold, but all 50m can trade! Tis easy... but there is a ton more to factor in here, mostly being the runaway success of the originals is not going to happen in 2016 for the old games, just not happening.

so actually finding people with the game is the problem.

 

Fuck knows, I'd say it would be, unless you and a friend knew ye were going to be buying it to play through I really doubt many will buy these originals other than for some nostalgia, unless they include the Pokemon stadium ability of the Duduo or Dudrio GBC for lightning speed grinding.

But that is what the OP was suggesting when he created the thread, not that the actual act of trading pokemon would be harder, your report for the name being clickbait rubbish is still fine!



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QUAKECore89 on 19 January 2016

At least we don't have link cable!



Ganoncrotch on 19 January 2016
BasilZero said:

So there's no similar trading system to the last 3 gens :(!?

 

I actually liked the GTS system n_n

The blind trading thing on that was fun at times, self and partner put up a few lvl 100 Magikarps when we figured a way of modifying pokemon values to it, just for the slow sink in of someone thinking about how it will still be good when it becomes Gyarados and then realizing... 

 

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PerturbedKitty on 19 January 2016
ganoncrotch said:
PerturbedKitty said:
ganoncrotch said:
PerturbedKitty said:

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

He is saying directly that there are less potential consoles which the new versions of RBY could trade with yes, the reason for the link cable being mentioned is that while there was obviously more of the original game boys in existance than there is 2ds/3ds/3dsxl/n3ds/n3dsxl (fuck you nintendo) not everyone who owned an original gameboy/pocket or Color could trade mon with it, if they didn't have a link cable they wouldn't fit into the criterea of what the OP is suggesting.

 

 

 

Say there is 150 million units of a console out there, but 1 in 3 can trade, then the potential pool of people you can trade with is less than 50million

If there is 50 million units of a console sold, but all 50m can trade! Tis easy... but there is a ton more to factor in here, mostly being the runaway success of the originals is not going to happen in 2016 for the old games, just not happening.

so actually finding people with the game is the problem.

 

Fuck knows, I'd say it would be, unless you and a friend knew ye were going to be buying it to play through I really doubt many will buy these originals other than for some nostalgia, unless they include the Pokemon stadium ability of the Duduo or Dudrio GBC for lightning speed grinding.

But that is what the OP was suggesting when he created the thread, not that the actual act of trading pokemon would be harder, your report for the name being clickbait rubbish is still fine!

lol. i never report anybody no matter what. its always been a personal rule of mine. i have not once ever reported anybody for anything.





Platina on 19 January 2016

I won't be getting the game, but without online, trading will definitely be more difficult..



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Ganoncrotch on 19 January 2016
PerturbedKitty said:
ganoncrotch said:
PerturbedKitty said:
ganoncrotch said:
PerturbedKitty said:

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

He is saying directly that there are less potential consoles which the new versions of RBY could trade with yes, the reason for the link cable being mentioned is that while there was obviously more of the original game boys in existance than there is 2ds/3ds/3dsxl/n3ds/n3dsxl (fuck you nintendo) not everyone who owned an original gameboy/pocket or Color could trade mon with it, if they didn't have a link cable they wouldn't fit into the criterea of what the OP is suggesting.

 

 

 

Say there is 150 million units of a console out there, but 1 in 3 can trade, then the potential pool of people you can trade with is less than 50million

If there is 50 million units of a console sold, but all 50m can trade! Tis easy... but there is a ton more to factor in here, mostly being the runaway success of the originals is not going to happen in 2016 for the old games, just not happening.

so actually finding people with the game is the problem.

 

Fuck knows, I'd say it would be, unless you and a friend knew ye were going to be buying it to play through I really doubt many will buy these originals other than for some nostalgia, unless they include the Pokemon stadium ability of the Duduo or Dudrio GBC for lightning speed grinding.

But that is what the OP was suggesting when he created the thread, not that the actual act of trading pokemon would be harder, your report for the name being clickbait rubbish is still fine!

lol. i never report anybody no matter what. its always been a personal rule of mine. i have not once ever reported anybody for anything.

 

It's not a bad thing to report people for being daft on here tho, helps direct the mods to stupid threads to stop things before they get out of hand.

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Porcupine_I on 19 January 2016

I'm glad they got rid of the Link cables. Countless Links died for their production.



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FunFan 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.

Well, actually. By the time Gen1 happened, Bill had already built a faultless wireless system to transport Pokemon. Thats why you don't carry more than 6 pokemon. Any extra pokemon gets auto-transferred to your PC. There has never been any loose packages, so they cannot run wild.





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