Bolt the Cat said:
Flygon2071 said:
It may not be want people that want the RS remakes want but they are not the ones who makes the decision. Gamefreak can do that and some people will buy it for nostalgia (plus the original storyline of the 6th Gen game).
Right.
Anyway, I don't think they should do a straight remake of RS,
that'd be too boring. If you've already played the originals you're not getting much out of it, you already know what the game is like and it won't end up being that different.
Tell that to the of people who have purchased upwards of 20 million units FRLG/HGSS, combined.
Remakes are inevitable. GameFreak is a company, and, like all companies, must make money to survive. If remakes are determined to be profitable, then we will get remakes. Like it or not.
However, I do not think said remakes will occur in 2013. For this to occur, the games would have to be on the Nintendo DS family (see every previous generation: GameFreak has never jumped handhelds mid-generation). It'd be silly to put remakes of R/S on a console that has a variant on which you can play the originals. Imagine having "EarthRuby" and Ruby in the same Nintendo DS Lite. Silly. FRLG/HGSS were all released because, at the times that they were released, there was no way, using current Nintendo hardware, to explore those regions and plots/story lines.
For the games to be on the 3DS in 2013 would be highly unlikely as well. As others have mentioned, GameFreak has started each generation with a pair of games that introduce new Pokemon and mechanics. Then, later, remakes built on the same engine are released. It would kind of be "stealing the new generation's thunder" to release remakes on the 3DS before proper Generation VI titles.
That being said, it is time for Japan to get Generation VI games in 2013. The probable reasons why GameFreak was skittish to release B2W2 on the 3DS were that (1) they wanted to give players of BW the equal opportunity to buy B2W2 and (2) the staggering sales of the 3DS. At the time when development was in progress for B2W2, recall that the 3DS was not having the best start in terms of sales units. Thus, GameFreak wanted to release the games on the best-selling Nintendo DS. This optimizes sales.
That being said, the sales of the 3DS are up to par for a Generation VI release. Going back to Gen IV, D/P were released on 9/28/2006 in Japan. At that time, according to Nintendo's earnings reports for their fiscal quarter, 11.52 million units of the Nintendo DS had sold by that time (in Japan). As of 9/30/2012, according to Nintendo, the Nintendo 3DS has sold 7.94 million units in Japan. Considering that this does not include the 2012 holiday season or the next three quarters, this number is sure to go up to close to 11.52 million by September 2013, when we may get Generation VI remakes.
GameFreak released Trozei and Mystery Dungeon: Blue on the Nintendo DS system before Generation IV. Similarly, the 3DS has seen a Mystery Dungeon game and a Rumble game. We're seeing a pattern here.
tl;dr: It's primetime for Generation VI. Remakes seem unlikely in Generation V. To release another game for Nintendo DS at this point is ridiculous. Some even thought B2W2 were ridiculous.
It's time to let the Nintendo DS die.
