SoulSilver said:
I just really think its too early for Gen 6.
Did you consider that the games would come out late 2013 at most?
That will be pretty much close to average, especially when gen V was doomed from the beginning to never get the chance to be dragged out a bit with remake-stuff.
I mean, when they decided to continue on DS instead of waiting on 3DS for BW, they were obviously fully aware the generation would be shorter and so planned it as such.
Its still gonna be the gen to take the longest to come out after its handheld.
SoulSilver said:
You really think there's been 0 hints to R/S remakes?
Yes. There is nothing that stands out from the casual references that we always get as the games take place in the same fictional universe.
SoulSilver said:
For example; some of Hoenn's music can be found in the Generation V games (Lillycove and Rustboro specifically). Why include R/S music out of all the games they have to pick from? Why not Kanto? That's where Pokemon began so its music would make more of an impact, would it not? We all know the beeps and bloops from Lavender Town, yet they weren't thinking of anything about Kanto, Johto, or even Sinnoh. Nope, they gave us music from Hoenn.
Johto music could be found in RSE, so what. And those didn't even get used for Sevii islands in FRLG or anything, so this has never been anywhere close to an argument.
SoulSilver said:
Not to mention all the focus that the weather trio has been receiving as of late. The Dream World houses had received Groudon, Kyogre, and Rayquaza plush dolls recently and its kind of curious why GameFreak would promote those 3 if they weren't going to be a focal point of Pokemon soon.
There was a 10 year anniversary of RS game release in Japan. They always do at least some event. Besides if they planned anything related to Hoenn anytime soon, THAT would have been the best occasion to announce developement.
They released a special Mewtwo last year for no serious reason, and obviously no one started suggesting anything about game developement.
In fact the legendaries being given out as events would be the thing they would avoid doing if they were going to be the mascots of upcoming games. Just look back at pre-HGSS times. They treated Ho-oh and Lugia like they never existed so it was a bigger impact when the remakes got revealed.
SoulSilver said:
There's also the fact that some Hoenn legendaries have been in B2/W2. You may say that nullifies the possibility of Ruby and Sapphire remakes but recall Platinum, it had the Kanto birds yet those birds still found their way into HeartGold and SoulSilver merely a year later. So no, Hoenn legendaries being in Black 2 and White 2 does not signify that Hoenn won't be remade, in fact its quite the opposite.
You're making a strawman here.
Because the casual legends (580/600TBS) are known to be thrown around into random postgames with no careful plan, but rather for the "extra legendary" effect when they aren't native already.
We could however discuss the actual mascots (~680), and about which of them haven't been available for the longest time for example. Although that doesn't help your point.
SoulSilver said:
Also remember at the end of the Hoenn series for the anime May said she was traveling to Johto to compete in Pokemon Contests there. Sure, it was a few years later, but we got Johto remakes. Now remember where Dawn said she was going to? Hoenn. Why not follow in May's footsteps whom she became friends with and go to Johto herself? Why Hoenn? Possibly because this is a hint that Hoenn will be important to fans. Maybe not in the anime (we didn't see May in Johto), but for the games. You'd be silly to think that the Anime writing staff doesn't receive tidbits from GameFreak so they know what to do with the anime.
I'm not even sure they knew about gamefreak developing GS remakes when they made May travel to Johto. She just went there.
They just didn't have that many choices did they. Shes just been in Hoenn, the group went to Kanto, so they had the choice between saying she went to some "distant land" or to Johto. Therefore GS remakes??
Then Dawn went to Hoenn. Years ago.
This is not a hint at future games, its called referencing stuff thats known to exist in the same fictional universe.
I knew GS remakes would come. But not because of whatever the Anime did.
Rather because there were SOLID reasons to believe that.
SoulSilver said:
All in all, so much attention has been panned over to Hoenn lately and I doubt its a mere coincidence. There's got to be a reason for it. I know everyone and their grandmas will say you can do Gen IV -> Gen V transfers to get all the Pokemon, but that's only how fans think. That is not how a business thinks. I haven't taken any business classes and I know this. Its common sense, businesses will only promote what makes them money.
And you know RS remakes at this point would be better profit for gamefreak than "insert anything else" based on what?
I can just as well argue gen VI would sell better, until either of us makes surveys in japan or something.
But that aside, you're ignoring that the "RSE-nostalgia cash-cow" is not gonna go away if they don't milk it this instant. For all we know, the demand will be even higher after gen VI, especially if they start throwing around ACTUAL hints IN gen VI games and marketing.
