Mitja said:
I've had this discussion for a few years now. And it finally shut up after XY proved my point. And now we're months away for even THOSE games.
Anyhow. I still sincerely hope that the concept of "remakes" was finished with HGSS. Gamefreak can do better than that. I mean they don't have to resort to copy-pasting every single outdated game to the current standard, they can do actually new stuff and incorporate nostalgia to milk more cash in that.
They have proven with BW2 that they are more creative than this.
I don't even see how continuing to remake the newer games makes any sense since the remakes of the original games are just as outdated (FRLG are as old as RSE)
The main reason these games were remade were to make the Pokemon in the games more accessible. e.g. iirc Lugia and Ho-Oh were events in FRLG. Same with the starters; there was no way to get the Gen.1 starters in Gen.3 (unless there was some event I don't know about), or the Legendary Birds.
Also, there was only one way to get the Johto starters in Emerald; you had to catch every Pokemon in the Regional Dex and even then you only got one of the starters.
So for evidence for a remake we have:
-The most recent games Groudon, Ho-Oh & Rayquaza have been in were HG/SS (excluding events) and not being available in B/W/2 at all
-The starters, again, having been most recent in HG/SS (excluding events)
-Only region not having been playable on the (3)DS
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the X and Y logos are blue and red so r/s/e remakes confirmed
However, the fact that the Latis and Regis were in B2/W2 might mean that Groudon & Kyogre could be accessible in X & Y (unlikely, since most version mascots can usually be caught in their respective game; only exception I can think of is the Weather Trio being in HG/SS).