RE: Pokémon X / Y : Questions and Answers
Blob55 said:
Dragon Pokémon said:
I don't think they will, no. If anything, they'd make a new Pokedex app, but as far as I know GameFreak has no plans to. If they did, however, it'd take quite a while depending on how many Pokemon we get this gen and how complicated their designs are.
Can't they just make it a DLC add-on? Like when it was first released, you had to buy Pokémon from gens 1-4.
It's not just adding new Pokemon on this time tho.
The main reason the DLC adding on worked last time was because all the movepool stuff had already been established in that generation, so there wasn't any need to change anything about the Pokemon (other than certain Formes being included, and 3 new Pokemon being included)
This time however, they have to change the Pokemons weakness charts to include Fairy (and potential Ghost/Dark normal damage), go through old Pokemons movepools and change them and in some cases actually change their types to include Fairy.
They also have to make 3d models of around 90 new Pokemon, including Mega Evos.
And they can't just 'add on the 6th generation mons', because of the changes above.
If they add one thing from the 6th generation, they have to add everything.
That said, we don't know what the actual ingame Pokedex is like in X/Y. It could actually be a suitable replacement for 'Dex 3d.
If that's not the case, then I think the most likely thing is that they'll either a) just leave it be and not do anything about it, or b) make an entirely new free app, similar to the original Pokedex 3d, exclusive to 6th gen.