RE: Will X & Y be backwards compatible with B/W?
I get your point however, mind you I've spent nearly 6-7 years EV/IV Training 20+ Pokemon (without a cheating device) since Pearl/Platinum back in 2008 and for those Pokemon to go to waste with Game Freak saying, "Okay you've got all these Pokemon that you're now emotionally attached to, say goodbye to them, you're going to have to start your new adventure." With that much time spent getting the best Natures, Movesets, and Stats for all the Pokemon I've worked really hard on I'd rather stick with the old adventure screw the new one. I would lose a great deal of faith in Game Freak If there's no backwards compatibility, heck the Pokemon video game franchise is the 2nd best selling video game franchise in the world next to the Call of Duty video game franchise by Activision. I do still agree that the people who have been hacking and cheating through the video games have been ruining the spirit of the Pokemon video games as a whole but to me it doesn't justify having to do a square one reboot with the franchise.
I remember renting Pokemon Yellow at my local Blockbuster (before they went out of business) a decade ago and several years after realizing that the technology to battle anyone in the country and the world wasn't there yet especially when I found out that you weren't able to import Pokemon from Gen I and Gen II to Gen III due to a major overhaul in game mechanics and design made me lose interest in the Pokemon video game franchise at least that was until the franchise made a huge comeback with Diamond/Pearl/Platinum in Gen IV with the Gen II remakes of Gold/Silver with HeartGold/SoulSilver. It seems to me like alot of people are fed up with the current direction the franchise is going and they want Nintendo and Game Freak to create an official MMORPG for Pokemon which they won't do to where you can still play it on the go via smartphone or tablet device. Most of them are unofficial however Pokemon Showdown seems to be the most popular as you're not required to spend as much time putting together a solid competitive team and just battle on the fly as easy as it was back in Gen I and II.
You're right there are very good titles being released for the 3DS in 2014 like Super Smash Bros. 4 featuring Mega Man with hopefully Classic Sonic over Modern Sonic (doubtful though), and of course you still have your Mario and Zelda remakes but that just goes to show that Nintendo only seems to be relying on what's already successful instead of coming up with something innovative and brand new because they are playing it way too safe with a terrible global economy right now, the American Film Industry is doing the same thing as well too If you haven't already noticed. As for Nintendo as a company even If they do fail with the 3DS and Wii U, Nintendo would just end up becoming a software company like Sega is right now developing titles for Sony and Microsoft unless they have enough revenue to develop another console or handheld which would take about 4-5+ years to develop while still falling behind the PS4 and XBox One.
Back to the Pokemon video game franchise as it is now, it wouldn't take much to break the series depending on the amount of changes and developments being made for it. I know a former PokeTuber known as MTGXerxes who is apart of that Pokemon niche who refused to go from Gen IV to Gen V due to how 75% of the Unova Region Pokemon designs were very uninspired and lazy. The same result happened with my LGS who used to play the Pokemon TCG before BW - Emerging Powers came along. Gen VI with XY seems to be stepping away from that thank God but still If you're not able to import old Pokemon over to XY then I can definitely see the games as a rental via GameFly or Redbox but If you're able to transfer then I can definitely see it as a must buy. I would still like to see Nintendo to get rid of region locking for the majority of their Japanese made video games to import over to North America but sadly that's not going to happen because of how the center of the video game universe has shifted in the last 3 decades over from East to West with more Westen game developers when Japan overall makes better video games than America does although America did make better games in the 90's than they do today.
NoDice said:While I agree with your first paragraph, and I also think its a good idea to prevent transferring due to those exact reasons- I have RNG'd mons which are legal (the pro's use them, like Ray Rizzo- our current champ) and those are OK. Action Replay'd mons are the issue, as well as people that clone with AR or use the fakeGTS to get mons that are clones. Just wanted to state the difference between those there for no apparent reason..
I get your point however, mind you I've spent nearly 6-7 years EV/IV Training 20+ Pokemon (without a cheating device) since Pearl/Platinum back in 2008 and for those Pokemon to go to waste with Game Freak saying, "Okay you've got all these Pokemon that you're now emotionally attached to, say goodbye to them, you're going to have to start your new adventure." With that much time spent getting the best Natures, Movesets, and Stats for all the Pokemon I've worked really hard on I'd rather stick with the old adventure screw the new one. I would lose a great deal of faith in Game Freak If there's no backwards compatibility, heck the Pokemon video game franchise is the 2nd best selling video game franchise in the world next to the Call of Duty video game franchise by Activision. I do still agree that the people who have been hacking and cheating through the video games have been ruining the spirit of the Pokemon video games as a whole but to me it doesn't justify having to do a square one reboot with the franchise.
I remember renting Pokemon Yellow at my local Blockbuster (before they went out of business) a decade ago and several years after realizing that the technology to battle anyone in the country and the world wasn't there yet especially when I found out that you weren't able to import Pokemon from Gen I and Gen II to Gen III due to a major overhaul in game mechanics and design made me lose interest in the Pokemon video game franchise at least that was until the franchise made a huge comeback with Diamond/Pearl/Platinum in Gen IV with the Gen II remakes of Gold/Silver with HeartGold/SoulSilver. It seems to me like alot of people are fed up with the current direction the franchise is going and they want Nintendo and Game Freak to create an official MMORPG for Pokemon which they won't do to where you can still play it on the go via smartphone or tablet device. Most of them are unofficial however Pokemon Showdown seems to be the most popular as you're not required to spend as much time putting together a solid competitive team and just battle on the fly as easy as it was back in Gen I and II.
NoDice said:
You're right there are very good titles being released for the 3DS in 2014 like Super Smash Bros. 4 featuring Mega Man with hopefully Classic Sonic over Modern Sonic (doubtful though), and of course you still have your Mario and Zelda remakes but that just goes to show that Nintendo only seems to be relying on what's already successful instead of coming up with something innovative and brand new because they are playing it way too safe with a terrible global economy right now, the American Film Industry is doing the same thing as well too If you haven't already noticed. As for Nintendo as a company even If they do fail with the 3DS and Wii U, Nintendo would just end up becoming a software company like Sega is right now developing titles for Sony and Microsoft unless they have enough revenue to develop another console or handheld which would take about 4-5+ years to develop while still falling behind the PS4 and XBox One.
Back to the Pokemon video game franchise as it is now, it wouldn't take much to break the series depending on the amount of changes and developments being made for it. I know a former PokeTuber known as MTGXerxes who is apart of that Pokemon niche who refused to go from Gen IV to Gen V due to how 75% of the Unova Region Pokemon designs were very uninspired and lazy. The same result happened with my LGS who used to play the Pokemon TCG before BW - Emerging Powers came along. Gen VI with XY seems to be stepping away from that thank God but still If you're not able to import old Pokemon over to XY then I can definitely see the games as a rental via GameFly or Redbox but If you're able to transfer then I can definitely see it as a must buy. I would still like to see Nintendo to get rid of region locking for the majority of their Japanese made video games to import over to North America but sadly that's not going to happen because of how the center of the video game universe has shifted in the last 3 decades over from East to West with more Westen game developers when Japan overall makes better video games than America does although America did make better games in the 90's than they do today.
