Arceus the Dragon
Destroyer of Fairy, Steel and Ice types.
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They don't have to test the switch. And no, Stars is not real.But then we'll have another Gen VI situation where the game was shiny. It lacked substance though. Rather test the Switch with a third version than jump right into the deep end with Gen VIII.
Stars will be main game and a third versionand real.
Difference is XY was the start of a whole new gen. We talking about putting the rest of gen 7 on a new handheld which will be very inconvenient for some. It is better to keep gen 7 on 3DS and introduce gen 8 on the Switch.For goodness sake, not this again.
The goal with Stars is not to sell Pokémon, it does that on practically its own. The goal is selling the Switch, which is a shiny new console Nintendo has to get off the ground.
Why do people assume there's some sort of rule about third versions being on the same console? There is no such rule, thinking there is is just appealing to tradition ("It was always this way, therefore it will stay this way"), which was considered a logical fallacy even before the pattern first broke in Gen V.
Did X/Y alienate fans who lacked 3DS's? You need a 3DS to play them, and the DS had more players while the 3DS needed to sell since it wasn't doing as great as it currently is at the time. Should XY have been limited to outdated hardware simply because people didn't want to buy 3DS's? Should Stars have to be limited to dated hardware because people didn't want to buy Switches?
What makes intergen and intragen splits so different? Both are moving to a new system to sell it.