Platinum Lucario
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Okay, Reggie Fils-Amie has just confirmed that the NX is basically a home console. It's not even a handheld, but that doesn't rule out the possibility of a new handheld to be announced at the same time as the NX hardware gets announced.
But having said that, Game Freak has already stated that they want to keep up with the newest technology. And Junichi Masuda has already said that he is working on using the New 3DS hardware, which points out that he plans on using the full hardware capability. And to do that would require releasing a brand new generation, which is Generation VII! And this is because the Generation VI engine is outdated and runs on old hardware and has a lot of limitations. As well as the Generation VI engine itself is not designed to handle changes in it's game data architecture, but rather to re-address the memory in the RAM itself to fix bugs. It's also not built to support DLC either, because it's simply not built to re-point the data to any other data on the SD Card that is not in RAM, it can only use updates to re-address the data in RAM to any data that is already in RAM. Hence as to why a Generation VII is needed.
But having said that, Game Freak has already stated that they want to keep up with the newest technology. And Junichi Masuda has already said that he is working on using the New 3DS hardware, which points out that he plans on using the full hardware capability. And to do that would require releasing a brand new generation, which is Generation VII! And this is because the Generation VI engine is outdated and runs on old hardware and has a lot of limitations. As well as the Generation VI engine itself is not designed to handle changes in it's game data architecture, but rather to re-address the memory in the RAM itself to fix bugs. It's also not built to support DLC either, because it's simply not built to re-point the data to any other data on the SD Card that is not in RAM, it can only use updates to re-address the data in RAM to any data that is already in RAM. Hence as to why a Generation VII is needed.