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Junichi Masuda to make announcement on 'Pokémon Smash!' Sept. ...

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No, they've proven over and over that they can make the same game, and that single game formula just happens to be great.

True... but hey it works. Pokemon is one of those game that doesn't need to be changed up a lot.. add a few pokemon and other things
 

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After some consideration, I'm beginning to think that if this is a main series game, it will be Pokemon Gray. And it will be on the 3DS. Pokemon is the major driving force behind Nintendo's handhelds. With the 3DS struggling, Game Freak is under pressure to deliver a Pokemon game. So they will release Gray, modified to take advantage of the 3DS's features. It's too soon since BW for Game Freak to have developed a new game from scratch, even if they are RS remakes. Diamond and Pearl shows that Game Freak are useless with new hardware.

A third version being released so soon after the originals is not unprecedented, as Crystal was released only one year after Gold/Silver.
 

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Gamefreak doesn't make the side games... So if Masuda has anything to do with a game being revealed it will be a main game... and if you think about it i fMasuda is involved it has a high chance of being a R/S remake since he designed Hoenn right?
No - Masuda is currently the Director of the main series. I'd say there's pretty much no chance of this being a R/S remake. Why? Because he's appearing in relation to Mewtwo, which may see a game announcement as well. Mewtwo is being used to promote Psycho Drive/Hail Blizzard...the mascot of the Hail Blizzard side is Kyurem. Kyurem being the third in the trio of Reshiram, Zekrom and Kyurem.

Which is why they may not be a third version for that reason, not to mention Masuda being more interested in the Vita.
Nintendo own 66% of Pokémon (They own 33%, and Creatures Inc. own 33%...Nintendo own Creatures Inc), so I doubt the Pokémon games will move to a non-Nintendo console (the rhythm iPod Touch app doesn't count, as as much as it wants to be, Apple's products aren't primarily games consoles). I'd say it's more likely that the non-Pokémon game GameFreak are working on is for the Vita (after all, between 1992 and 1999, they made games for the SEGA Megadrive and PlayStation).
 
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Whether this is a game or not is anyone's guess at this point. I'm personally not getting my hopes up.

At whoever mentioned NeoGAF: I do recall that, around HGSS's pre-release period, there were a couple of 'leaks' made on NeoGAF relating to HGSS. They were proven fake by the game's release. So just because leaks do tend to happen there at times doesn't mean we should take anything posted there as any sort of evidence, since it could easily be fake.
I get your point, but different member and different type of rumor. This is simply implying that whatever game it is its not for Wii U. Which means its a game. So whatever happens there's a damn good chance that we're getting a game this week.

There's a 3DS conference thing.

And there's a "leak" floating around some lesser forums at the moment..
? I know its probably BS, but hell I'd love to see it.


No - Masuda is currently the Director of the main series. I'd say there's pretty much no chance of this being a R/S remake. Why? Because he's appearing in relation to Mewtwo, which may see a game announcement as well. Mewtwo is being used to promote Psycho Drive/Hail Blizzard...the mascot of the Hail Blizzard side is Kyurem. Kyurem being the third in the trio of Reshiram, Zekrom and Kyurem.
The TCG hinting at the game is something I seriously thought of, but I just dunno how or why they would do it. But still, you're using brick theory link 2 and 2 which could lead nowhere.



And its a wii game! A sequel to pokepark no less! Oh fuck it, this is gonna be a shitstorm. And mewtwo's very limited run makes me think its not gonna be important.
 
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The TCG hinting at the game is something I seriously thought of, but I just dunno how or why they would do it. But still, you're using brick theory link 2 and 2 which could lead nowhere.
Sure, I find it odd that, if Kyurem is the mascot of the next game, why they didn't save its set for when the game is released, but think about it:

If The Pokémon Company knew about Psycho Drive/Hail Blizzard while they were making Red Collection - why did they include a Kyurem card? As I said earler in this thread, it's simples - because if every known Unova Pokémon except Kyurem received a card in the first two BW sets, it would give the game away.

Then, why would Masuda be appearing on Pokémon Smash for a mere Mewtwo giveaway? Unless said Mewtwo has some relationship with a currently unannounced Pokémon game (like Pikachu Coloured Pichu). After all, he didn't appear to help advertise...well, pretty much every other Pokémon event that's ever happened. Then, if Mewtwo is appearing in a TCG set, and has some connection to a new game...who might the mascot be? Who's standing next to Mewtwo in the promotional artwork of the set, and is the third in a trio where two of them have already been a game mascot?

I summed it up in quite a long-winded way in this post =3.
 

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I read that post, and you know what, now you make sense. But as i said and edited, Mewtwo's getting a very limited run, for only a month, and the art is no different, just his hand sticking out. If it were important, and it were to be for gray, they wouldn't have it so soon and so casually reported.
 

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PokéPark? Source?

To be honest though, I enjoyed the first PokéPark, so =3.
 

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No - Masuda is currently the Director of the main series. I'd say there's pretty much no chance of this being a R/S remake. Why? Because he's appearing in relation to Mewtwo, which may see a game announcement as well. Mewtwo is being used to promote Psycho Drive/Hail Blizzard...the mascot of the Hail Blizzard side is Kyurem. Kyurem being the third in the trio of Reshiram, Zekrom and Kyurem.

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I wouldn't say theiris zero chance.. it'sjust to early for a 3rd Version and if anyone should announce a R/S remakes it would be him since he designed the region and all
 

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*Sees the CoroCoro scans*
PokéPark 2? Sweet.

I wouldn't say theiris zero chance.. it'sjust to early for a 3rd Version and if anyone should announce a R/S remakes it would be him since he designed the region and all
Gold & Silver - 1999
Crystal - 2000

It's not too early for a third version. However, I say a RS remake is unlikely, because GameFreak will want to finish off the DS and move onto the 3DS (or rather, Nintendo will want them to). Besides, we only had HGSS 2 years ago - there was 6 years between FRLG and HGSS.
 

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*Sees the CoroCoro scans*
PokéPark 2? Sweet.


Gold & Silver - 1999
Crystal - 2000

It's not too early for a third version. However, I say a RS remake is unlikely, because GameFreak will want to finish off the DS and move onto the 3DS (or rather, Nintendo will want them to). Besides, we only had HGSS 2 years ago - there was 6 years between FRLG and HGSS.

And? R/S was released 2/3 years after G/S so they might repeat it. TI's never to early for a remake really I think they decided to wait till G/S 10 year anniversary to release HG/SS and it's bearing R/S' 10 year anniversary it's perfect timing. abd they haven't done that since Crystal it's just way to soon for Grey B/W have barlybeen out a year
 

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And? R/S was released 2/3 years after G/S so they might repeat it. TI's never to early for a remake really I think they decided to wait till G/S 10 year anniversary to release HG/SS and it's bearing R/S' 10 year anniversary it's perfect timing. abd they haven't done that since Crystal it's just way to soon for Grey B/W have barlybeen out a year
Wait, what? So it's not too early for remakes, despite the last one only being released 2 years ago (1 year outside of Japan), yet it's too early for a third version? :S Besides, G/S were released 3 years after R/G, but they didn't repeat that with the remakes.

If GameFreak release remakes at a pace faster than their original games, it won't look good for them from an investor's point of view. Sure, R/S remakes will probably happen at some point, but I highly doubt they will happen in 2011 or 2012.
 

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Wait, what? So it's not too early for remakes, despite the last one only being released 2 years ago (1 year outside of Japan), yet it's too early for a third version? :S Besides, G/S were released 3 years after R/G, but they didn't repeat that with the remakes.

If GameFreak release remakes at a pace faster than their original games, it won't look good for them from an investor's point of view. Sure, R/S remakes will probably happen at some point, but I highly doubt they will happen in 2011 or 2012.

Why? Even if FR/Lg were released in 2006 we would still have to wait 4 years for HG/SS...

and they made FR/LG before Emerald... so yeah they done it before and I think they will do R/S 3DS before Grey to wrap of Gen VI I see R/S 3DS being the last remake for awhile... it's the only game not done in 3D
 

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Why? Even if FR/Lg were released in 2006 we would still have to wait 4 years for HG/SS...

and they made FR/LG before Emerald... so yeah they done it before and I think they will do R/S 3DS before Grey to wrap of Gen VI I see R/S 3DS being the last remake for awhile... it's the only game not done in 3D
Exactly, even if they had released FRLG on the 10th anniversary of RG, we still would have had to wait 3 years for HGSS. However, there are only 2 years between GS and RS' releases - the difference 2 years and 3 years is that the extra year allows them to release another game to help spread out the remakes.

GameFreak will want to end Generation V on the Nintendo DS, because one of the problems they had when developing BW was having it on the same console as Generation IV (they stated this in numerous interviews), so it's logical that they would want to avoid that in the future. So they'll probably release Grey for the DS next year, then release Generation VI in 2013 for the 3DS (which will make Gen V as long as Gen II); then have RS3DS as a part of Gen VI, which would be on the 3DS.

Sure, they made FRLG before Emerald, but FRLG were the first remakes, there was no need to stretch out time between it and a non-existent previous remake. If all a company does is remake their old games, investors will be under the impression that they are out of ideas, and it will be bad for the company.
 

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Exactly, even if they had released FRLG on the 10th anniversary of RG, we still would have had to wait 3/4 years for HGSS. However, there are only 2 years between GS and RS' releases - that extra year allows GameFreak to release a different game to help space out the remakes.

GameFreak will want to end Generation V on the Nintendo DS, because one of the problems they had when developing BW was having it on the same console as Generation IV (they stated this in numerous interviews), so it's logical that they would want to avoid that in the future. So they'll probably release Grey for the DS next year, then release Generation VI in 2013 for the 3DS (which will make Gen V as long as Gen II); then have RS3DS as a part of Gen VI, which would be on the 3DS.

They haven't done a Gen II for the last two Gen's... It was the only Gen to have only 3 games period I highly doubt they'll do that.. ad it makes ABSLOLTLY no sense to keep it on the DS... it's a dead system they aren't going to to put a game on a dead system Nintendo will have them put it on the 3DS to help the systems sales...

It's perfect timing for a R/S remake your argument of it being to soon makes absolutly no sense... was 2002 to soon for R/S?
 

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They haven't done a Gen II for the last two Gen's... It was the only Gen to have only 3 games period I highly doubt they'll do that.. ad it makes ABSLOLTLY no sense to keep it on the DS... it's a dead system they aren't going to to put a game on a dead system Nintendo will have them put it on the 3DS to help the systems sales...

It's perfect timing for a R/S remake your argument of it being to soon makes absolutly no sense... was 2002 to soon for R/S?
You're argument of "Was 2002 too soon for R/S" is what isn't making sense...it wasn't too soon for Ruby/Sapphire, because that was a new game not a remake. In Japan, Generation I lasted 3 years, and Generation II lasted 2 years. You can't discount half of the franchise's history just because Generation III and IV were longer (In fact, if not for the remakes, they would have been the same length).

Sure, Nintendo are slowly withdrawing the DS in favour of their pretty new console, but games are still being made and released for the DS, and they probably will for at least another year or two. Hell, Nintendo are releasing a pink DSi XL this Christmas. Not a pink 3DS, a pink DSi XL. The DS brand is still strong and will continue to do so for at least another year; which makes releasing Grey early next year (with an announcement soon) pretty likely, so GF can release it before Nintendo give up on the DS.
 
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Nintendo own 66% of Pokémon (They own 33%, and Creatures Inc. own 33%...Nintendo own Creatures Inc), so I doubt the Pokémon games will move to a non-Nintendo console (the rhythm iPod Touch app doesn't count, as as much as it wants to be, Apple's products aren't primarily games consoles). I'd say it's more likely that the non-Pokémon game GameFreak are working on is for the Vita (after all, between 1992 and 1999, they made games for the SEGA Megadrive and PlayStation).

Which reminds me, how come no one has mentioned the news about the Pokemon Company forcing people to remove the apps from their iPod Touch? It drove one of my friends here to file a lawsuit against them without realizing that the apps may not be approved by the company.
 

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You're argument of "Was 2002 too soon for R/S" is what isn't making sense...it wasn't too soon for Ruby/Sapphire, because that was a new game not a remake. In Japan, Generation I lasted 3 years, and Generation II lasted 2 years. You can't discount half of the franchise's history just because Generation III and IV were longer (In fact, if not for the remakes, they would have been the same length).

Sure, Nintendo are slowly withdrawing the DS in favour of their pretty new console, but games are still being made and released for the DS, and they probably will for at least another year or two.

Yeah shovelware... a major game like Pokemon will not be released on a dying system... the only reason B/W were on the DS was because the 3DS wasn't out yet. now that it's out it doesn't make sense to continue on a dying system... plus they are already making games for the 3DS so like Pokemon Dash before it they are probibly going to move it to a different system... they done it before with gen II and the GBC...

Just release R/S 3DS next year then Grey then Gen VI which can retern to Gen II's format... it makes no sense to ignore the games 10 year anniversry that is a big deal...
 

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CoroCoro scans are showing the Mewtwo event, and a Pokepark sequel is coming out this winter in Japan.

I honestly hope that the Masuda announcement isn't about the Pokepark sequel, although I don't see why it would. Like what was pointed out several times, I don't think Masuda would be making a huge deal about a side-game of that type since he only seems to primarily work on the main series, and plays a small part in only a select few side-games.
 

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CoroCoro scans are showing the Mewtwo event, and a Pokepark sequel is coming out this fall in Japan.

I honestly hope that the Masuda announcement isn't about the Pokepark sequel, although I don't see why it would. Like what was pointed out several times, I don't think Masuda would be making a huge deal about a side-game of that type since he only seems to primarily work on the main series, and plays a small part in only a select few side-games.

DoesMewtwo get ne2w moves or unlock anyhing or is it a huge waste of time?
 
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