Your post is so damn redundant. First of all, they already HAVE phased out the original/DS lite. The DS lite, I don't even think, is in production anymore. Do you know why it dropped to, like, $100? It's because Nintendo wants to get them gone. They've already phased out the GBA slot. Deal with it.
Then you say "Oh, you can just play R/S/E on your old DS." Tell me, when was the last time you went into Walmart and seen those games on sale? Those games. Are. Dead. 90% of them have their batteries already gone in them. Sure, you can still buy them on ebay and just get a replacement battery, but seriously? What Pokemon fan between the age of 5-17 is going to be able to pull that off?
It's like saying, "What's the point of HeartGold and SoulSilver?? You all played Pokemon before, surely you all still have your old Gameboys. Just play them on that!!" "Ugh, why do you want Red and Blue remade?? Just play it on your old gameboy!!1", and its the same for that stupid argument "X and X Pokemon is already available in X game. WHY do we need a remake??". It's to PLAY the GAME again, whatever Pokemon is available is irrelevant. It's to allow people, who never had the chance to play the original, play it. It's for people who already played the game, who are interested in buying a remake, to be able to play it once again with refined graphics. It's to revive a relevant game from the past and bring it back to the present. It's every other justification for a remake.
You, and everyone else who is still in denial, is singing the exact same tune the same group of people that we're in denial about the G/S/C remakes. And guess what? We got them. It had nothing to do with being able to capture Entei/Suicune/Raikou/etc/etc in Colosseum/Fire Red/Leaf Green/etc.
They are remaking R/S/E. It's inevitable. Everyone knows it's going to happen.
I doubt it. First of all, there's still no single event Pokemon up to now that was distributed as a tribute regarding a TCG thing, and I doubt that will happen since Game Freak only have "very little" involvement to the TCG (only on the TCG using Ken Sugimori's artwork on some of their cards), so just like Silktree said, they might be promoting something that we don't know yet, such as a new main Pokemon game, etc.
Yeah, I don't know how he missed that, lol.
I enjoyed it as well, even though I finished it in 6 hours, I'm still trying to get jirachi as my buddy (yeah thunder bolt in chase take that!) but wait? metagross game?
Wait...I think it was like, Dugtrio's; or a Pokémon in that same area. But you can play as Metagross.
