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It should be possible for local wireless communication; that's how FRLG and Emerald (and the GameCube games) could send a patch to Ruby and Sapphire to fix the berry glitch. For online communication, XY players would simply be required to download the patch to use the online features.Regarding patches, would it be possible for an unupdated XY game to download the patch from a copy of ORAS if they tried to connect? That seems like the easiest way to handle it, if it's possible.
Probably because Latiasite and Latiosite are event-exclusive items that will be distributed to XY even prior to ORAS' release, or at least that was the original intention. Failing that, the extra Mega Evolutions weren't deliberately excluded from XY so much as they simply didn't have complete designs by XY's release, with Mega Latias and Latios being an exception.As for getting new forms at all, I was skeptical about it happening due to the unreleased Lati@s megas in XY- if they could patch everything in afterwards, why bother including those two to begin with?-
Game Freak don't necessarily see ORAS as an opportunity to add Generation III Mega Evolutions so much as Mega Evolutions in general. Beyond the mascots and starters, I don't think that they should capitalize on Generation III in particular.On the other hand, there's a large amount of gen 3 Megas already, and I'm not sure GF would add more- or, conversely, if they were planning on adding more Megas in the Hoenn remakes, they would have held back some of the G3 megas and just introduced them in ORAS rather than XY.