Oh my goodness, you just cannot believe how much I've been thinking about Generation VI and how much excitement I've had about it. I would definitely say that Generation VI games probably might be launched during this year. But you think about it, there's several things you've gotta think about. I've been doing alot of thinking to fit the puzzle together to what I speculate what might be in the announcement. Here's the things you've gotta think about:
- The N saga of the Best Wishes series... just how long will it last? By the looks of it... probably will last 'till June or July 2013 in Japan
- Game Freak has already stated that Pokémon Black and White will be more faster paced than previous games.
- Very little in the way of companies are making Nintendo DS games now, even when I check ROM sites... there's only just a few official games apart from ROM hacks and patches. This means that the Nintendo DS has almost come to a close, most people own a 3DS now... even though it's backwards compatible with DS and DSiWare games.
- Game Freak has already said that they're "Evolving the world of Pokémon in 2013".
- Alot of people really thought that the Black and White sequels was Pokémon Gray when they really did say that they were Black and White sequels... not better games, but it just shows we really wern't paying much attention, 'cause we were too used to the same pattern that the games are developed. Game Freak has already said that there's no pattern at all when they're developing games.
- The Pokémon Company got to be able to test the Nintendo 3DS in it's very early prototype stage, this could've been handed down to Game Freak... but we can't be sure if they did or not.
- Junichi Masuda did indeed announce about a huge "surprising" announcement a while back, but turned out to be a Mewtwo Wi-Fi event.
- A Generation V game cannot be made for the 3DS when already on the Nintendo DS, because the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and Nintendo Network servers are different. Sure, they use Wi-Fi... but I'm talking about the servers they use. Nintendo Network is a totally different server and games using Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection server would be incompatible with a Nintendo Network server. 3DS games can only connect to a Nintendo Network server.
- The Pokémon Company nowadays intends to surprise their fans, so that it attracts more fans and fans would buy their games and gain so much revenue.
- Pokémon Gold, Silver and Crystal of Generation II are the games that only lasted for 3 years before Generation III was made. The first Generation also was short, if you only count Red, Blue and Yellow... it would've been 2 years, but if you only count Red, Green, Blue and Special Pikachu Edition of Japan... it would've been 3 years.
- The new Genesect movie has announced Genesect's Flying Forme, which has not been programmed in Black Version 2 and White Version 2.
Now think about all those things... and just think what you could piece together into this puzzle.
Here's some speculation:
Hm... let's see... first, the announcement probably won't be as too big as what you'd think it would be. It probably won't be another Wi-Fi event, but probably the revealing of a silhouette of a brand new Pokémon that probably would be set to appear in the new Pokémon games that will come out this year, and by new Pokémon games... I don't mean the spin-off ones or anything. I mean the actual Generation VI that would be on the Nintendo 3DS. While showing the silhouette, they probably will announce a C-Gear skin for the Pokémon that is revealed afterwards.
What do I think the silhouette will be? It probably will be the new Eeveelution that is set to appear in the new Eevee mini-movie. I remember the time when people were speculating the Sky Forme for Shaymin, then eventually it's Sky Forme was revealed. How did people know that it was called the Sky Forme before it was even shown?
Now... looking at the poster for that mini-movie of Eevee. By the looks of that last Katakana character... it seems that Eevee might actually have some "star power". So it might be called Starie, then localized as "Stareon".
For Generation VI, we're really talking about the 3DS now. Even though Game Freak
did say that they'd stick to sprites as long as they can, they can't anymore now that the 3DS is out. It would be really hard to give the 3D depth if the characters were still sprites, so they would have to be 3D or it would ruin the concept... Game Freak has no choice. All the Pokémon in the game would have to be 3D models, 'cause they had some 3D models in the scenes in HeartGold, SoulSilver, Black, White, Black 2 and White 2. But this time... I'm sure they'd make everything 3D.
Now that there's a 3DS... it has Augmented Reality on it, it's time to see what it can do in Generation VI, along with it's StreetPass and SpotPass functions.
Generation VI could actually be releasing 3 main games at the same time instead of 2.
We could be seeing new types in Generation VI, I would really love to see new types in the game. They really should bring in a "Light" type, that would fit very well for a new Eeveelution, as well as finally making it possible to give Ghost/Dark type Pokémon a weakness at long last without requiring the use of Lock-on or Odor Sleuth.
But also... I was thinking, what if the games were also a partial R/S/E remake? It probably won't happen, but it would be nice if that happened. But what if you could go to Hoenn 11 years after the events that occurred in R/S/E?
But of course, it would be silly of Game Freak to not release Generation VI this year, 'cause development has almost ended for all DS games, and the new Genesect movie is bound to announce new Pokémon that would appear in the movie a bit later.
Well guys, the excitement is around the corner, currently in Japan it would be 3:05 PM (of the time I posted this post).