First off, I really, REALLY wish people would look up the definition of "patch" vs "DLC" because the amount people confuse these two with each other is staggering. They're not the same thing at all. New content is DLC, fixing programming errors is a patch.
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Um, well…that's because DLC
is a patch, just a
major, albeit normally
optional, one: both DLC and what you call 'patches' add new content to an already-existing game; it's just that the latter, in your view, must be restricted to delivering minor bug fixes. (I suppose what I've been wondering, then, is whether the director's cut might be delivered as a '2.0' patch to
X and
Y in the form of required DLC, assuming that said DLC would be 'required' in the sense that GameFreak might prevent players of versions of
X and
Y older than 2.0 from playing online.)
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ANYWAY, It's going to definitely be a third version instead of two sequels for the simple fact of:
Xerneas
Yveltal
Zygarde
But also because how many people were jumped on when they saw clues of the Ruby Sapphire remake and belittled and name called and all that, and then VOILA, ORAS.
Also, Kyurem merges with Reshiram or Zekrom, so isn't it obvious that there had to be two games? Zygarde doesn't merge with either Xerneas or Yveltal, in fact it negates them, so there won't be any merging so there would be no need for two separate games. …
For the record,
I was in
favor of GameFreak remaking
Ruby and
Sapphire for
several reasons, not the least of which is due to the fact that my elder brother sold the copy of
Sapphire that he used to let me borrow until I got
FireRed (he had bought both
Ruby and
Sapphire) to my younger sister. As for your opinion that our next visit to the Kalos region as Trainers will
definitely be mediated by
one, and
only one, game,
that may not necessarily be true. I've heard (forgive me for forgetting my sources) some fans speculate that Zygarde might get
not one, but
two new forms (maybe Mega Evolutions?) in the next Kalos game or games; one of these forms would exist to counter Xerneas, while the other one would be necessary to counter Yveltal. What's more,
evidence for the future accessibility of these new forms or Mega Evolutions may already
exist — in, that is, the form of 'Land's Wrath,' Zygarde's signature move. It has been surmised that this move may be replaced by either the move 'Thousand Arrows' or the move 'Thousand Waves' when Zygarde either switches forms or Mega Evolves, depending either on which main Generation VI legendary Zygarde is facing or on which Mega Stone is used on him. Either way, though, there you have it: I've now got a reason to postulate that GameFreak might release either a sequel to or an update for each currently-existing main-series Generation VI game. Personally, I prefer the idea that GameFreak might update
X and
Y with some required DLC because I want it to fix all of those games' plot holes with the directors' cuts.
…And it's not going to take 2 - 3 years for the next game to come out, they don't work on 1 game series and then move onto the next, they are both working on them concurrently, (IE, the mega latios and latias in the game data of X and Y, as well as the length of time from when B2W2 came out to when X and Y came out) but also, more importantly, all the data already exists. They are not building the game from the ground up, they simply need to alter, change, or improve what is already there. Look how much of the background graphics are reused in ORAS from X and Y, they going to do the same thing with the remake to save time and money and simply add stuff.
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When I said that GameFreak probably started working on whatever they're going to release to wrap up the Kalos region's story a while back, I intended to imply neither that the company couldn't work on more than one game or set of games at a time nor that my guess about its development timelines might be correct. I suppose, however, that I may have assumed that GameFreak might have more work to do on polishing pre-existing resources for use in the next Kalos games than you think they will.
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My hope is that they make Pokemon Z on the Wii U FINALLY. I mean, with internet, why does the game NEED to be on a handheld anymore? and seriously, how many of us are using the internet connectivity while we're out vs being at home?
I suppose that the main series games continuing to be on handhelds is partly due to tradition; the main series always been on handhelds since day one. I guess that Game Freak and Nintendo don't want to break that tradition yet.
It's fine by me if Z and other future main series games are on the handhelds. Though I'm probably biased because I have a 3DS and not a WiiU. …
Have you ever considered the fact that the more personal nature of portable consoles might be one reason why GameFreak has never released a main-series
Pokémon game for one of Nintendo's home consoles? I mean, think about it: as things currently stand, only one save file is available to players per cartridge, and this design choice was probably made not only because, at least in the early days of portable consoles, one save file was likely all that games set in rich worlds could afford to offer users. This condition may even still exist intact on through to the present day since the amount of data needed to represent the regions, monsters, moves, items, etc., used in
Pokémon games keeps growing as developers take advantage of newer portable consoles' ever-greater capabilities. As much as I'd like to see
Pokémon games have multiple files like the games from Nintendo's other core franchises usually do, trading would be much more complicated and less spontaneous and effortless if users had to juggle multiple player profiles per system in the process and were limited to only swapping 'mon online instead of being able to do so any time their systems are in range of each other.
…Though I have to say that another console Pokemon game in the vein of Colosseum or Battle Revolution would be nice, it's been a while since we've had one of those. …
I have to agree with you here that, although
Pokémon Colosseum had a relatively short storyline for a
Pokémon game, lengthy in-game battle animations, and an existence that was mostly for the benefit of Generation III's handheld games' PokéDexes; it was a
beautiful example of what
Pokémon could be like on home consoles if the franchise's managers at the Pokémon Company International ever gave serious attention to making a
Pokémon game for one of Nintendo's home consoles. Maybe GameFreak could work with Genius Sonority on a home console
Pokémon game that could be kind of like a combination of
Pokémon Colosseum,
Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, and
Pokémon Battle Revolution and
Pokémon Box: Ruby and Sapphire? I would hope that such a title would give players of some future generation of portable
Pokémon games both a large region like the Orre one to explore an enlarged 'Battle Frontier'-like region along the lines of
Pokémon Battle Revolution's '
Pokétopia.' The ability to play such a game using either just the home console's controller or their portable systems would be much appreciated, especially if hooking your portable up to your home console unlocked additional content on both ends while also allowing Trainers to either play their portable game on their TVs in anticipation of the fact that
some portable consoles and mobile devices can
already drive TVs
all by themselves or bringing their big-screen adventure along with them as they travel. I also imagine that a console
Pokémon title could act as a portal to the Pokémon Bank.
…I kinda wish we had a little more to go off of in terms of the next Kalos game....
Me, too, my friend; me, too.