Voice the Rse=rgby/frlg timeline is only fan speculation. Nothing confirms they happen simultaneously.
My point was that wombateiro's claim that RSE will be remade next is because they fit into the timeline of B2W2. However, if that is the case, that would also mean all other remakes occured due to being part of the same timeline, including FRLG occuring at the same time as RSE, which contradicts his RSE occuring with B2W2 and Janine's appearance as a Gym Leader and Red and Lance being Champions. I was actually trying to argue that using timeline as a reason can't be done.
I actually don't believe a Gen has to have occured in the same timeline to be remade. We already have alternate universes (N and Reshiram/Zekrom, Team Magma and Team Aqua being evil) so it really shouldn't mean there is an absolute set of events that occurs.
"Pointless" features are needed to make games more unique. There's many features in every game which could be deleted, but why? For example, they made sprite animations for all trainers in B2/W2. It's pointless, but who cares? It's standard of gaming development to keep removing and bringing back features to keep people interested in games.
Exactly, if every game had following in it, it wouldn't be unique. The difference with these sprite animations is that they are far more advanced, unlike the limited animation we've seen before. Sort of like how B/W introduced the fully animated Pokemon, B2W2 fully animated (well, until they send out a Pokemon) trainers.
But the point again is that just because following and Gym Leader rematches specifically aren't there, doesn't mean this Generation has another installment coming just to include those features again.
They brought back limited rematches with Gym Leaders in B2/W2, kinda like in Platinum. I expect them to bring back unlimited rematches in R/S remakes, just like in HG/SS. Hidden Hollows in B2/W2 are technically brought back Secret Bases without customizations. R/S remakes should have Secret Bases brought back with customizations.
Again, I don't see the importance of facing the Gym Leaders again with all the extra characters we can battle now. In HG/SS, there were no special NPC's other than Red and your Rival on certain days to face again. B/W changed this.
"Why remakes on 3DS would be incompatible with gen 5? If they don't introduce any new Pokemon, attacks, etc, there should be no problem. Dream Radar is for 3DS and has no compatibility problems with B2/W2.
I meant FULL compatibility, like how HG/SS was fully compatible with D/P/Pt. No games designed for different systems have been fully compatible before. And the Dream Radar's compatibility isn't what I was talking about, I meant only the main series games. I doubt a DS designed game would fully work with one designed for the 3DS. We could probably use PokeTransfer like from Gen 3 to Gen 4 and Gen 4 to Gen 5, but battles and such would probably be out.
"Talking about patterns... you should notice that next gen Pokemon are main stars only after all movie Pokemon from current gen already had their movies, meaning no gen 6 star in Genesect movie. I thought Genesect won't be getting it's own movie because of most likely being revealed in this year, but now it looks like Genesect movie will be associated with with R/S remakes in 2013, much like Arceus movie with HG/SS. The reason why they started to revealing Genesect now is most likely it's presence in Pokedex 3D Pro.
Genesect will probably be announced like Victini - being already known year before and confirmed later to be main star.
Gen 5 has broken a lot of trends, but every February except for the Victini movie has been "reveal the star" month, but only Victini and Zekrom were confirmed at first. February revealed Reshiram would also be in the movie, and that 2 movies would happen, not just 1. Victini was not the "star" of the movie, both Reshiram and Zekrom were equally important to those movies, like Mew and Mewtwo shared the spotlight. So that was very different from any other February announcement, but it was still something new and something we didn't know about from the December announcement.
Also, B/W got the traditional September release in Japan with a US release in March 2011, 5 months later which is the standard I believe. But B2/W2 were released in June, 3 months earlier than usual with the US October release being about 3.5 months between the Japanese release. And again, look at how many Pokemon and formes were revealed this February. Every event Legendary has had its own movie, except Meloetta. They stuck it in the series. Why do that if not to save time? Why not make a movie with it? Why reveal so many Pokemon and formes so soon if Gen 5 is going to continue into 2014? Even Arceus was saved to be revealed the same year HG/SS were released, possibly because of the Arceus event in those games.
Regigigas was shown in the preview for the Platinum movie, but had a small role. Lugia and Ho-oh were shown in the preview for the Zoroark movie, but didn't even appear in it. For Genesect (a Pokemon that still hasn't officially been revealed yet) to appear a whole year before its movie should be a red flag. With it being a "new" Pokemon, I doubt it won't be in the movie. So, since we know about Genesect already, what new could there be in February to announce other than a Gen 6 Pokemon? All movies that served as part of the remake eras revealed old Pokemon like Celebi and the Johto trio first in December, then a new or event Pokemon in February. That hasn't changed.