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Old May 7th, 2014 (1:48 PM).
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I don't think it is too soon tbh since this will motivate me to play my 3ds more.
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I really hope they don't rush development, pokemon projects should be handled delicately imo, especially something like this that fans are invested in emotionally.
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I really hope they don't rush development, pokemon projects should be handled delicately imo, especially something like this that fans are invested in emotionally.
Don't mean to go too off-topic with this but I guess it kinda resonates with today's announcement—I recently ran into the article that your signature mentions and I couldn't help but smile at it.

"In time, the pocket monsters likely will be gone and forgotten like Power Rangers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But right now, they're thriving with a new GameBoy cartridge coming out this month." CNN, October 14th 1999

Here's the original article in case anyone's curious. It's pretty cool to be able to look back at stories like these every once in a while. :)
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No I don't think it's too soon.

People said X & Y came too soon but they were still great games. Not to mention Gamefreak is a big company, they can work on multiple projects at once.

I think it's a little presumptuous to assume because it's coming out a year after X & Y that it'll end up feeling rushed and of poor quality.
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No I don't think it's too soon.

People said X & Y came too soon but they were still great games. Not to mention Gamefreak is a big company, they can work on multiple projects at once.

I think it's a little presumptuous to assume because it's coming out a year after X & Y that it'll end up feeling rushed and of poor quality.
The thing that people fail to realise is the fact that we've mostly been getting a new game every year for quite a long while now.
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XY are over 6 months and in video game world that is very old.
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IMHO, X & Y were so lacking in terms of content, it wouldn't be too soon if the games were released tomorrow.
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It's not too soon.... Hoenn fans waited for that remake since HG/SS.. (I'm glad it's for the 3DS and not the DS! )

If it doesn't take place in Kalos then it has nothing to do with the X&Y games.. X&Y seguel (or preguel) is coming in 2015 then... So it's cool!
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It's too short. It should have been at least a year and a half. Pokemon may become like COD. Copy and paste with sins skin changes. Hopefully they won't do this for the next 10 or so years. I have high hopes!
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It's too short. It should have been at least a year and a half. Pokemon may become like COD. Copy and paste with sins skin changes. Hopefully they won't do this for the next 10 or so years. I have high hopes!
You do realise its a longer gap than between B/W2 and X/Y, right? That was almost exactly a year (There was a one, two week gap if I remember right).

Also, before you claim there was a lack of content in X/Y due to that short time period, remember that a lot of X/Y's development was spent on making 700+ fully 3D models, which is partly why other parts of the game are quite lacking. Now that they're all made (besides for a few new megas we'll probably get), there should be way more time to add some more content to this game).
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It's too short. It should have been at least a year and a half. Pokemon may become like COD. Copy and paste with sins skin changes. Hopefully they won't do this for the next 10 or so years. I have high hopes!
Once again, Pokémon has always been like this. Yearly releases are absolutely not a foreign concept when it comes to Pokémon. We've been getting a new entry in the series every year for a very long time now.
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I was expecting a Hoenn remake eventually but didn't think it would be the next games. I don't think this game would be rushed because if we look at FRLG and HGSS, they were only upgrades from the original adding even more than what they first had. I'm sure they will keep at least every normal Hoenn feature but possibly more. I'm so excited right now!
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Once again, Pokémon has always been like this. Yearly releases are absolutely not a foreign concept when it comes to Pokémon. We've been getting a new entry in the series every year for a very long time now.
I remember Crystal coming out like 8 or 9 months after the USA got Gen 2
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Typically, these games are in production for years, and have been said to be as such for previous releases by Game Freak (e.g. with HGSS, 3 years or so - Platinum was already released during that time). So I wouldn't worry about that too much. And as someone mentioned, this may well be done by the 'B team', the group behind HGSS and B2W2. That'd be good.

Not that it's an unusual pattern either. The first pair of games have always had less stuff than those following it within the same generation. Emerald to RS, Platinum to DP, etc. And here, if they are remakes then Emerald will be used as the base (like how Crystal stuff was in HGSS), and that was pretty good with side content (contests, battle frontier, secret bases...)

In terms of separation - look at the time line of releases. We generally have at most a 2 year gap between games, and 1 year is pretty common as well. Any financial troubles supposedly had by Nintendo isn't anywhere near bad enough for them to try and rush out games before they want to either, imo. Granted, I am a bit surprised we're getting a game this year, but it's only towards the end of the year, and 13 months since X&Y (and notably that was a worldwide release too) is a significant amount of time.

Besides, the game that'll follow this, whatever it is (e.g. 'Z')? Already being developed, I bet.
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I am torn as ruby, sapphire and emerald were my favorite games and story but I also LOVED the story in X and Y and was really looking forward to a Z to switch Zygarde up a bit and feel the Kalos region expand a little. However they may still do a sequel to the X and Y games but I would have liked the Z first, then the remakes! It might be a totally new experience with different towns in ruby and sapphire and thats what I am hoping for but I doubt it, I feel it will be just added features, better graphics, better customizations, base customizations, etc. so I am happy to see a ruby and sapphire coming for 3DS but would have preferred a follow up to X and Y and waited another year or two for the remakes. Not complaining though as like I said, I am SUPER excited to pick both of these up as well!
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I must say that I am a tad bit worried that it could be being rushed, but now as I think about it I can't picture gamefreak risking the problems of rushing a game like this. Also like many others have said above, there have been games released around a year after anothers release and it has been fine. I am just glad that this is finally coming :)
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Despite the positive reactions of many fans, and the original versions being over ten years old, do you think that AlphaSapphire and OmegaRuby are being released too early? There will only be a gap of 13 months between the release of XY and ASΩR, rather than the common two year gap. Is that enough time to produce a crisp and finished product? Or do you think the developers are being rushed? How do you think the gap between the last few major releases have affected those games?
Wow, you're the first person I've seen to use the "ASΩR" abbreviation. XD If Game Freak has streamlined the process of making new games without sacrificing quality, then I don't see a problem with more expedient releases of core series Pokemon games. I think a Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire remake has been long overdue, especially since the games are more than 10 years old and didn't get an anniversary-coinciding release (which doesn't matter too much; as long as the games exist, I don't really mind the release date), with Hoenn being the only region that still hasn't been rendered in 3D yet as of May 2014. Additionally, people will/may stop pining for "HOENN REMAKES" and go on to enjoy the other stuff that Pokemon has to offer as we wait. XD

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You'll have to keep in mind, they were working on both B/W and HG/SS at the same time, and people are still going on about how great the remakes were. For all we know, they could've been working on ORAS for years now. And since it's already closing in on 11 years since the originals were released, I honestly think it's about time. Not to mention that people have been begging for this ever since the release of HG/SS, so I definitely don't think it's too soon :p
I'm not sure what to think of 2 teams working on concurrent Pokemon games... Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver, despite being remakes, were so awesome (and I haven't even played them yet) while Pokemon Black and White were so underwhelming (I'm speaking more in terms of added/removed features, here; derived from what I've read about both pairs of games). It seems like there was slight disconnect (like in terms of the touch-screen usage). I'm hoping that OR/AS prove to be stellar, though; hopefully, the 2 teams (?) coordinated and a lot of time went into proper development and not removing stuff unnecessarily.

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Some of you are mentioning a lack of post game from XY. Do you think ASΩR will have the same fate? Or do you think the development of ASΩR are the reason why XY didn't have a great post game?
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When did Pokémon games ever have a decent post-game? The Battle Frontier only counts as a semi-half-assed attempt, IMO.
I don't think XY post-game should be criticized too harshly (I made a lengthy post on this a while back XD), but it could've been improved; OR/AS development may have been something that detracted from dedicated post-game content in XY. Regarding OR/AS themselves, the presence of Pokemon Contests already means that OR/AS provide more post-game content than XY, and I doubt that Pokemon-amie will be removed due to all the work on it. OR/AS at the bare minimum needs to have a Battle Frontier for Hoenn like HG/SS did for Johto (there's no reason not to re-use Emerald's Battle Frontier resources, as this is the opportunity where such an action would make the most sense and wouldn't hurt) to satisfy "battling post-game" criteria, in my opinion. But given how people clamored for XY post-game, I'm anticipating that Game Freak will rectify this issue somehow with a little more content (not like much is needed; OR/AS will likely provide battling and Contest post-game).

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Supposedly the B Team made HGSS and B2W2. Hopefully ORAS is the B2W2 of BW to XY in terms of quality.
This. (And that's interesting, because I think that B2W2 rectified a lot of flaws that BW themselves had).

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Don't mean to go too off-topic with this but I guess it kinda resonates with today's announcement—I recently ran into the article that your signature mentions and I couldn't help but smile at it.

"In time, the pocket monsters likely will be gone and forgotten like Power Rangers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But right now, they're thriving with a new GameBoy cartridge coming out this month." CNN, October 14th 1999

Here's the original article in case anyone's curious. It's pretty cool to be able to look back at stories like these every once in a while. :)
{XD} Even funnier is that all 3 of those franchises are still thriving in some way, shape, or form...all of them have a TV show running at the moment and 2 of the 3 (TMNT and Pokemon) have movies on the way for this year. XD

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You do realise its a longer gap than between B/W2 and X/Y, right? That was almost exactly a year (There was a one, two week gap if I remember right).

Also, before you claim there was a lack of content in X/Y due to that short time period, remember that a lot of X/Y's development was spent on making 700+ fully 3D models, which is partly why other parts of the game are quite lacking. Now that they're all made (besides for a few new megas we'll probably get), there should be way more time to add some more content to this game).
Although it would've been nice if XY had "700+ models" and adequate post-game (Game Freak shouldn't be in any position to rush things), I can understand why XY was lacking in some areas (and not to mention that 700+ had battle animations and Pokemon-amie animations, in addition to the various move effects).. OR/AS seem on track to fix the "content" problem for Generation 6, though..

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Personally, OR/AS had great timing (although really, the announcement could have been held off until E3 2014, where it could have been amazing) as my Emerald internal battery (for tracking clock-based events) just died recently, so revisiting an enhanced Hoenn with a working temporal function/battery mechanic will be nice (whenever that comes around XD).
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There's a lack of post-game in X and Y, which is why I think a lot of people choose restart and replay it for once. At least I heard a lot of people say that they restarted their files to play it again at some point. There also doesn't seem to be a lot of DLC releasing for them either, which is what I thought would happen originally. Maybe they chose not to because they knew the remakes were re-launching, and wanted to give X and Y time to cool down.

Really, November is still a chunk of months away, and with no new X and Y content likely to come out before then, I think that most of us will be ready for a new game to play by then. xD
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The fact that XY brought back fans who haven't played the games since the early 2000's, announcing Hoenn remakes seem too soon, because it was the exact same gen where they older fans stopped playing Pokemon, being the worst-selling gen in the series, so I fear the remakes will scare away those fans who just came back.
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The fact that XY brought back fans who haven't played the games since the early 2000's, announcing Hoenn remakes seem too soon, because it was the exact same gen where they older fans stopped playing Pokemon, being the worst-selling gen in the series, so I fear the remakes will scare away those fans who just came back.
Where are you getting these numbers from? Ruby/Sapphire were the most successful GBA games ever, sold a little more than Gold/Silver and I'm under the impression that they also sold more than D/P as well.
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I'm very happy and excited, but I would have been if they revealed it next year, as well. It's odd they released it this early; we had to wait a year between the reveal and when we could buy it.

They could have done so much more with X & Y to satiate their fans. Are they just gonna give up on it? I mean, what about the event legends!? And the [email protected]!? Will we ever get those? Will they be a part of OR and AS?

I'm sure it will look good, though. It has probably been in production since before October 2013. Who knows?

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In a way yes, but I think Nintendo needs this. It might give them the extra financial push they needed, and I think everyone's more then ready for these games. For myself, XY went by, finished them in free time in under a month(didn't even bring it to work or transit) and have not done a thing with them all of 2014 except once when Pokebank was supposed to be working, and wasn't. The original RS/E games are very hard to obtain, due to bootlegs flooding the market like a plauge, the cost of real copies, and the batteries dieing. This week the battery on my Emerald finally went. (this makes me feel old ;w; lol jk)
Nintendo is discontinuing the wifi for 4th/5th gen and real Pokemon from Hoenn will be harder then ever to get, and the actual original event Jirachi's and Deoxys(or Lati's but you can get them in game) will be very, very scarce after this. I'm glad they are doing this, I think Kalos and Hoenn go well together. :) They both have that "fresh, enjoyable" style about them. But maybe that's just me X3
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It might only seem like too soon since we're getting information and reveals in May but the game itself isn't set to come out until November, meaning there's still half a year to wait. I think 13 months is perfectly reasonable!
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Where are you getting these numbers from? Ruby/Sapphire were the most successful GBA games ever, sold a little more than Gold/Silver and I'm under the impression that they also sold more than D/P as well.
Here's the sales chart from VGChartz:



Keep in mind that this is the latest chart I could find, so B2/W2 and XY aren't listed.
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Keep in mind that this is the latest chart I could find, so B2/W2 and XY aren't listed.
Would hardly call them the worst-selling games… :p
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