DP is the best-seller of the Pokemon franchise. There is life in this. Tell me why would Nintendo would drop that kind of cash just because it would give them a headache or two coming up with new Pokemon (and, y'know, there are still plenty of untapped sources for Pokemon ideas. Platypus-mon!).
I realize that, but introducing the final Pokemon, the God Arceus, means that any Pokemon coming after it won't come close to it, and the point of every gen, for me, is to see even stronger Pokemon arise.
I don't understand how introducing Arceus made it impossible to come up with new legendaries. There's always the possibility of such things as improvements on the idea of manmade legendaries, an opposing deity to Arceus (kind of like Satan, though Nintendo's probably going to make sure to minimize comparisons to the Devil if it does use that idea), etc. I've even toyed with the possible idea of a Fighting type legendary, which, if memory serves, is along with Poison in being the only type not having shown up on a legendary.
It is possible to make new legendaries, but that just proves Nintendo's pulling things out of their ___. An opposing God, sort of like an anti-Arceus could be introduced, but then it would get a little too cheesy. I'd rather keep one Pokemon God. Fighting type legendary doesn't seem to appealing to me :o
I don't think that an actual shortage of Pokemon ideas would stop Nintendo from trying to milk Pokemon for all it's worth. =P
It won't, but it's gonna totally destroy Pokemon as we know it, DP was a great game to end the series. A fifth generation would be ridiculous.
I'm kinda against the idea of firmly choosing a path between contests and gym battles. Gyms are the big focus in the Pokemon games, but I don't see harm in increasing the number/variety of contests. So long as they don't end up potentially hogging the spotlight (and, depending on how this is set up, the people who want the best of both worlds are kinda kicked in the face).
Contests? Blegh, me no like.
Something I'd like to see is the return of different trainer options in PvP battles. FireRed and LeafGreen saw us the option to make more than Lucas vs. Dawn, Lucas vs. Lucas, and Lucas vs. Dawn matches by allowing us to choose to be things like Lass, Cooltrainer, and such when in the Union Room. I guess D/P made a partial nod in that direction on the GPS, where the trainer sprites are different, but I want that extended to Wifi battling and such.
I'd actually like to be a bad guy. They get those awesome generic Lv. 40 Wurmples :D