Well I'd much rather have a down loadable port of the old version. Why would it hamper sales? It could be used to push the sales of DS! any way that logic would mean no DSi-shop game could be a full game and would have to be ports or mini games. The down loaded games are stored in the internal memory or the SD card and a super card is capable of playing many full DS games so whats to say the DS cartridge can't pull it off if there space?
*feels like going off on tangents at times* First off, each to his/her own, I suppose. I would prefer a remake. (There are always the roms and such one can easily get online for the original GSC anyway).
Hamper sales? Well IMHO, there would not be that many who would be willing to by the overpriced DSi for one sole game, which is would be the case for many with a DS/DS lite and have no need for a DSi which is essentially the same thing, with some new features. There may be the odd person that would of course, but if you sold the game across each DS then everyone would be able to buy the GS remake - assuming that it is made, of course. Chances are if they would buy the DSi for one game, and had the money to do so, they'd have bought it anyway as well, so there's little gain there.
I doubt they'd choose to try to limit a Pokemon game's sales by restricting what consoles if can be played on when at most, only the odd feature would be usable by the DSi (as stated by various spokes-people on the DSi), such as taking picture... and IMO there's not much a Pokemon game has to do with taking pictures anyway, unless it's Pokemon Snap. At any rate, there are no DSi-only games that shall be made for a good while, if ever.
Besides, a GS remake would be advertised as a core handheld game, like what FR/LG were - rather than an exclusive game.
Also note the whole memory issue - current DS games take up far more space than what a GB game would take up. And not only that, but current DS games - like Pokemon D/P/Pt take a good amount of time to make and program and what-not. Now, a GS port would require very little changes - but a remake, if you knew some things about programming, wouldn't be as easy as simply changing the graphics and so forth. Even some of the game mechanics of GSC would need changing to current ones (like the IV system which is different to all 3rd gen and beyond Pokemon games).
Memory space is a possible issue - I don't quite believe it would stop Johto and Kanto being made in a possible GS remake, but it
could. After all, there's a heck of a lot to go in - each Pokemon has it's one set of data, for movesets, and levels, and so forth - consider there's about 500 of them and that's a fair bit. That with the gameplay, story, two regions, and all of that other stuff, and one can only guess at whether they could fit it all in. After all, GSC's Kanto was downsized because of a lack of space in the memory.
Given all that it would actually take to do a remake, they would be unlikely to put it on the DSi shop, for those games are to be sold at 'low prices' - kinda like the prices of games like Ranch are on the Wii VC which did not take much time to implement and sell, and is a side game, as opposed to Wii games like PBR, which was advertised as the 'bigger' Wii Pokemon game, and took longer to make. So that some profit came from it, it gained a bigger price tag as a result. Basically, like the Wii VC, the DSi shop would be for past, smaller games, or new, not-fully fledged out games, like what a GS remake would.
No, not really it not a good time. It would be better left for the gap between now and next gen. We already have Platinum and pushing out a remake would be to soon at the moment. They already have a new Mystery dungeon coming out and flooding the market with so many Pokemon games is over the top. We have two new Pokemon games can't you wait just a bit for when you really need it? As for the accursed bloody annoying system I don't see why they would put out a game to fix it when Platinum is 5 Months old. It would have made more logic being release before Platinum
There is no telling when a GS remake could be exactly, tbh. Could be easily next gen, or never. However, the reason why the next main handheld game could be a GS remake for this gen is down to a number of things - firstly, coding for Pokemon to be 'able' to come from Johto - never mind that this coding is unnecessary *points to 'From a Distant Land' Pokemon from Orre*, and that no Pokemon from Johto can yet come into D/P/Pt.
That alone shows that they have considered that they could make a game involving Johto - and a GS remake. Whether they make it is another question. If a GS remake is in the 5th gen then this coding could come into effect IF cross-gen trading was allowed, but considering one-way is probably the most likely, then it leaves it open.
Then there's the rest - a notable lack of 2nd Gen Pokemon in any 4th gen game, unlike the others (1st = Kanto birds, 3rd = Regis in Platinum), and suddenly the movies include the Johto starters, and a Pichu. It does shape up for a GS remake in the not-too-distant future, seemingly.
Right now people here are losing jobs even if Japan is not effected but I for one and lot of parents don't have the money to go buying a new pokemon game every month.
Nevertheless, it would not stop the millions of sales Pokemon games generate. Just look at Platinum and how much it sold - fact is that Pokemon games make money. Also they wouldn't release them every month - more like every year as past sales have had it (to increase sales of each game - more marketing!). But anyway: I don't see them announcing, let alone releasing a GS remake right now either. They'd want to sell Platinum everywhere first like they did with all of the other games, and then move onto the next one.
Ooh, and never mind people repeating stuff or not responding to posts. It happens everywhere on the internet, and threads tend to have different discussions. Or he/she may simply not have had much interest in responding to what you said - just let it slide. =)
