Well if it's as simple as creating a application then why haven't they done it yet, considering the release date is not that far away? If something as significant as if the game is going to backwards compatible or not is still be decided this close to release gets me wondering. I'm also concerned as to why there the new region is so huge? If there's a need to split the pokedex into three different sections, then there must be many pokemon from other generations available in this region. I wonder why there's a need for this. Something just dosen't seem right. Also it's on Google. I can't post links yet lol. Just Google Pokemon X and Y backwards compatibility. Apparently it's being "worked on", meaning right now it's not backwards compatible. Well if there working on it then that should be proof enough that at least they want the games to be backwards compatible, does it not? Still it just dosen't seem right, like they are having more difficulties then we could imagine.
Moreover, while I would be happy with a fresh start I would be upset. I'm 20 years old and still find pokemon games great RPG fun. I haven't played them in a while but have many great memories playing them. I lost a lot of time playing them with high school and college. A fresh start would allow me to actually play the game without having to worry about all the time I lost not playing or all the Pokemon games I didn't have because $30 is a lot when you are a little kid lol. If it's a fresh start then I may buy every pokemon game that comes out on this start, and go to every event. When I was a little kid I just didn't have the money to do so and now that wouldn't be a problem.
Lets just face the facts, what little kid has enough money and could really catch them all? Buying all those games and traveling to all those different locations to get event pokemon is just not possible, at least it wasn't for me.
Well if it's as simple as creating a application then why haven't they done it yet, considering the release date is not that far away?
For those going "Why wouldn't our theoretical app work for the Gen 4 games too?" We're not sure if the 3DS can even interact with those game cards the same way it can interact with Black2 and White2. I mean, B2/W2 can receive data from the Pokemon Dream Radar, and the Dream Radar can presumably read data from B2/W2 (it does this to check if there's room to send more Pokemon/items or if a set of Pokemon/items hasn't been claimed yet). In fact, we're not even sure if the 3DS apps can interact with Black/White, as we don't have apps that do anything with those two.
Even then, B2/W2 could be set up in such a way that ONLY data in the area where Dream Radar data is stored can be accessed by a 3DS app, which would be why they're having difficulty with backwards compatibility (which I haven't heard ANYTHING mentioned at all about before the OP's post, btw. A source would be nice.)
Rest assured, because 3DS games can be updated, if X and Y don't launch with backwards compatibility, it can be added on in the future.
It would be great to have a feature with the Wii U, maybe have some kind of Park to put your pokemons in and see them interact in different environment.
Only problem would be they'd lock that to Gen 6 only and only allow the game that deposited the Pokemon to withdraw it as well. If it were meant just for fun, that would be one thing. If meant to possibly fix the transfer problem and backwards compatibility I don't see anything happening.
Yes this is indeed worrying. Irc the reason Gen II couldn't be sent to Gen III was due to similiar backwards compability issues (that and all the new feature's Gen III had).Hmm.....this issue regarding backwards compatibility of Pokemon X and Y worries me as well - mainly because I plan to train a fully-evolved Pokemon of each species (and certain ones with different forms like Rotom, Unown, Wormadam, and Gastrodon) to Level 100 (beginning with Emerald and FireRed, eventually working to at least Black/Black 2, and having Black 2 as their migration limit would be quite the downer...
I'm game to potentially train more Pokemon anew in XY, but it would be nice if Pokemon requiring all of that effort to train to Level 100 (not even speaking of stuff like Contest preparations and RNG abuse) are transferable.. I've been anticipating that another "Gen 2 to Gen 3 incompatibility issue" could occur again in the future with the introduction of a new generation of games/new Nintendo system, but I'm hoping that XY's backwards compatibility issue can be rectified with an application or something.. I'm glad that the developers are striving to attend to the issue, though.
As for a potential transfer method, I would think that something like Poke Transfer of BW/B2W2 would be used (sans any time restrictions, like DPPt had *shudders*)...I would prefer it if we could just pick up our Pokemon at a designated spot or something without having to toil through searching/a minigame each time we transfer. If any game should have had Pal Park (the HGSS Pal Park variant without time restrictions), it should've been Black, White, Black 2, and White 2, since those were still playable on the Nintendo DS "Phat" and DS Lite, system models that are both compatible with Game Boy Advance (Generation III) handheld main series Pokemon games.
In any case, I'm glad that some sort of backwards compatibility has been maintained for 2 straight Pokemon generations, that's an impressive feat, in my opinion.
OMG; first post in the XY subforum! ^_^
Well I have thought of a few more points to discuss.
Financially it just dosen't make much since for Game Freak to not make the games backwards compatible. However there may not be a need to if the new games are going to have huge regions and have many games from older generations.
These games are targeted towards young kids who are mostly new players. Now how is a 8 year old kids supposed to collect them all? Let's call this kid Billy. Billy begs his parents for Pokemon X or Pokemon Y as $40 is a lot of money for a 8 year old kid. His parents by one of the games for him. Because the games are backwards compatible (which I'm starting to think is impossible) Billy will have to go through a ton of work to "catch them all". If the games are backwards compatible then there will most likely be a point into having them be so and you like catching them all. Why invest time and energy in something otherwise? Billy goes online to see how much a Pokemon Sapphire cartridge would cost him. Only to find that a brand new version of this game, which is older than him , would cost him over $300.00, not to mention all the other games he would need to buy as well. Eventually it just dosen't make sense any more to buy antique games to fully enjoy new games. If our 8 year old Billy ever comes up with $300 dollars to buy this game his mouth would drop and render the game unplayable due to it's low quality graphics etc. compared to today's games and left to question how anybody played them. It's like requiring people to buy old NES games and a old NES to fully enjoy game cube games. It eventually becomes unreasonable and impossible to catch them all without a fresh start.
I would also like to add that your right in the sense that owning all the old GBA games become pointless with the last couple of games. Not only good you not transfer to the new games because the new DSs didn't have a GBA slot and you had to first trade to Diamond/Pearl, there was no reason to own all of them. If I'm not mistaken, if you owned Emerald, a copy of either Fire Red/Leaf Green, and Both Stadium games you were good. However in order to get all the items you had to have all the old GBA cartridges in Diamond and Pearl because they gave you unique items. However now there's really no point in having all the old GBA games.
Pal Park/3DS application will not work
Pal Park -> There's not 2 game slots in the 3DS
3DS application -> Would require players to insert a DS cartridge into their 3DS, pop it out while the 3DS is still on, and pop in Pokemon X or Pokemon Y