Lets face it; Pokemon is going to live on until Ash is rotting away in an old folks home... Pokemon will forever live on! Mario has done it, hes been going for decades and is still ploughing on as youthful as ever even with the zimmerframe chained to his wrists. They can always replace Ash with a different character. Of course this would lose the original fanbase, but hey, if Ash is gonna die we all have to accept it damnit!
All sort of ideas can be chucked into it. Like, they could go down a Final Fantasy route and make it based in a different time, or just more of a developed story. If they carried on with the simple Ash story, I wouldn't stand for it much longer. There used to be a time when I bought the game for the story. Now I want it to battle poke's against REAL people over cyberspace! So I guess the story wouldn't be paid much attention to anyway with this new feature. But I REALLY want Game Freak to push the boat out a little at least and change it! I mean, we can always play the old story if we want. Perhaps if they gave us the option to 'save the world' as well as 'ultimate pokemon master'... I want a new direction, kthnx?
Maybe give us an ACTUAL POKEMON GAME ON A CONSOLE!!!!*Dramatic music plays*
This is such a great idea! If they did this, think of the possibilities! Pokemon would probably be in 3D with the extra space available for storage, they'd be able to enhance the battle system, the map, the gameplay...! Maybe the trainer would be able to be modified, changing clothes, facial features, height, weight, anything you can think of... this would bring a new dimension to the customizing front. Simply changing names would be a thing of the past!
And with the capabilities of online play now pretty much broad over most consoles coming out now, it wouldn't half increase the amount of people playing the game. The only thing I would be worried about on that though, would be... having to pay a monthly fee or something to play online and battle people. That would be so horrible! I want it for free! If I pay for the game then surley that is all I need!
Unless of course it was on an Xbox similar thing, in which case it would be a separate fee anyway. That would be cool. But still...!