And also, it kills the fun of trading to catch them all. It's also quite a bit of cash to dish out. IMO, it's not worth it. No offense, guys :D
But for some people, it's not fun to trade with other people. I'm the only local player of Pokemon games that I know. Finding someone with HeartGold (since I first picked up SoulSilver because I only had money to pre-order one since the credit card machines were down at the store) around me is going to be a difficult task.
And yes, there is the Wi-Fi trading, but that requires both people being on at the same time. My schedule is rather different from when most people are on (these forums are dying/dead when I have the most time to be here), so finding someone to trade with
and who's on at the same time isn't that easy of an option.
Instead, it's a lot more "fun" for me to have both HG and SS to trade between. I have the systems to do so, and I like knowing where my Pokemon came from. It's just a personal preference.
Also what's fun for me is experimenting with different teams and Pokemon. Trying to do things different ways in the same game, and I really don't want to do that on my "main" SS game, since I don't want to lose the work I put into that game.
And two Pokewalkers. Yes please.
I've always had only one version of the games to play around with, due to lack of money and a selfish older sibling. Now that I can finally have the opportunity to get both versions, I'm going to make good use of that. Is it just the same game in different packaging? Yes, but I just want to experience both games for once, especially with a game pair that I've been waiting for for quite some years.
They purposely leave features out of the first two versions to sell more copies of the third.
You mean Nintendo purposely makes a third version of the same game interesting to people so that they'll spend money on it for different features? It's weird to us, but then again, Nintendo knows what they're doing. It's worked well enough for them that they've done it
so many times in the past, even with non-mainstream games (Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky). While it might be better for the players to only have one game with everything in it, they're going to repeat a successful pattern. Many other companies have done that as well, like EA Games and their many many Sims expansion packs/stuff packs (pay $20 for three new hairs and a new bed!)
I honestly didn't mean to go all "srs business" with this post. Sorry about that.