Serebii

Ended up with 19 hearts somehow ;;

Holy hell, 5-S is amazing

That's not their intent and you know it. The intent is to trade with friends. Not Game Freak's fault if some people don't have friends.

I agree with much of what you said but I have to jump in here. They're not missing much. There are very few first party NES and SNES games that remain missing from the Wii U VC lineup and N64, GBA & DS are in progress. They have implied cross platform buy is coming, including Wii U so it'd work at launch of NX, though.

They need to just send a patch out that adds "colour filter" to the bloody options. Do it now while there's only 5 N64 games.

Then that'd be a spin-off and I'm all for that

Well, there it is

To be fair, that's very uncommon.

Yep. All three titles.

Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and Advance Wars 2 are both on the Wii U VC this week

Balance again for starters, though they are back to experimenting with secondary types. For HMs, they've cut back on that drastically, though ORAS has them more than BW/B2W2/XY due to it being a remake. As for tough trainers, I agree to an extent, however the game's adventure pre-E4 is more about endurance than beating toughest trainers.

The 6 Pokémon stuff is for balance. The game would be ridiculous if you carried all your Pokémon with you.

Even away from events, though, portable is a key thing that should not be ignored. While a few people may not see it as a core feature, others do including the developers. Also, I personally would hate for it to go the MMO style route. It's un-necessary and would clog up the game. Here's an image from a fan made Pokémon MMO Internet people are the worst and ruin it by doing things like that, blocking entrances etc.

I just did 5-5...

Now we're into the characters that nobody outside the core know so nobody is buying them :p

Course not, they want it to sell :p

All of which is possible on handhelds, though...

No. Absolutely not. They're as much the same as Mario games are to their predecessors, Zelda games etc. They follow similar archetypes and are of the same genre, but they are different.

Posted in a group I'm in. It's over...restocks have put in decent supply. We may not have to overly worry much anymore

Oh god, Ronnie, you did NOT just say that it's the same game over and over. Do you know the can of worms you just opened? :p Yeah, but in doing so, to keep to the realms of reality, we should discuss what justification is included in the game to deviate and scrap the portable aspects. Yet me bringing that up has apparently caused conflict.

My logic is not conducive to whether it will sell or not. It's the fact that portability is KEY to the series and to remove it, even if there is a portable counterpart would damage and segment the community and so they need justification for it. Thanks @Cube for deleting my post which was explaining this :p

And with what evidence do you come to that conclusion? It's a risk and there is no evidence that it'd sell better than handhelds. Would they rather sell 15 million on handheld, or 5 million on home console with a bigger budget? Not to mention the loss of a key aspect of the franchise. It's not just me saying it, it's the developers and people behind the franchise.

More people have bought Pokémon Omega Ruby or Alpha Sapphire than have bought a Wii U. I think Game Freak is making the right call. You are STILL missing the fact that portability is fundamental with Pokémon and there has to be some major justification for doing it without it. That's all I'm saying. I'm not saying "HURRR IT CAN'T HAPPEN", I'm saying there needs to be decent justification for it and nobody has actually suggested any legitimate reason for it, especially as handhelds are powerful now.

For you? Sure, but there's a very large portable presence for Pokémon that shouldn't be ignored. @FireMeowth mentioned his community, and that's just a small one. There are huge communities around the globe. Premier Challenges every month across the world that attract 100+ people a piece. Regional Championships, National Championships etc. Japan in general, too. Why should people who only buy the home console one be locked out of these things? That's why there has to be something fundamental for it to be justifiable.

Well that is your right, and you're welcome to it, however you are ignoring a vast amount of facts and data to come to your view.