Tag: Pokémon

vikingboybilly asks:

Do you think it’s cool that they figured out how to send 1st generation pokémon to generation 7? Too bad it’s a decade too late for my Silver and Crystal buddies =(

Well, I would assume that this is something they planned for when they were putting together the 3DS versions of Red and Blue.  So it’s not so much that they figured anything out, more that they had the opportunity to sidestep all of the problems that ever made it an issue in the first place.  My understanding (and I’m vague on exactly how this works so take it with a grain of salt) is that the reason Pokémon couldn’t be transferred from II to III is because the earlier games stored Pokémon data in a different format to the later ones.  So all they would have had to do for these new versions of Red and Blue is… not do that.  There aren’t even any issues of hardware compatibility because they’re being released as 3DS apps and can be programmed to interface directly with Pokébank.  So like… I think it was a good idea for marketing purposes, and it’s nice that we can do that, but it’s not like it would have been particularly difficult, as far as I am aware.

Anonymous asks:

I don’t know if you’ve looked closely at the screenshots from Pokemon Sun and Moon, but if you have what are your thoughts on the bird Pokemon they show. Do you think it will be another generic starter bird? Maybe a starter?

Okay so something you should understand about me is that I am a terrible, awful wet blanket when it comes to pre-release speculation.  Like, pretty much anything that anyone says at this point, my reaction is “yeah but there is literally no way you can prove that so I don’t care.”  Case in point, with that half-finished wireframe model we saw for a few seconds, I’m not even 100% convinced it wasn’t a Skarmory.  I mean, it’s probably not because it looked like it had some kind of poofy headdress thing, but the first time I saw that trailer it honestly didn’t even occur to me that I might be looking at a new Pokémon at all.  And even once we get that far, I just have zero interest in using such incredibly scanty information to make vague and poorly informed guesses about something that we’re just going to be straight up told in a few months anyway.  I’m boring like that.

I much prefer making vague and poorly informed guesses about subjects that Game Freak is never going to give us more information about.  That way I can never be definitively proven wrong!  Muwhahahahaha!