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All we ever wanted was a Pokemon (like the gameboy games) but in 3D and for a home console.

We hoped they'd do it for the Nintendo 64 (Pokemon Snap was FANTASTIC, Pokemon Stadium fun, but no full-fledged Pokemon adventure game).

Then we hoped they'd do it for the Gamecube.

Then we hoped they'd do it for the Wii.

Then I crawled under a rock and stopped caring about video games.

Also, since about halfway through the lifecycle of the Wii I really wished Nintendo would start being a software-only company and move away from hardware so they could focus on amazing content. I'm still rooting for them even though I don't keep up to date with what's current in gaming.

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Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness is in 3D and is available on Gamecube. It's pretty cool.

Here's a video of a battle in it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG5AfTYYz8w

I have fond memories of Pokemon XD. Wish they'd make another one like it for the Wii U or whatever the NX turns out to be.

I don't know about you but what I've always imagined as an awesome pokemon game would be a 3D MMORPG, with a huge world in which I can catch will pokemons by fighting them or start a fight with another player. I'm pretty sure that I'm not the first one thinking about this idea but Nintendo has never made something like this for whatever reason they have.

I don't know about you but in my generation everyone who got into pokemon played them on an emulator and at 2-6x speed. I tried playing it on a 3DS and I would probably go mental if I played that game and watched all those slow animations - the fun from that game is about optimizing "builds" and exploring - but normal game speed has soo much slow walk animations.

Yes, I got a PSP when it first came out and it pretty quickly became exclusively a Nintendo emulator for me. Pokemon on the PSP at faster speeds was remarkable. It mad going back to the Gameboy painful.

Can they really make up for the lower margins from publishing on a 3rd party platform through higher volume?

3D as in Pokemon X & Y?

> .. for a home console

Seems like he wanted it for an actual connected-to-tv console.

I think Pokémon makes a whole lot more of sense as a handheld game.

Ni no kuni is quite close. You should try it.

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