Pokémon X and Pokémon Y

Pokemon MMO on the Wii U & 3DS, please. PLEASE. That would pull me right back into the series instantly.

Everyone's hopes for an MMO are too high, though. They'll never deliver one. sadface.jpg


I'll probably be just an announcement for a new game for the 3DS - either a remake of previous entries or something.

What would you want out of a Pokemon MMO, though? Besides the lack of a market for such a thing in Japan, Pokemon just doesn't lend itself to MMO gameplay at all; being a turn-based 1v1/2v2 strategy/RPG with little room for expansion other than a handful of events to get rare Pokemon. Trading and battling (and possibly the Battle Tower-type activities, but the horrendous and unadapting AI turns that into a game of odds more than anything else) are the main attractions that work well online, and they've existed since Gen 4 and can be further improved upon.

Playing Pokemon with friends and sharing experiences is fun, so I understand the desire to see opportunities for more interaction, but MMO just doesn't make sense for Pokemon. I'd much rather see co-op storylines to play through and other forms of small scale multiplayer interaction that would allow you to jump into friends' games. Those have also existed in primitive forms in previous games, they weren't fleshed out enough to be interesting.