Pokemon has not proven itself outside of GB. The games like Pokemon Dash or Pokemon Stadium sell, but do not live up to the million+ sellers on GB. But is the topdown RPG format with a long story and collecting going to sell for another generation? I would think that they could use the DS' special features instead of just sprucing up the graphics and adding more story as they have done with GBA Pokemons.
Somesort of Nintendogs/Pokemon would be intriguing. Raise your Pokemon from a youngling and enter it in tournaments where you have to yell out commands instead of button inputs. Make it do tricks and learn attacks. Reward your Pikachu with a tummy rub. Tap the head of an enemy to target their face with attacks. Rumble pack or Pokemon Pinball in the GBA slot for damage force feedback. Watch it grow in size. Have little Pokemon balls for your DS cartridge as a pre-order item. I think that is about as close to being in the cartoon as possible without having your own gene splicer and frankenstein machine. That would be Nintendogs with a battle component and perhaps an RPG story or a method to use stored GBA pokemon on the DS nd if it was online it would destroy everything.
The framework is set with Nintendogs and its 3 different dog packs. But with Pokemon they could have dozens of different cartridges for the hundreds of Pokemon.
Somesort of Nintendogs/Pokemon would be intriguing. Raise your Pokemon from a youngling and enter it in tournaments where you have to yell out commands instead of button inputs. Make it do tricks and learn attacks. Reward your Pikachu with a tummy rub. Tap the head of an enemy to target their face with attacks. Rumble pack or Pokemon Pinball in the GBA slot for damage force feedback. Watch it grow in size. Have little Pokemon balls for your DS cartridge as a pre-order item. I think that is about as close to being in the cartoon as possible without having your own gene splicer and frankenstein machine. That would be Nintendogs with a battle component and perhaps an RPG story or a method to use stored GBA pokemon on the DS nd if it was online it would destroy everything.
The framework is set with Nintendogs and its 3 different dog packs. But with Pokemon they could have dozens of different cartridges for the hundreds of Pokemon.