Could this be the generation they do away with pairing the games up?

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We all know that Pocket Monsters games are released in pairs. Red and Green. Gold and Silver. Ruby and Sapphire. Diamond and Pearl. It's only natural to assume that Generation V will be released as a set of two games.

But have you guys considered that they might stop doing that?

The whole idea of splitting the games up was to get players to double dip so they can get all the pokemon, right? Or, if you believe the interviews, to get fans to go out and meet other fans. But with WiFi and the GTS, hasn't the idea of version exclusive pokemon pretty much become obsolete? You don't need to buy more than one game in Generation IV to get all of them, and I can't imagine that Generation V will be any different. Nintendo counts pairs of games as one game anyway when talking about sales figures, so why not just go that extra step and actually make them one game?

Do you think paired games are a gimmick whose time has come, or do you think it's become too much of a tradition for Nintendo to abandon?
 
personally i think they are going to stay in their little rut, nut i'm open to them going to just one game
 
They won't change it. The compulsory trading to complete the Pokédex was (I think) one of the innovations that made Pokémon Red and Green so unique. And no, one was never actually meant to buy both games, unless one was a friendless loser or none of his friends played the game (both of which were rare back then, I think). I bought/received Red, Yellow, Gold, Sapphire and Platinum -with the exception of the first generation, one game per gen.

Aaaand, it of course brings in extra revenues if someone actually buys both versions :p
 
Well, that thread hasn't been bumped in weeks. Bumping it to ask for more current discussion would be a bit taboo, I'm pretty sure.

I think we might only get one version, actually. Aside from the reasons Dogasu gave, the teaser site shows a box for every game so far with an arrow pointing to the new game... but only one box is shown. Although that may not mean anything, it certainly makes this more likely than if there were two boxes.
 
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