Does everyone agree that this thing will not be a spinoff?
Yes, I b'lieve so.
Let's discuss WHY THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CAN'T BE RS REMAKES...
:: The Regi Trio, and Lati@s are already obtainable in the most recent games.
:: There is currently an ongoing event that distributes Groudon and Kyogre in Pokemon Centres in Japan in commemoration of Ruby & Sapphire 10th Anniversary.
:: Rayquaza was distributed early last year.
:: Deoxys was recently distributed in various Aeon Stores & Jump Festa last month.
If RS remakes is to be announced as the next game, it doesn't make sense to distribute the game's legendaries (especially the mascot) that will be obtainable in the game to begin with.
If anything, RS should've been released instead of B2W2 to commemorate it's 10th anniversary.
*applause*
So, just to be clear, because I'm rather slow on the uptake; you're trying to put the kibosh on all the starter and legendary speculation back a few pages, not the bickering about what games it could be, right?
That's the same reasoning that people used to claim that Gold & Silver wouldn't be remade, but we got remakes anyway. Well okay, maybe it's a little different. I'm talking about the people who said remakes of GS wouldn't happen because we already had the GS Legendaries like Ho-Oh and Lugia from Colosseum and XD respectively, and from the 10th anniversary events, as well as Entei, Raikou, Suicune and Celebi from the latter event.
Those were pains in the buttocks, though, due to requiring all manners of outdated hardware to obtain. All of the Hoenn legendaries were available this generation via crisp, clean WiFi event.
The other arguments were lack of compatibility between GSC and modern games and GSC carts having dying internal batteries, which isn't as applicable to Gen III.
I'm just saying, staff or not, a person has no right to act like a know it all. :/ It could be R/S remakes, it could be Gen VI. Who the hell knows at this point?
well, I mean
who knows what manner of secrets a staff member may know
I've heard Joe knows when Pokemon will end
Could the annoucement even be a GAME? The chances are it is, but it could not be. Maybe it's an announcent regarding GAMEFREAK. Not that their ending pokemon I've heard that one... But maybe a project who knows!
A project GameFreak undergoes would be a game. If it wasn't a Pokemon game, they wouldn't be advertising it almost exclusively to Pokemon fans.
If we get a new game title on Tuesday the game will come out in like May or June right? B2W2 was revealed in February and got released in June.
More like late summer/early fall.