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Why is everyone so certain there will be a 5th Generation?

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Theneedleman

crazyengage
Money = 5th Gen
Plain and simple until Pokemon doesn't sell, the Pokemon games will get completely and utterly worse.
 

BlackHawkGS

Psychic Master
As everyone else has said, Pokemon rakes in the money. It's probably one of Nintendo's best money-makers right now, and they have no reason to stop creating new pokemon. They'll pretty much create spinoffs until they run out of ideas, then create a new generation for ideas for new spinoffs.

Yes, they're going to cover Japanese islands. But I don't recall them saying they'll stop after they've done that.

And storyline? Man, if you've been playing pokemon for it's storyline then I don't know where the hell you've been.
 

revenge

reshiram ftw
As everyone else has said, Pokemon rakes in the money. It's probably one of Nintendo's best money-makers right now, and they have no reason to stop creating new pokemon. They'll pretty much create spinoffs until they run out of ideas, then create a new generation for ideas for new spinoffs.

Yes, they're going to cover Japanese islands. But I don't recall them saying they'll stop after they've done that.

And storyline? Man, if you've been playing pokemon for it's storyline then I don't know where the hell you've been.

aren't they doing the 9 regions of japan?

here they are http://courses.wccnet.edu/~donw/jpg/japan/map_regions.jpg
 

Dusk

Dawn
I know I'm repeating what nearly everyone else has said, but I need to get this point across...Pokemon is still raking in the dough, there is no need to stop the franchise.

If I'm not mistaken, Pokemon Diamond and Pearl were one of the biggest DS money-makers of 2006 and 2007. Could you imagine the amount of money Satoshi Tajiri will rake in if they add more Pokemon in a fifth generation?

Also, isn't both Johto and Kanto on the island of Honshu? If I'm correct with this, no region has been located on the island of Shikoku.

If you absolutely insist on hating pokemon so much then leave this forum, because quite frankly, nobody wants you here if your going to have that attitude.
 
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scythemantis

Creepy crawly
This is such an idiotic debate. ALL game series add new worlds, characters, creatures and items as they go along. That's the entire point. That's what a series is for. The only difference is that in Pokemon, all of the oldest creatures can be brought into the newest games. This is slightly unusual for a video game, but the accepted standard for things like trading card and miniatures games. Magic: the gathering has THOUSANDS of monsters now, and is still going strong with each new set of cards eagerly anticipated by its fandom.

There are limitless possible concepts Pokemon, can be based on and limitless new strategies and levels of gameplay that can be added. 4th gen did not "tie up" ANYTHING. There is nothing to tie up. There is always room for expansion and expansion is always welcomed by rational fans of any franchise. How can there be "too many" Pokemon? You aren't required to collect them all. Your goal is to assemble a team that you enjoy using, and the more there are, the more options you have.

Furthermore, I can think of hundreds of extremely obvious concepts they haven't exploited for Pokemon at all. Animals as commonplace and popular as ants and dolphins don't even have Pokemon yet.
 

Menx

Well-Known Member
Pokemon games always have realy high sails so there is no reasion for Nintendo to stop. It would be such a shame if thay did stop makeing Pokemon games.
 

Zadros

Incorrigible slacker
I think Nintendo would have to be stupid to give up on such a successful franchise. If you've got a good thing going, keep it up for as long as you can.
 

King Lawliet

Cero Miedo!
Wouldnt nintendo tell when they'll stop the pokemon franchise....not that we'll belieeve them
 

Diz~

Combat Specialist
They gonna make a 5th generation alright, and it probably be release on 2009 or 2010. Hell it been 10 years already, and they already release 4 generation. They gonna keep making pokemon until it over 9000.

Vegeta: IT OVER 9000!!!

Nappa: What!?! 9000!!

Hell, I can't even remember all the pokemon name anymore. So I'm just sticking to my favorite that I'm use to. I thought to this days, kids won't be able to remember the first generation anymore, since 4th generation came out. At first, I thought there can only be 151 pokemon in existence. I was wrong. Now I stop believing that there a certain number of pokemon. It will keep going and going and going until we can't remember who is weakness to who.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBtpyeLxVkI
 

jorisw

Well-Known Member
$$$they do it for money$$$
 

Count Drosselmeyer

You never saw me.
I thought I'd toss in my two cents, even though it's already been said over a hundred and fifty times:

The simple fact is, as long as the games are selling well, Nintendo will keep making them. They had a whole big media thing for the 4th gen(with all the toys and TV specials and stuff) to get the new 6-12 year-old demographic into Pokemon. Diamond and Pearl are the best selling Pokemon games so far, and Pokemon's ten years old already.

Mario and Zelda have lasted many, many years. Pokemon will do the same. It's an original and enjoyable type of game that appeals to many people, just like Mario and Zelda, and it will continue to sell well.

That's all I'm gonna say, because it's all been said before on this topic.

Pokemon is still going strong, and it won't go away just because you stop enjoying it.
 

Mewtwo's Apprentice

Master in training
5th Gen = lots of dosh. Enough said.
 

the master123

Ive Gotta bad feelin
Pokemon needs to continue it must be greatest game ever this is the era of Pokemon an era that hopefully will last forever.

(ok i think i went overboard their)
 

Tyranitar trainer

Back for a bit
Nintendo aren't going to stop now
Pokemon is a high selling product and when the do end if they do they'll have a massive ending
 

Blivsey

DATA_ERROR
DCVM22 is right. The franchise still sells like hotcakes. Until it's not making them profit anymore, I seriously doubt that Nintendo will stop making Pokémon games. And the main games are the ones that not only sell the best, but they sell a lot of systems, too. A new Pokémon game usually causes a large surplus in handheld system sales.

Besides the obvious financial reasons, it'd probably turn a lot of fans into a raging mob if they announced the end of the Pokémon franchise. And I know that the big N does care about its fandom, to a degree.
 

Gengar Fan

Well-Known Member
I actually bought a DS just for Diamond. I plan on gettin some other games of course, but Diamond is what made me want to get one in the first place.
 

Slayer

Life's a Beach.
omg
really?
Okay its making them something the world likes to call money
they want that thing
besides
its not like gamefreak makes anything else then that
pokemon will stop only once it gets into a sex scandel
and considering its a game
never going to happen
 

BCVM22

Well-Known Member
PEOPLE.

The OP gets it. Or even if he doesn't get it, he's moved on. There was a reason this thread hadn't had a post in it in 3 WEEKS. Stop posting just to repeat the obvious.
 
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