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A series producer of Pokemon says The Pokemon Company wishes to create more full-scale remakes of older Pokemon games like it did with Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that developers at The Pokemon Company are planning to carry all of this momentum into 2017 and even further. Pokemon series producer Junichi Masuda spoke to IGN lately and said that the company is looking to make some additional full-scale remakes of previous Pokemon games.
“I think the remakes, like Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen, is still an approach we’re interested in,” Masuda told IGN. “With the Virtual Console releases of the original games, specifically there had never been a way to bring those Pokemon over to the latest generation. It had always been that you couldn’t get those Pokemon out.”
Masuda added that services like the Pokemon bank and the Poke Transporter finally allowed developers to release the original versions on Virtual Console, which gives players the option to upload older generations into more modern titles. The original Pokemon games, Red, Blue, and Yellow came out earlier this year on the Virtual Console to celebrate Pokemon’s 20th anniversary.
Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen could have been the first remakes, released for the Game Boy Advance in 2004, but more recent example of what’s supposedly coming down the pipeline is something like Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, which launched in 2014 for the 3DS. Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire are thought to be generation 6 titles but they are actually enhanced remakes of generation 3 titles Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire.
In any case, Masuda made it clear to IGN that the developer is certainly interested in doing more than just porting old titles to Nintendo’s Virtual Console, like it did with the original games for the 20th anniversary. But he went on and said that the team is now concentrating on the upcoming Pokemon Sun and Moon.
“I think that we really want to give people the experience of bringing these Pokemon from the original Game Boy and seeing what they look like in Pokemon Sun and Moon. That is something that I want people to enjoy.”
Pokemon Sun and Moon is scheduled to be released on November 18, 2016 on Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 2DS.
