I wish they could make a more in-depth, more "modern," I guess, Pokemon--better graphics, DIFFERENT CHARACTER DESIGN, and more personalization. Maybe have better animations for pokemon, more 3D; in other words, more mature, maybe. Not mature as in the rating, but mature in the fact that it could appeal to slightly older people so it's not so childish, while still entertaining the younger generation.

They kind of did that with generation 4. As far as a 3D game goes, an overworld is the best you're going to get. There simply isn't enough storage space on the cartridge to hold models and animations for every Pokemon and attack now.

The cartoonish-ness bothers me. I wish they could at least fix that. And with today's technology, I wouldn't be surprised if they found a way to fit enough memory on there soon.

The problem isn't with the technology, it's with the cost. Nintendo could make a full 3D Pokemon game on the DS, but they'd have to invest in larger cartridge sizes, which translates to a higher retail price. The game is mainly marketed towards kids, and it loosely follows an animated series, so the cartoon-ish aspect is probably likely to stay. If we were to see a full 3D Pokemon RPG it'd likely be a Wii title, rather than DS. DvD's have just enough storage space for all of the Pokemon/attack models and a fleshed-out overworld.

Ah, the animated series... The first couple seasons were amazing, but after that, it just when down hill. Maybe it helped that when the earlier ones came out, I was a little kid.

For the record, the anime follows the games, not the other way around. If the games got more mature as MANY age 10 target audience games are (hell, the Hannah Montana TV series is more mature than Pokemon, and I know because I watch), then the anime would follow suit. Also, GameFreak runs Pokemon, not Nintendo.

I'm pretty sure Nintendo does all the planning and work for everything that isn't the main game series. I know that Nintendo is directly responsible for the card game now.

Haven't other DS games--like Pokemon Ranger--done more or less 3D models before? Pokemon Ranger's moved around pretty well and looked good.

Pokemon Battle Revolution is a whopping 4.22GB, and I'd say about 80% of that is just Pokemon models and animations. A standard DS cartridge hold roughly 64MB, with the larger cartridges holding up to 128MB. While lower quality models wouldn't take up quite so much space, they'd still require more than the DS can currently offer.

The graphics for Pokémon (overworlds, characters, battle sprites) keeps on getting better. However, I think Pokémon would lose so much feel if it switched to all 3D -- the pixel art somehow kinda makes the games. Their Pixel art improves a ton with every generation, so I can only dream of what Generation V, if it ever comes, will be like with the pixel quality.

Pokémon Rangers sprites were very very good pixel art.

why not make a Game that uses the SD slot?

when you buy the game it comes with the DS card for actually running the game and a SD card that stores the 4Gigs (most likely less because they wouldn't be the same quality) of models and animations

That would be a good idea cuz then that would solve the problem wit all the GBA games

There are a couple problems with using an SD card. One is that the game would then be DSi only, severely cutting sales of the game. Another would be that the SD card could be easily read, and also written to. What would you do if someone were to accidentally overwrite the game data, complain to Nintendo? They can't really afford to constantly replace games like that.

couldn't you put some kind of lock on the Files like those tumbdrives with Turbotax on them?

There are always ways to get around things, and Nintendo is usually against using easily accessible media. The Wii is the first console of theirs to actually use a standard form of media.

I always thought they would eventually use the GBA slot for something akin to expansion packs; swapping in new islands on the universe or the sort. or just something in general that uses the slot (not necessarily the same card technology). Then the DSi came out and crushed those dreams.

"Pokemon Battle Revolution is a whopping 4.22GB, and I'd say about 80% of that is just Pokemon models and animations. A standard DS cartridge hold roughly 64MB, with the larger cartridges holding up to 128MB. While lower quality models wouldn't take up quite so much space, they'd still require more than the DS can currently offer."
I'm no expert but I think you are so so far off base here. Pokemon Stadium 2 was only 64 megabytes and had 250 Pokémon Models in it and a ton of animations for each one.

Yes... but you can't compare N64 games to DS games! It's madness!

I checked the size of the disk before I posted. Battle Revolution is exactly 4.22GB. Keep in mind that there are nearly double the amount of Pokemon and attacks as before, all with much more detailed models, animations, and textures.

I got it. Maybe more detailed animations that involved the Pokemon's picture. Like when Charizard used flamethrower or something similar, he opened his mouth before shooting out fire.