Nintendo is a very stubborn Japanese company. They've already ruled out entering the mobile hardware market themselves and developing on non-Nintendo hardware probably wont happen until the company is in ruins.

True...very true, I hadn't considered that to be honest although it does show that people are interested in that sort of thing at least, I'd bet it would have done quite well even if it was more expensive anyway, I know I would buy it in half a heartbeat.
Last handheld I had was the little flippy square gameboy so my pokemon fun ended with ruby and I have no need for an other handheld device to carry around so an iOS port would be a great thing to have.

So.... Pokemon black/white 2 was announced. I started playing the first one and it was fun but I don't own a DS (yet) so I didn't get to play much.

It's good for you and the few others like you, but for Nintendo, releasing games on a smartphone means nothing but losses. Upfront losses due to switching to the phone's programming language (all their current programmers would have to learn the new tools and cruft), per-sale losses due to the app store cut being taken out (generally around 30%), peripheral losses due to no longer being able to sell peripherals in the same manner, and third-party losses as now third-party game developers no longer pay them. Nintendo has a very strong mobile gaming base, and to throw that away, at least into the foreseeable future, would be to throw away huge profits. It's purely a logical business decision to keep their games off smartphones


I lost interest in B/W due to c-gear hogging the bottom screen that I only used once (when in line at Anime Expo waiting to pick up my badge... there were like 50 people in range playing B/W ). Hopefully B2/W2 brings back the menu being the default on the bottom screen. The interface in HG/SS was just the best because I always had access to the menu and using the PC was a breeze due to just dragging and dropping, but B/W killed all that awesomeness off

No 3ds not buying.

Why not? I'm glad they aren't on the 3DS so I don't have to spend another ~$180 to play them.

You can still play it on your 3DS, just with DS graphics. And honestly, are graphics that important in a Pokemon game?

You say that like it's a good thing. It's fine that you like your iOS mobile gaming, but that doesn't mean it's the best option for everybody.

Black and White in my opinion is up there in terms of the best Pokemon games, so the 2nd ones should be just as good if not better.

I haven't touched a Pokemon game since Red/Blue back on the Gameboy. I'm not really a fan of the newer pokemon, so I'll probably just spend my days remembering the good ole 151.

I stopped after Silver, Gold and Crystal, which I thought had plenty of additions that were as good as most of the original 151. My problem these days isn't so much the designs, but the sheer number of them. I do like that Black and White put so much emphasis on the 150 new Pokemon though. It's the closest to a complete reboot that we've seen and it's why I plan on picking them up to mark my return to the series.

i had a pokemon game years ago on my ds. i got it because i just HAD to have one of those pokewalk gadget things. played the game till the end then it turned into a grindfest so i got bored of it pretty quickly. plus i realised it was kind of sad for a 25+ year old to be walking around with a pokemon toy in his pocket. traded it in for another game. then ended up selling my ds and buying a steering wheel for my pc. i miss my ds...

In regards to porting pokemon to ios... Seriously, has anyone jailbroken their phones before and gotten the emulator app? I've played through Emerald twice one it, and not once did it lag or lose fps. Or even crash in that matter

It's not about whether it's able to run it or not, of course it can. It's about whether it would be a good idea from Nintendo's standpoint to make one of their system sellers cross-platform.

Likely..although most people are aware that discussing use of emulators is against forum rules..

No Pokemon Grey? Where is Pokemon Grey!

I'm honestly not surprised that they didn't put these onto the 3Ds, especially since last time I checked, the 3DS is still doing worse than expected over in the land of the rising sun, or for that matter, that it's 2 games instead of 1. Nintendo is looking to get as much money as possible with the least amount of effort.

http://www.siliconera.com/2012/02/20/nintendo-3ds-reaches-5-million-in-japan-breaks-record/

May not have done too well in the states, but the price of the 3DS has dropped significantly