Will There Be a 5th Generation?

[gashmoigidy]

Do you think they will make a 5th generation of pokemon? If you do, do you think it'll be good? Discuss!

[bullados]

I'd be surprised if there *wasn't* a 5th generation.

Worldwide, Platinum has Quintuple Platinum sales (5 million plus).

Diamond and Pearl are approaching Double Diamond in total (about 17 million).

There has never been a main series Pokemon game to sell less than 5 million. In fact, Platinum is currently the low man on the Pokemon totem pole, followed by Emerald, Crystal, FRLG, Yellow, RS, DP, GS, and RBG in that order.

Nintendo would not allow such a profitable franchise to just go to waste. They're too smart for that.

[gashmoigidy]

Very true. The game is still going very strong. Another subject of discussion; some think as we go along the pokemon get less and less like the original. Do you think the 5th gen pokemon would even really fit?

[Noah121]

Bullados, you have an interesting point with the sales exceeding 5 million for all of the Pokemon series. How do those numbers compare to some of the other staples in the Nintendo lineup, such as Zelda or Mario?

[bullados]

No Zelda game has ever gone Diamond. The highest selling Zelda game ever was Ocarina of Time with under 8 million.

For Mario, I'm going to ignore all of the spinoffs and stuff like that and focus only on the main games that contain "Super Mario" in the title. I'm also ignoring all of the downloadable rehash games, as there's no real way to track those, as well as the remakes on the GBA and DS. The lowest selling Mario game ever was SMW2: Yoshi's Island for the SNES. This sold low because it came out at the end of the SNES's life cycle. Every other SMB game has exceeded 5 million sales. The original SMB and SMW both went double-Platinum (20 million), but those can't really be counted as they were packaged with the system. NSMB for the DS has over 19 million sales, and there are 7 different main games across 5 different platforms that have 10 million plus sales, not including the repackaged Super Mario Allstars for the SNES which contained every NES SMB game, including the Lost Levels, and also sold over 10 million. (As a side note, SMRPG only sold about 2 million, which is surprising because IMO it's the best of the lot).

[ryanvergel]

Yoshi's Island is actually my favorite mario game! It's in my top 3 for favorite console games. It was so much fun as a kid, there was a HUGE amount of replay value (with any Mario game of course). I really want to play it now =X

[dark_pokemon]

i hope there isn't a fifth generation!!! even though i know there will be. i don't like 4th that much i like the first three they are all orginal but 4th i thought was just lame..........

[Jacobus]

Yes and Yes, there has to be a fifth generation and it will be awesome like the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th. Pokemon won't stop and it's one of the things that make it good.

[dark_pokemon]

Originally Posted by Jacobus

Yes and Yes, there has to be a fifth generation and it will be awesome like the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th.

4th wasn't awsome....

[CyberManectric]

If there was a 5th gen they would certainly try something far fetched again. I remember 3rd gen came out and it was like "pokemon that control the weather." I thought that was kinda cool, but when the 4th gen came out with "Pokemon that created the world, emotions, and control time and space" I thought that was kind of overdoing it. I hope in the 5th gen they'll go back to basics like in the 1st and 2nd generations. We don't need 10+ legendaries in the next generation like we got when DP were introduced.

One thing I'd like to see is a Hybrid Pokemon. Unlike Mewtwo which was a clone of Mew. I mean like a Pokemon that was created from human genes. That'd be something awesome. Plus more dual type combos like Dark-Psychic, Fire-Water, or maybe even Dark-Steel. I dare Gamefreak to use those combos when creating new pokemonl.
~Cyber~

[Tagrineth]

Originally Posted by dark_pokemon

i hope there isn't a fifth generation!!! even though i know there will be. i don't like 4th that much i like the first three they are all orginal but 4th i thought was just lame..........

3rd gen actually was kinda meh. 4th was excellent, possibly the best one yet.

[Reader1237]

It's impossible to even guess what they will think of next.
I mean after 3rd generation I thought that there was nothing left for them to do but they figured it out and I bet they will figure it out again

I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Professor_Chris]

Originally Posted by CyberManetric EX

One thing I'd like to see is a Hybrid Pokemon. Unlike Mewtwo which was a clone of Mew. I mean like a Pokemon that was created from human genes.

Do not want.

Originally Posted by CyberManetric EX

That'd be something awesome. Plus more dual type combos like Dark-Psychic, Fire-Water, or maybe even Dark-Steel. I dare Gamefreak to use those combos when creating new pokemonl.
~Cyber~

I agree that there are plenty of combinations that have been neglected. Fire/Dragon is one of the more obvious ones.

[Echnalaid]

I'd like to see pure flying legendaries.

[DukeFireBird]

Unfortunatelly, pure flying types will not work, because of Roost. Roost removes the flying subtype of the Pokemon that uses it, thats why after a roost, a bird can get hit with EQ.

5th gen would be awesome imo, but go back to basics, only like 5 legends, and create a good storyline.

Jade/Amethyst/Turquoise???

[Absoltrainer]

I want to see Team Rocket Return as the bad guy....they wanted to TAKE OVER THE WORLD...


Team Magma and Aqua wanted to reshape is for mor water? More land? "for the betterment of human kind" I beleive both Archie and Maxie (whatever his name is) said.

Team Galactic was defiently evil....Cyrus was on the edge of insanity in Platium...Actually a rivarly between Galactic and Rocket would be cool.

[Pyro Entite]

Well i'm sure that there will be a 5th gen because they have 3 pokemon shaped key chains with a shadow of a unknowen pokemon on them and they were a limited sale I beleave but there were three of them. So when they come out I don't know but I thank that there doing the same thing like they have done with togapi and munchlax.

[z-man]

Originally Posted by DukeFireBird

5th gen would be awesome imo, but go back to basics, only like 5 legends, and create a good storyline.

If only. Describe a "good storyline" please. Like Final-fantasy type story? I doubt a storyline in a main-stream pokemon game will be anything more than what we've seen before.

Few legends would be nice. I'd also like to see more userfriendly IV/EV mechanics. I.e. showing hints on current EVs and a bigger hint on ALL IVs.

As for the 5th gen pokemon. We need a camel and a llama. That's all I need to be happy

[ashinto]

we already have a camel pokemon (nuMEL, CAMerupt...), and i would like it to be like the GSC games w/ a ton of pokemon, two regions, but more storyline.

[Kabutops141]

I loved them all, and am sure I'll love the 5th.

[z-man]

^^Oh I get it! I never thought of that... I'd love to see something like Team Galactic Vs Team Rocket. This would make it easy for them to include 4th and 1st generation maps, and what-not. They could be battling for control of the 5th gen region

[Jran Sakarra]

I believe after the Heart Gold and Soul Silver remakes we will see the next gen starting to pop up like new Pokemon in *Insert Game/Movie here*.

[homeofmew]

Well- here's how it has always been, every 2 years ago, they release 3 new pokemon,or something like that, but with the release of platinum there wasn't any new pokemon, just new forms. If there isn't any new pokemon in the 13th pokemon movie we are probably going to have to wait a while for new pokemon.

[Chompy]

I would like to see some new type combos like Fire/Ghost, Electric/Dragon. As far as new starters go, they should have a Grass pokemon thats a Koala Bear as a grass pokemon, a Dolphin pokmon a water type, and a Tiger Pokemon for a fire type.

[texaspokemontcg1998]

there will be a 5th gen im sure of it and it should be about arcuce or what his name was and about how he/she made pokemon.