If you take a look at this Siliconera post you'll see a few screenshots from various sources that would generally hint towards a Ruby and Sapphire remake. However, if you would just pay attention to...just about anything and use your own common sense, you would already know that these things are things that are going to happen. It's not even called pattern recognition, noting that the first and second gens have seen remakes, or anything like that. It is, quite literally, just common sense, because all it does is make sense for Nintendo to go this route. Because it makes money, and what Nintendo really needs to do is bolster their Wii U division while they get the games on it, and the way they do that is by making a ton of money in the handheld division.
The biggest arguments against Nintendo making Ruby and Sapphire remakes basically come from people who refuse to believe Nintendo wants to do it because....reasons, I suppose. When you point out that Red and Blue (Green) were remade, they say "Well yeah, they were the first ones, it was a special thing", and when you point out that Gold and Silver were remade, they go "Well yeah, but that was because of the improvements made, and because they wanted to do the Pokewalker thing". When you say that that is just what Nintendo does, they go, "Oh yeah, because they're doing all the same things, right, and that's why we got Pokemon Grey?" To that point, all I have to say is thus:
Hey. You. Listen. We didn't get Pokemon Grey, true. We didn't get one bridging game with a few new features. We got two bridging games that follow the "Please buy both" philosophy with a few new features, further pointing in the direction of Nintendo wants your fucking money. "But Mogs, Black and White 2 were full-fledged sequels and it wasn't just like a potential Grey cas-" Hush. Black and White 2 were -far- less taxing than something like X and Y, a brand new iteration, and was probably only mildly more intensive than a theoretical 'Grey' so it existed somewhere in the grey space (heh) between a Grey and X/Y. In other words, it was not as dramatic a departure from the release formula as you might expect, and thus it doesn't disprove the potential of a Ruby/Sapphire remake release in the least.
It's not to say that I even -want- a Ruby/Sapphire remake, however, because I didn't even particularly care for Gen 3. I know I say a lot of negative stuff about Pokemon as a whole, which is why I'm going to try to reign it in here, but Gen 3 was, outside of the important changes to the battle system, the worst gen to date. Fresh off the amazing things that Gold and Silver did - the Poke'Gear, Radio stuff, introducing the Day/Night Cycle and letting you go back to the original region for a whole new Gym-crawl - Ruby/Sapphire basically only brought the Special Attack/Defense split and regressed beyond that, resulting in -massive- steps back. Sure, the region was alright. It looked nice for the time. And the new Pokemon were pretty cool. However, the mechanics, as stated, were abysmally behind-the-times they had instated themselves, and the story was -terrible-. I know, I know, we don't play Pokemon for the story, but that doesn't let it get a pass for being the most bullshit thing this side of Black/White's main storyline.
It's all a bit moot, however, since I will be first in line to buy a Ruby remake even though I've decried Gen 3 for as long as I've been playing Pokemon and Gen 3 was a thing. I will put down money for it, play it and probably bitch the whole time, but at least I realize that I am part of the problem. But I can't help it because the allure of Pokemon is something that no other company has fine-tuned just yet and until they have, I will probably keep getting drawn back in, over and over again, kicking and screaming the whole time. Who knows, one of these times, they might just implement the improvements to the formula that we all wa-
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that joke will never get old, unfortunately
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