There'll be a release of Pokemon Crystal and Poke Transporter on the Nintendo Switch in July 2018. The only purpose this will serve is to bring Pokemon from Crystal to your 3DS games. Later, in February 2019 they'll release Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Gold, and Silver on the Nintendo Switch as well. And finally, once November 2019 rolls around, Generation 8 will be released, and Pokemon Bank will be put on the Switchin April of 2020. Not a leaker, just making educated predictions.
they'll release Crystal once they manage to emulate the mobile adapter properly so that Japan can get it
if it's on the Switch, then good, it'll match how you need at least a GBC to play Crystal
since the Switch will be region-free, you can just buy the better Japanese version
>>32709872
>emulate the mobile adapter
They could just get rid of the functionality entirely since it's not going to be used at all.
>>32709897
>since it's not going to be used at all
that's like saying that the Time Capsule was taken out because it won't be used
oh wait
>>32709911
I mean if it's going to give them trouble emulating it, they should just take it out.
>>32709925
maybe it doesn't give them trouble since they know how to do it but if they released Crystal now, no one would buy GS because you could go online in Crystal
I'm dumb so I'm confused as to why crystal isn't going to be sold as vc what features did the mobile thing even have? Is it that important? I mean didn't everyone else in the world get a crystal version without these features?
>>32710046
>what features did the mobile thing
online battles and trades
GTS
GS Ball
>>32710055
Oh shit well cant they just make a server for all those things? Well maybe not the gs ball, but like how they're making Mario kart for the switch online compatible despite being an old game
>>32710080
>cant they just make a server for all those things
that's what they did back then, they are prolly working on a new one as we speak
>>32709855
there will never be a mainline pokemon game on a home console