What I want is a Pokémon style game.

[Varkman]

Maybe I'm alone in this but for me Pokémon is a perfect portable game, you can pick it up for a few short minutes or you can play it for hours. The collectable element is addictive and the level grinding is rewarding (through evolutions etc). There have been numerous Pokémon clones over the years, I rather wish one would get made for the iPhone. Who's with me?

[Eli]

Nintendo owns the rights for Pokemon, the iPhone is pretty much in direct competition with the DS. I really don't see there ever being a Pokemon game on the iPhone, at least anytime soon. That would be like seeing a Super Mario game on the Sega Genesis in the 90's.

[don_k]

Originally Posted by Hodapp

That would be like seeing a Super Mario game on the Sega Genesis in the 90's.

Ironically, the opposite is happening now: Sonic on Nintendo consoles.

I love Nintendo and their games, but they're not the only ones with great games. Sega and SquareEnix can create great games too, but they've been very quiet on iPhone gaming. Maybe it's the japanese way of indirectly supporting japanese companies first (like how in the past they didn't make too many good games for Xbox to support PS2 first).

If Sega is that lazy, why don't they just release a Genesis emulator with micro-transaction thing to buy all their classic games?

And SquareEnix is definitely not in the business yet. Any of their DS games could work well (or even better) on the iPhone yet all we've seen is one huge orb button. Thanks SE!

[Ex-Creation]

if they ever did make pokemon for iphone/ipod touch i would pay no matter what.
it would be the most beautiful thing ever. (start with the bests like silver or yellow)

[iloverightangles111]

That aint gonna happen, nintendo has a copyright that only allows its games to be played on its consoles...and, people have tried to make pokemon clones, and they sucked.

If you really want one that badly, jailbreak your ipod and get it on an emulator.

[Varkman]

Originally Posted by Hodapp

Nintendo owns the rights for Pokemon, the iPhone is pretty much in direct competition with the DS. I really don't see there ever being a Pokemon game on the iPhone, at least anytime soon. That would be like seeing a Super Mario game on the Sega Genesis in the 90's.

Yeah I agree, I did say Pokémon clone though, something like a monster rancher or that kinda deal would be cool

[DarthPuma]

Buy a DS? I really don't understand wanting to play a crappy knock off of a good game when you can just go play the real thing.

[stargazer513]

a friend of mine plays gba emulator on his iphone and he has got pokemon on it. although i think its jb.

[PSMOkizzle]

It IS jb'd to have pokemon on an ipod. All we can do is qait, be sarcastic on forums, email them begging/ asking nicely, or petition for it

[gscal]

Pokemon would be really cool. The iPhone is in need of a really good RPG, and all the RPGs so far on the iDevice have either really bad gameplay, a really bad control scheme, or really bad graphics.