Bevendre

schotalooisachickenlol replied to your post: I can’t help but wonder why Pokemon Go is…

but isn’t pokemon go specifically for mobile phones like the android and ios? although it’d be cool to see pokemon go on a nintendo, i don’t think it would make sense or if the 3ds is really capable of that power. plus it might ether overshadow or be overshadowed by pokemon sun and moon (a main series title) if pkmn go were to be on the 3ds

It actually wouldn’t be the first time that such a game was on a handheld console, and on mobile phones, just look at Invizimals from Sony, as they desperately want you to.  Nintendo has put out some other mobile titles before and there’s often an equivalent put out on the 3DS, though perhaps missing some more mobile-centric aspects.  As for the 3DS being capable of it, I don’t doubt it.  There was a Pokemon game that came out around the midpoint of the 5th gen that let you catch Pokemon through AR interaction much like Pokemon Go, and that was on the DSi.

The biggest concern would be it overshadowing or being overshadowed by Sun/Moon, but Nintendo’s already said that you would be able to transfer Pokemon from Red/Blue/Yellow to Sun/Moon through Pokemon bank, and I could easily see Pokemon Go implementing a similar system if it did get some form of release on 3DS.