Pokemon on 3DS.

Pokemon already has a presence on 3DS,the Pokedex 3D app,Rumble Blast,Dream Radar,and the new Mystery Dungeon game.Excluding Rumble Blast,all of these use the Pokedex 3D character models and with the pattern,people expect the next main installments of Pokemon to have 3D animations.

But Pokemon is in a specific situation.On the DS,many RPGs moved from sprites to using character models,Golden Sun,Final Fantasy,and Dragon Quest are pretty good examples.
Etrian Odyssey and the Shin Megami Tensei use 3D graphics but the enemies tend to be sprites,but Etrian Odyssey 4 had 3D monsters now and Shin Megami Tensei 4 looks like it will even have a 3D overworld.

Now what should Pokemon do?The spin offs have no problem,but the main series just made a big leap with their battle animations.Moving Pokemon sprites while battling were kind of a big deal,and I'm sure Game Freak still wants to get some use out of them,so I'm not so sure.The series tends to be pretty conservative in general,so this isn't easy to predict.
Games like Code of Princess still use sprites and people didn't have a problem with that.

Surely Pokemon can do the same.But Pokemon could also use the Pokedex 3D models,they could probably get the job done considering Pokemon stay in their own field during battles.The more I think about it,the more I think that Pokemon WILL use the 3D models,you can't really have the main series STIIL use sprites when the spin offs use 3D models.

In fact,I bet the World Tournament in Black/White 2 was a farewell to all the Gym Leaders and Champion in their sprite glory.So with those arguments in mind,it's very likely that Pokemon will leap into 3D.

Worst case scenario,memory becomes an issue,649 Models at least,the overworld,and music might prove to be too ambitious for the 3DS,and will be forced to use sprites.I think that 3D models take up more space than 2D sprites but I'm not really sure.




 Kind of a pointless post,but this was bugging me for a while now,but I think I found the answer while writing this,so everything worked out in the end.
Whatever Game Freak decides to do,I'm still going to buy the 6th generation of games and they're still going to make millions regardless of the visuals,but it was something that needed to be addressed.