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Pokemon Co. interested in remakes of classic Pokemon games
Coming from an IGN interview with series producer Junichi Masuda...
“I think the remakes, like Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen, is still an approach we’re interested in. With the Virtual Console releases of the original games, specifically there had never been a way to bring those Pokemon over to the latest generation. It had always been that you couldn’t get those Pokemon out.
With the 20th anniversary, it was the right timing to release the original games. I think that we really want to give people the experience of bringing these Pokemon from the original Game Boy and seeing what they look like in Pokemon Sun and Moon. That is something that I want people to enjoy.”
Masuda said that as of right now, there were no plans to redistribute Pokemon Gold/Silver as Nintendo did with the original Pokemon titles.