Flying-Emu said:
1. A genocide against every race of Pokemon beyond 151.
2. Real-time combat.
3. A far darker storyline, possibly with the legendary Pokemon actually going out and destroying things, rather than sitting in a cave patiently waiting for a trainer to catch/kill them.
4. An MMO run by Nintendo with real-time combat and the ability to catch wild critters as Pokemon.
While I do agree that the number of species has been increasing at an out-of-control rate, I must say that if they have done that, much of the series sales would suffer a devastating, if not deadly blow that would destroy the chance for any one of your following improvements, because people have made new favorates from the newer generations.
I would actually pay good money to have a real-time combat pokemon game. They have actually proven the that it could be done in a SSB-like format. IMO that would be epic! Especially free-for-all battles!
Colosseum and XD have shown that the franchise is capable of having a dark story (human turning pokemon into heartless beings), and I think applying that to handheld games could give deeper level of playability to the series.
That could provide a level of challege to the series... Hell! it ould even improve it altogether! If it's an MMO there would be apotential to expand the game to beyond the "collect badeges/participate in contests/defeat the evil syndicate of the week" storylines. You could even make your OWN storyline! But for service like that, many, many serververs must be maintained in order to keep the game going, and doing that costs money. Therefore, Nintendo, Game Freak, Creatures and the Pokemon Company will probably have to charge a kind of monthly subscription fee.