When asked if the main Pokémon games would ever see a migration from handheld systems to home consoles, Masuda had the following to say:
“When coming up with the idea of Pokémon, what we really wanted to create was something where people could get together and have fun trading, battling, showing off their Pokémon collection, and just talking about their own adventures with the game. Handheld consoles and devices offer us the best way to achieve this vision.”
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