>>27742209It was like Ruby/Sapphire and Diamond/Pearl. They're like lab rats to test if they could make good Pokemon games on a new console.
Of course, R/S and D/P got improvements like Emerald and Platinum, but Gamefreak straight out went to gen 7 and gave up on X/Y, didn't make an improved version (Z) and they remade the bad versions of the Hoenn games instead of remaking Emerald instead.
