>>26681626I think the PWT thing was just Game Freak not bothering to make new sprites. I also don't think Gen 5 is supposed to take place as far ahead as everyone seems to think. I've seen people claim that B/W is like, 5-10 years after Platinum, which is ridiculous, it's likely more 2-3.
So most of the PWT sprites are probably what the characters still look like. Liza/Tate, and a few of the other younger ones, should maybe have been aged up a bit, but ehh.
As for this;
>the massive differences in events and things that are playing out and an alternate universe/timeline being brought up by quite a few characters. Absolutely. I'm not trying to say that the alternate timelines thing is non-existant. It's basically proven in the games. Zinnia retardedly (but technically correctly) references R/S/E, as a Hoenn without Mega Evolution. The thing is, things are not nearly as different as you say. R/S/E and OR/AS still slot into the exact same place in the timeline. Just in OR/AS's universe, Mega's exist in the timeline. I think, until there are explicit changes to events listed, or future remakes make big changes, then there is no reason to exclude the other games. OR/AS and X/Y still fit into the established timeline.
So if you absolutely MUST make a specification between the different universes, then it would look more like this;
>Old Timeline:G1 = G3 -> G2 -> G4 -> BW -> B2W2
>Current Timeline:G1* = OR/AS -> G2* -> G4* -> BW* -> B2W2* = XY
*Mega and Fairy types exist, and any remakes will reflect that, but the games are effectively unchanged.
The timeline is unchanged, just soft-retconned to add Mega Pokemon in. There's tons of dialogue in X/Y about Plasma (due to the games being set while Plasma is still at large, which was confirmed by one of the developers in that now-deleted tweet) and various characters and events from across the franchise.
