>>28928628Even if that was the case (again, you can't be sure, and it's not really a great original idea no matter how much you might want it to be) it's just simply irrelevant to what we're talking about. Maybe it would have been relevant if there was a story behind it, but that's not the case. It's just a mechanic, that may or may not have been originated by the anime. Whether that's the case or not, doesn't matter.
>>28928728>Canon is loose as fuck in the Pokémon gamesYes, and? The anime and the games have always been separated. Even Yellow.
>Ash has been referenced as an ID for eventsNot part of the story, doesn't appear in the games, not a special form of its own. It's just a name in an event Pokémon. Do you also think there's a trainer named SPRING2011 in the games?
>we have gotten this on trainers such as the champions ingame and on real life and of course NWhat are you talking about? If you want to put it like that, Ash is Red's counterpart. They have become completely different characters, but that's besides the point.
>At this point you are trying way to hard to distance the games from the franchiseI'm not. Going by game content alone, except that one quote in ORAS and this new thing, they have always been separated. I'm not saying this can't change, but it would be dumb if they provided no explanation at all.
>while it is obvious it wasn't that way for the devs for a long timeBy "a long time" you mean today? Or two years ago, with a quote of which the meaning can still be a little vague?
>it all comes togetherI don't get why everyone got so autistic about one of the random sentences in a trailer, but ok, let's see where that goes. That is, if it was supposed to be anything other than "hey look this is cool be hyped plz".
>Also why do you want the games to be different from the Anime of the franchise? I haven't said I want them to be different. However, it's a fact that they have always been different so far.
