Yahoo I totally buy in to this rumor! It would be such a Nintendo thing to do to leave the Wii with a Pokemon game like this. For one it will have a story line, and be just like gale of darkness, hopefully faster and better animated, and 2 it will have the Colosseum mode where hard core people learn all the zany tricks. This is not what every one wants so that's why this seems so spot on to me. Along with Black and White being this generations last bit of pokemon I can see this as the pokemon console swan song.
I honestly don't want a MMO RPG, just a very nice user friendly way to see people playing pokemon and attempt to join them in battles.
Does anyone remember the first japanese trailer of Battle Revolution? The graphics looked so nice and all the environmental affects were pretty cool. Game comes out and many of the pokemon look worse than N64, WHY IS THAT?!?!!?!?!?! Along with the majority of attacking animations and general animations looking so lame it was a major disappointment. I remember reading how the developers wanted to make the battles look as interesting as possible. The camera moves, they kind of make contact now, but still if they just didn't sit there like that it would be great. I know there are near 600 now, but if each one could have like 3 animated routines each instead of one that would be a nice step in the right direction. Not only that the battle sequences are waaaay too slow, speed up a pokemon using his attack and move on, thats what makes 3D battles somehow even more boring to watch then the 2D gameboy battles.