Why does pokemon release 2 games

January 20, South Korea. March 20, North America. Beta November 20, The Philippines. Android Beta March 1, Canada. Full Release September 22, Worldwide. October 18, Japan. Adventure in the Maze! December 4, Japan. September 17, Japan. September 24, North America. Please discuss whether or not to move it on its talk page.

Cyclone 2. November 22, Japan. Pikachu Talk. TBC Worldwide. Super Smash Bros. December 7, Worldwide. Nintendo Anime Channel. User Info: Gencoil. User Info: SlimeStack. You're supposed to buy a different version to your friends then you trade and battle with each other. You were never expected to buy both versions, and I don't know why anyone would think you were supposed to. User Info: koeke I think they made it like that, so there are version exclusives that make it so people actually search out others to trade their exclusives with.

User Info: Slayn. SlimeStack posted You're making an assumption that people who play these games have friends and lives. Nintendo is banking on the fact you can barely go outside, let alone trade Pokemon with friends. That is why they sell so many copies.

User Info: VoidBeyond. They aren't that different from each other, no. But lately they have been getting more and more separate, still not much but another gamefaqs user suggested something really neat.

Like each was a different part of the region and you needed to complete the game to unlock that part of the region. From: SlimeStack You're supposed to buy a different version to your friends then you trade and battle with each other.

User Info: Hejiru. As far as Game Freak is concerned, you're not supposed to buy both versions. This started back in the days when the Game Boy link cable was a new thing. They want you to trade with other people, hence why starters are unavailable in the wild and there's version exclusives.

The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense. User Info: AeonThePhoenix. Why do they come in pairs? About The Author. Arthur S. Poe Arthur S.

Poe has been fascinated by fiction ever since he saw Digimon and read Harry Potter as a child. Since then, he has seen several thousand movies and anime, read several hundred books comics, and played several hundred games of all genres. He has been featured on sites such as IMDb and has been writing on all things related to fiction for several years now.

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