I will be extremely disappointed if its a Ruby/Sapphire remake. Stop the remakes with the Advance generation. I get and completely support Red/Blue/Green and Gold/Silver being remade because the GB/GBC pokemon games weren't as pretty as the GBA and DS pokemon games. The remakes however should stop there, lets be honest, Ruby and Sapphire look on par with Diamond/Pearl/Platinum. There's a little less polish, but all in all those 2 generations were quite similar graphic wise. So to me, if you were to remake Ruby and Sapphire, you might as well remake Diamond and Pearl and thats just ridiculous. Plus, Red and Blue/Green were remade for the GBA, if Ruby and Sapphire do get remakes, does that mean we should get ANOTHER remake of Red and Blue/Green?! A line needs to be drawn on remakes, and I draw the line at the GBA generation.
However, if Nintendo wanted to one day add GBA games to the VC to everybody, not just ambassadors, then I'd be all for Ruby/Sapphire getting released on the 3DS VC, they could probably even add some sort of feature to migrate pokemon from the VC games to future new Pokemon releases for the 3DS.
Having said all of that, I really hope its a new adventure. 6th generation? Not necessarily. If this is the rumored WiiU pokemon game, and its a full fledged 3-dimensional take on the handheld series I would love that. If its still sprite based but its some sort of MMO, I'd be all for that too. Or even better, if its 3-dimensional and an MMO, that would be amazing. If released for the Wii-U you could start in a new region, or a region we've been to before. And new regions could be added in the future via DLC/Expansion Packs. << This is what Game Freak should ultimately aim to do as it is. They could just keep adding new regions and pokemon without ever having to release a full fledged new game. And you could still keep the challenge by having some sort of rule in effect for when you enter a new region, pokemon you've already caught can't be used (until you get your 8 gym battles or what have you), kinda like what Ash would do in the series. (except he always kept Pikachu of course).
I think what would be really cool about this kind of game design especially if its an MMO is that you could have genuine Pokemon League championships, with only one final winner like in the anime again. They could hold one League Championship game a day or something like that, so each League championship can only have a single winner a day, making your win there all the more epic.
And then also they could limit the Legendaries, only have them appear very rarely so that not everyone can load up their team with legendaries.
So many possibilities if they ever went full 3-dimensional and MMO. I honestly think if done right it could do better than WOW ever did.
Of course if it isn't something so ambitious, then I would love to hear gen 6's announcement instead, but it would have to be for the 3DS.
The 3DS has two feature that could make all the difference: Updates and DLCs.
Imagine if you didn't need to buy remakes any futher than this generation.
Imagine having a DLC that brings all new pokémon, of the next gens to the the game, turning it never outdated.
Imagine having a simple update and bang, it is already fully compatible with the next gen hardware.
That's why I deffend that remakes should be done up to generation 5.
After that we'd only need DLCs and updates for current gens
This is a dream, but I'm afraid it never comes true;
Nintendo is too greedy for that.