We’ve got two official Pokemon games on the App Store now, in the shape of the impressive Pokemon GO and the TBD Pokemon Duel. And that sort of got me thinking, because those two games pose an important question.

Namely, will we ever see a real Pokemon game on mobile? And when I say a real Pokemon game, I mean a Pokemon game that’s an RPG, with all the trappings we’ve come to expect from the monster catching series.

And this in turn raised other questions. Which I decided to put in list form and try and answer for you. Because I’m good like that. You’re welcome. Enjoy the rest of your Monday y’hear.

iPhones aren’t powerful enough

Well, that’s just silly. Of course they are. If anything the recent iOS devices are more powerful than the 3DS. And they’re definitely powerful enough to run the earlier games. I mean, some of them ran on Gameboy. Your toaster probably has more processing power than a Gameboy.

The controls won’t work

Poppycock. If we’ve seen anything from the raft of ports onto the App Store, it’s that RPGs are probably the easiest to chuck over. Especially simple RPGs like the earlier Pokemon games. You’re picking things from lists, moving around simple maps. It’s not exactly Tomb Raider 2, now is it?

There’s no money in it

Okay, interesting one. But look at it this way. There’s no money in the old Pokemon games right now. If you’re buying one, you’re buying it second hand. And that means that the cash doesn’t go to anyone but the person you’re buying it off.

And the Final Fantasy remakes have done pretty well. They’re expensive, but they’re massive, and Square Enix keeps churning them out.

It strikes me that there’ll be more money in doing it than in not doing it. And since Pokemon GO has been so successful, it’s highly likely there’s going to be an audience for the older games if they do arrive.

You can already play them on emulators

Yes, that’s true. But please check the previous entry. And also, not everyone knows how to use emulators. They’re pretty specialist bits of kit that require quite a lot of digging around. And possibly a good deal of illegality.

If games are easy to get legally, from a store we’re all familiar with, then people are far more likely to pick them up and give them a go.