It's been just under three years since the fifth generation was announced, so it seems like it could be a little... early, to be announcing a new generation of pokemon. That said, if they're not doing remakes of Ruby and Sapphire then this might be about right, timewise. Puts them a whole game ahead of schedule.
I'd always figured they probably would remake RS, simply for the reason that the original cartridges' batteries will run out after a given length of time, so they'd need to bring them onto the DS cards in order to keep the games alive. That said, they'd need to do that for FRLG, too, and 3DS has DLC support, doesn't it? So they might bypass the remaking bit, port them into the 3DS arcade, and move straight onto generation six.
Ah - speculation! I couldn't have known, fifteen years ago, that I would still be doing this as a full-grown adult. I just really, really hoped.
Actually, I do remember finding out that a Pokemon Gold and a Pokemon Silver were in development. The mind boggled! I ended up with this poster, from inside a games magazine (Ha! Games magazines! Remember them!?) which listed all the new pokemon, with their names and numbers, a full few months before the games were released. That was interminable, I think the shipments were delayed due to flooding or something, and as much as I hated that, it meant I knew all the pokemon inside out by the time the games were released. Some people got them early. Remember seeing people playing them in Japanese, first, but even I thought that was stupid - exciting bit was when a couple of people, just one or two, turned up with copies from the USA, fully translated, ready to rock. I had never wanted a Christmas present more in my life. Still haven't!
Bloody got it and all. Never asked how it happened, just knew I loved my parents. Or Santa. Or oh, who cares, I've got a Totodile!! And here I am now, in my twenties, having just defeated gym leaders from five different regions in the tournaments at Driftveil City, once again wondering what the next set of pokemon's gonna bring. Mad! If I could see me now.
God. I'm going to be a terrible grandparent, aren't I? The kind who yabbers constantly at poor Hector and Phyllis about the good ol' days. I'm already half way there.
Or, no, worse. I'm going to be that wizened old bastard with the Weedle in Viridian City.
"FIRST, YOU NEED A POKÉBALL..."