If you read Serebii.com's thread when the game first came out in Japan, he posts about his progress on the game. I believe several times in there he mentioned it. Both him and someone else were posting what they were doing in the game. Check there, because that's where I thought I read it (beware though, it's a LONG thread).
I know it's a change from the previous games, but keep in mind that there's pretty limited activity between the DS and GBA games. It'd be a total pain in the ass to trade over each Pokemon you couldn't catch on those versions, especially when you can only trade a select few at a time. I think they did it on purpose.
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'Next-gen' is just a term made up by fanboys, to justify the ridiculous amount of money they are spending on a toy.
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