Bob, they already made a console version of Pokemon. Pokemon Colloseum and Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness, for the Gamecube (don't get the Wii's Battle Revolution, it has no story mode). They are, in my opinion, easily the best games in the entire series. They have a far deeper plot, and an entirely different focus than the GBA games. Only very particular Pokemon can be captured, and only one of each (a couple wild Pokemon are availible in XD, and you can trade with the GBA games from either GC game). There are no HMs or Gyms to worry about, instead, the progression is all tied directly do the story. The games are awesome, and I am really looking forward to another sequel.

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And I'll again pose the question: If Square Enix were to release two near-identical games - one of which had, say, half of the ultimate weapons, and the other which had the other half - would they or would they not be the biggest money grabbers the world has ever seen? And that's not even suggesting that Square Enix would require you to collect things from all the previous FF installments in order to get them on the latest game. For your argument's sake, we'll say trading is an option. But even then, it's still a joke and SE would be lambasted for such an idea.
I think making certain party members accessible along with weapons would be a better analogy, but that's just me. I'm also with Momiji on the lack of multiplayer (and strategy in it should it be included) would not make this as successful. There's also the issue of Square Enix not being known for making multiple cartridges for a game; Pokemon has only ever been released this way, and is massively popular for it. Pokemon was originally released in America at the perfect time, when Beanie Babies and such were in full swing and the freaking country was in a collecting mode.
The big problem that this has that even Pokemon doesn't is the plot connection. Each character in an FF game has storyline and dialogue connections. It would be two entirely seperate games.

A closer analogy would be like FFV or FFT, with different jobs for each game, rather than different characters.