The money they make is always from new fans. Which is why they went that path for multiple generations. I think this latest release caused a dip in profits, so only now are they like… “Let’s give them a bone.”
That was Legends: Arceus. But it still didn’t sell nearly as well as Sword+Shield or Scarlet+Violet did.
tbh the Pokemon Company could probably not change a thing and keep churning out the same slop for fifty more years and still be the largest franchise on the planet.
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They don’t even have to do anything new, they just have to look at Cassette Beasts to see how to pull off an open world Pokemon-like game.
Steam link for those interested: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1321440/Cassette_Beasts/
Now I know what my next steam game is going to be, thanks for that
And you’ll have a certain group of diehard fans who believe it “isn’t a real pokémon game” because of the changes lol.
Pokemon never catered to the die hards.
The money they make is always from new fans. Which is why they went that path for multiple generations. I think this latest release caused a dip in profits, so only now are they like… “Let’s give them a bone.”
I’m more pointing out how BotW and TotK, while widely praised, seemed to anger a small subset of Zelda fans.
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That was Legends: Arceus. But it still didn’t sell nearly as well as Sword+Shield or Scarlet+Violet did.
tbh the Pokemon Company could probably not change a thing and keep churning out the same slop for fifty more years and still be the largest franchise on the planet.
Black2/White2 used to be so missunderstood. People would absolutely kill each other for that right now