quickrick said:
Funny thing i'm mostly always right. mainline pokemon didn't propel 3ds into new heights, i'm not sure why a spin off is suppose to take switch into 20 millions sales. |
Technically, Ishihara of the Pokemon Company said Let’s Go is a mainline core RPG Pokemon title. You can watch the press conference, it’s right after the trailer where he said it. It’s not the mainline title hardcore fans are looking for (that will be in 2019), but it’s considered a mainline title.
Regardless, it’s Pokemon on Switch. An HD RPG. Its apparently catering to casuals, those who haven’t played Pokémon since the late 90s or early 2000s, those who are Go players (and there are still a pretty good amount of them), or those who have never played Pokémon before. Your personal impressions don’t seem to matter at the moment since it’s creating buzz all around and there’s a good amount of positive along with negative. And even then, we’ve had similar reactions before, even worse with US/UM when they were teased at last years Pokemon direct. Now, even if it may not mean much at the moment, both versions are number 1 and 2 in the Amazon charts.
And it’s not just Pokemon that is supposed to carry Switch. It’s Smash, it’s Fire Emblem, it’s Yoshi, it’s a variety of games they have planned (we’ll see how it goes at E3). They said they want to ship 20 million by the end of March 2019 so apparently they have something up their sleeve along with Smash and Pokemon. They have been lowballing expectations before and the ones that did fall below expectations were the early days of the Wii U/3DS, when they suffered their first losses in decades.
