NateH said:
lol, what are you talking about? Japan was the only country this series was ever popular, it never had a significant following in the Occident. If it even gets released in the West, it's not going to be flying off the shelves because of thousands of disgruntled Pokémon fans running to buy it. That logic is so frankly stupid, 'console war'-tier garbage that people will buy one if they're unhappy with the other, as opposed to just buying neither. Also, your assertion that the normal Pokémon-buying public at large is angry at the shrunken Pokédex but totally cool with Yo-kai Watch 4 having only 109 yōkai in the game out of like 700 or whatever is weird too. |
I probably have a different idea of the game finding its sales in the west compared to you. I'm not saying that it's going to steal 5m+ from Sw|sh and give Pokemon a run for its money but rather, sell 1m+ outside of Japan with no effect on Pokemon's sales and keep the series alive if it's marketed decently and not sent out to die. The original sold 1m+ in the west with some advertising, an install base that wasn't dead for anything that wasn't Pokemon just yet and none of the hype the series enjoyed in Japan, so it is possible. Yo-Kai Watch 4 also seems like an easier sell compared to the 3DS games outside of Japan, which is why I'm optimistic.
As for Pokedex anger, I actually don't even see it as a huge factor; just another possibility in a list of possibilities as to how YW4 can find some success. I don't think millions of people will flock to buy Yo-Kai Watch 4 because of the Pokedex uproar but I do think that for a small amount of those fans, the Pokedex was a big thing that kept them from seeing some of the faults that mainline Pokemon games had and, as a result, may look at something like Yo-Kai Watch 4 with more objectivity. I don't see it as 'Pokemon vs. Yo-Kai Watch' but rather an event that could give Yo-Kai Watch 4 some free advertising to a couple of thousand people.
