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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Are Sony or MS capable of creating a cultural phenomenon like Pokemon Go?

 

Are they?

No, only Nintendo with Pokemon. 328 78.47%
 
Yes, Sony with __________. 61 14.59%
 
Yes, Microsoft with____________. 29 6.94%
 
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mountaindewslave on 14 July 2016
kyprime said:
Most people that are playing Pokemon Go are NOT pokemon fans, it's just a mobile game that is social, that it, it will be dead in a month, is Nintendo capable of creating a service like PS+ and make more money just with that than the whole of Sony? like they are doing more money with PS+ than the whole of Nintendo?

right, if all of the people playing Pokemon GO are casuals then explain why the Pokemon games are some of the best selling every gen and almost always seem to hit 10 million (even both versions of very similar games)?

Sony isn't doing more with PS+ than the whole of Nintendo, and you should watch your words before you further jinx Sony, their video game division is doing better but the company isn't out of debt and their other company sections haven't magically started to do amazingly 



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mountaindewslave on 14 July 2016
V-r0cK said:
I'm not going to say no because all things are possible, maybe not now but it's a matter of timing and marketing.

Pokemon's been out for 20yrs now and Pokemon Go was only possible by the growth in technology in the pass 2 decades to create a smart phone and data etc...

My bet, something like Microsoft's Hololens using AR and Konami's Yugioh can beat Pokemon Go. Just image seeing people dualing at parks and such, to me that's something more incredible than Pokemon Go.

It may not happen soon, but when the time is right, just like how the time is right for Pokemon Go after 20yrs. Who knows what the future technology can hold for something else down the line.

no offense dude but Yugioh is not on anywhere near the scale of Pokemon. the Pokemon Company alone is a 1 billion dollar company just based on... Pokemon. Yugioh is dead besides the card game and even that is unlikely to be more popular than even the Pokemon card game at this point



mountaindewslave on 14 July 2016
potato_hamster said:

Lol. Just by reading the title I knew this was made by a Nintendo fan. Because you have to think Nintendo is head and shoulders above MS and Sony as a company that is capable of making hit video games, or creating games, game series or game characters that have the same impact that Nintendo characters have. Which is of course, total horseshit.

How about this poll: Are Sony and MS capable of making a home console that sells as poorly as the Wii U?

Quit with the flame bait.

too bad Nintendo's handheld console is destrying the Xboxone in sales despite being a year older. the Wii U is selling poorly but its a terribly conceived system and Nintendo is spread over two consoles currently.

frankly the Xone is selling quite poorly considering the muscle behind it, one of the biggest companies in the world. Microsoft also generally has LOST money from the Xbox brand and their video game division. just saying



IkePoR on 14 July 2016
Hiku said:
Dead or Alive Extreme 3 Nude VR Mode.

Just saying.

In the US' SJW societiy? It would create huge buzz but wouldn't last a day.  The console games can't even make it over there.



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Soundwave on 14 July 2016

Maybe ... but probably not.

Say what you want about Nintendo, but they simply have a knack for creating cultural phenomenons.

The first Donkey Kong in arcades, the NES, Super Mario Bros. was huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge, Pokemon, Wii/Wii Sports/Fit, Brain Training, now Pokemon Go.



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mountaindewslave on 14 July 2016
setsunatenshi said:
the answer is probably not in the same way, though i can't begin to grasp what the hell is so enticing about pokemon itself. i absolutely despise that entire franchise (games and anime), but i guess there's a huge crowd that feels differently. more power to them, hope they keep enjoying

its hardly complicated why people like Pokemon, its a game about capturing wild animals that have special abilities and are cute and cool looking, battling with other people, fighting in tournaments. I think you're deliberately pretending to not understand why people like it rather than exploring why YOU don't like it



Barkley on 14 July 2016

If Zynga, Rovio and King can do it then I'm sure Sony or Microsoft could.

Do they have any current IP's that lend themselves as well to becoming a cultural phenomenon on mobile like Nintendo do? No, but that's not what the thread title is asking.



GOWTLOZ on 14 July 2016
mountaindewslave said:
Acevil said:

Yes, they are. In fact sony was great at doing similar things back in the Sony Playstation, less now a days (Not leveraging nostalgia, but creating cultural moments). Microsoft has strong brand called Minecraft that they can leverage to do similar thing if they wanted, the problem is, Microsoft like Mojang, are being lazy with the brand. (No Mod API)

Minecraft is popular but not on a cultural level really. People like playing the game but they're not going to cons constantly cosplaying as them and you're not seeing a kajillion shirts and toys everywhere the same way as you see with Pokemon

Sony and Microsoft lack powerful IPs that the public is strongly connected to. They have nothing on the level Mario, Pokemon, Zelda

Gran Turismo, Halo and Uncharted are as big or bigger than Zelda. But Sony and MS have nothing like Mario and Pokemon, every gamer and non gamer knows about them. They are cultural icons, Pokemon mainly due to the popularity of the anime and games and Mario by its first few games that at the time were revolutionary.

Sony and MS haven't been long enough in this industry to do that, they don't have that many people who played their games from childhood, and Sony keeps bringing new IP's over making games in the same IP for decades with only few exceptions, and their biggest IP has cars made by other companies.



IkePoR on 14 July 2016
Jranation said:
"If you can't beat them, join them"
Sony is already ahead of Microsoft!

Only $99.95!



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Frogger on 14 July 2016

Not Sony, but MS has Minecraft.