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Is Pokemon Nintendo's no. 1 now?

Yes 105 46.88%
 
No 95 42.41%
 
See Results 24 10.71%
 
Total:224

You know... I honestly don't know. I think it has to do with both trading and the ability to play it on the go. Which is cool for the handheld. But I don't see what that had anything to do with consoles. The main reason was most likely because since handhelds are where Nintendo dominates, that the Pokemon Co. kept them there in order to keep high sales figures.



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Wow, the poll sure is divided! It's 50/50!



AlfredoTurkey said:
Not on home consoles. Pokemon has always been king of handhelds though.

Except last generation where New Super Mario Bros sold over 10 million more than the best selling Pokemon game.



When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.

I don't think so because Mario is still the face of Nintendo.



Probably yes in pop culture. Regarding video games, no.



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BraLoD said:

That goes against the core purpose of Pokémon, that's sharing/interacting with others.

Mobile platforms are the ideal envyronment for Pokémon, and when it'll succeed.

Even as the internet has made this possible without the need of being on a mobile platform, it still just is not the same thing, Pokémon had games on consoles and they proved to be far less appealing, at the very last, it would need a major internet enryronment, like the PC or being a mutiplatform game, as a Nintendo console exclusive it will be hardly making anything remotely comparable with what it does being a game on mobile platforms.

 

That purpose is actually better served by the internet where you always have access to other players. Consoles have internet now, so that's no longer a reason against console Pokemon. Plus they could have always put more emphasis on the singleplayer, like actually making it good.

It can also succeed on console. I'd say it's already been successful on consoles and that's without any major games.

Pokemon only had cheap spin-offs on consoles most of which just act as companions to the mainseries games and are near worthless without them. There have been no major or more mainline entrys on consoles yet.

But the main thing here is because NX will have a unified library, we should finally be seeing a full fledged Pokemon game on console by default.



Well considering nintendo's stock has doubled over this one game, yes I think it has. Until it crashes anyway.



Made a bet with LipeJJ and HylianYoshi that the XB1 will reach 30 million before Wii U reaches 15 million. Loser has to get avatar picked by winner for 6 months (or if I lose, either 6 months avatar control for both Lipe and Hylian, or my patrick avatar comes back forever).

Ryng_Tolu said:

Pokémon is bigger than Mario since A LOT.

And is not even close.

 

In a near future i imagine those should be the bigger Nintendo series (in term of success, not overall sales):

1) Pokémon

2) Splatoon

3) Mario

4) Smash Bros

5) Animal Crossing

I can see a great future for Animal Crossing on mobile (for anyone with the heart of a child).
Creating, sharing, communicating, visiting friends villages, locating all the animals, buying & selling furniture and clothes.
...and more.

OT: Mario before Pokémon. Mario IS "video games" for most people even those who never play games.



Nope, Mario is and will always be king.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxHQsdSIHJY&list=PLB9OjZ1H0yUnDjZHwx2_ZMpb9pZrGlUAx



BraLoD said:

Internet can serve its purporse if it's on a really big scale, Pokémon is about having your friends play with you, being on cheaper and popular devices (Nintendo handhelds) was also a good help, but if it's locked to a Nintendo console, it'll hardly be worth of Nintendo pushing it, even more now as smartphones proved to be the ideal envyronment, as it has all, internet and personal interaction, plus being on the everyday device people always hold.

There is a reason why Nintendo hasn't pulled a "mainline" Pokémon game on their consoles, because they know it doesn't suit Pokémon exactly as it should, though it could work if it had a way bigger audience to serve to, doing as I said, being multiplatform or a PC game. Locking a new gen Pokémon game to a Nintendo home console would not be the way to go, and Nintendo sure does know this.

 

Am I doing it wrong then? I don't have any friends who play Pokemon, #foreveralone. Also you're basically saying every game ever should be on mobile, a.k.a. the death of quality gaming. It also sounds like you're saying Pokemon's appeal is based not on the game's themselves but the price and installbase of the system it's on which is kinda silly. Pokemon is big because it's Pokemon, people buy hardware to play it, so consoles would definitely be more successful if they had actual Pokemon games on them. I never said anything about locking Pokemon to console, only the opposite, as the NX's unified library means it'd be on both console and handheld instead of locked only to handheld. Unless you believe Pokemon wont get a major game on NX, then a 9th gen console installment is inevitable.