Veknoid_Outcast said:
How many children have $350 in disposable income? ;)
Seriously, though, it would be a huge hit with all age groups. Pokemon is an insanely popular brand. You only have to look at the fans on this site to see that adults love Pokemon too. |
I don't think it will, reason being It would not work with the traditional pokemon format (I.e the popular games on the handhelds). The whole point is you explore the in game-world fighting and catching the pokemon you want as opposed to exploring your local toys-R-Us and picking whatever pokemon you desire. It completely depletes the point of the games. It could maybe be used in an non traditional pokemon game but they are for the most part bad games and do not sell in huge quantities. I'm a pokemon fan but my fandom is limited to the RPGs and not teh franchise as a whole.
I would add that I think the concept of NFC is very limited in its appeal to adults. Unlike children who you can easily fool, we know they're essentially giving you an unfinished game and making you buy all the characters that should have been in it. Unless it was free to play, such a game would undoubtably be the biggest abuse of the modern DLC model imaginable.
Finally SKylanders is a big deal, but its not actually a humungous seller (its highest single platform sales is 2m), more or less in line with Nintendo's weak exclusives. Each game sells in total around 4m across all platforms which is still mighty successfull but the games real power is in its power to draw further revenue from the customer. So If a pokemon NFC was to work it would make tons of money for nintendo, not sure if it would have much effect on the hardware though.
