the_dengle said:
Nintendo's experiments in DLC so far have been a mixed bag, as one of Rol's most recent threads pointed out. But people around here are basically saying, "that's not bad enough, I want to be used more." It's scary how often people ask why Nintendo doesn't just make a full NFC Pokemon game. They don't seem to consider the consequence of what they're saying: That Nintendo would be selling 720+ unique figurines for a single game. If the figurines are of remotely decent quality, they'll cost a few dollars apiece at the very least. Meaning the full price of this game would be in the thousands of dollars. "That's not a problem," too many people say, "they should only make figurines of the first 151 Pokemon and ignore the other eight bajillion that I don't care about and wouldn't buy anyway because I'm a genwunner." So, 151 figurines, for how much? $5 apiece? (That's less than Skylanders or Disney Infinity figurines, I believe). So that's only $755 for the whole game, that's completely reasonable. |
Or they could make it so you buy a game (say, 50$) that is fully playable and fun and whatnot
If you like said game, you can buy a few extra Figurine exclusive characters (say a legendary or two and maybe lucario or something). Additionally, if they wanted to start with the original 151 included in game, they could make additional pokemon sets available as 10$ figures (say buy a starter figure and get around 50 of the gen two pokemon and an exclusive gym battle and dungeon)
Theres a lot of ways Nintendo could make an awesome NFC pokemon game that wouldn't be a horrible money grabbing attempt...also, its not like you have to buy every figurine in the game. For the average person, the game would cost 50-80$ using the above model and they would get the original 151, around 100 extra pokemon and a figurine exclusive...
