| mZuzek said: The bold part seems to be always mentioned by people who say Pokémon is Nintendo's COD. This isn't a "now" thing, Pokémon was always an almost yearly release franchise. Anyways, the reason why it gets away with it is because of how fun and unique the games are. No matter how much you say the opposite, the truth is that there's nothing out there quite like Pokémon, and the Pokémon games just keep getting better and better with each new installment - something that can't be said about COD. Pokémon is a cash-in, obviously. But it's still made with enough care for it to deserve it's reputation. |
So it always being an almost yearly franchise makes the whole thing better?
bolded: That is not a fact, it's nothing but an opinion, the games get bigger and more bloated with every installment with the developers trying to cram more and more stuff in there. You cannot factually say that the games are getting better with every installment because of that, for me for example the games have long become way too big to even try and start one again.
The reason Pokemon gets away with it is actually that it played a huge role in the generation that now mainly populates the internet, millions of people grew up with it and actually played it for the larger part of their life. The CoD craze only really started in 2007 on the other hand and people were basically already sick with it in 2010 or so.
And Pokemon is a cash-in, period. The freaking studio that makes these games consists of 73 people, think about that, the studio that almost yearly churns out one of the biggest franchises on earth is only 73 people strong. If they really cared that much then they could easily higher some coders to maybe get the Pokemon games up to snuff from a technical standpoint, but they don't have to because people don't mind as long as it's Pokemon.
