| spemanig said: I'm not sure they'd need to continue annualizing if they did this. Instead, they could focus on a console-like release system where they take more time between releases. I don't care about their workload. I care about their product. I don't think they'd be posting that loss if the Wii U launched with a massive console Pokemon RPG. Quite the opposite. |
| spemanig said: Noone asking for a console Pokemon RPG wants that. They want a massive open world RPG. It would require bumping down to 3DS, not bumping up to HD. |
How can I put this? The game you imagine and Game Freak's current strategy are not mutually exclusive. You are making multiple separate requests, not one singular request.
I'll try to explain better. The series already doesn't have to be annualized. Game Freak is already free to take more time between releases. They choose not to. They choose to annualize. So, you are asking them to make a full-fledged home console version that is completely unique from its handheld brother, AND to abandon their current strategy of yearly releases. Two separate requests. I point this out because there is absolutely no guarantee that fulfilling one of your requests would lead to the other being met as well. Far from it, they show no signs of abandoning their plan to milk each generation for all it's worth. Besides that, the enormous increase in development costs to make the game you describe coupled with less frequent releases is a bad combination for profits.
Likewise, a "massive open world" Pokemon RPG is more than possible on 3DS. All Game Freak would have to do is design a game with no artificial barriers between the cities, allowing the player to collect the badges in whatever order they please. Boom, massive and open. They could do this now but they choose not to. There is no guarantee that they would change their stance on this choice if they were persuaded to make a home console version, or to cease the annualization of the franchise, or both.
You have a very, very specific idea of how the Pokemon series should be handled, and while we agree on some matters I find your attitude distressingly confrontational.
