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Luke888 on 31 January 2016
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Illusion said:
mZuzek said:
                                       

To answer basically this entire post:

Ash sucks. The Pokémon anime sucks.
Red rocks. The Pokémon games rock.

Edit: and yes, Ash and Red are two different characters. There's no licensing issue here.

So, would you just have Nintendo and the Pokemon Co. ignore the huge cash-cow that is the anime?

You have to admit that if you polled the average North American, 10 times as many people would recognize the name Ash Ketchum as would recognize Red.

First of all to answer your question no, Red and Ash can't be classified as the same character, they own different Pokémon, they have different personalities and even different appearance.

Then such a thing as a game based off the anime already happened in the original Pokémon Yellow, but, due to technical restrictions for the time, they only managed to add Pikachu following the player and a couple more details. Currently the biggest problem for Pokémon games is that their install base is constantly growing, meaning that less and less younger people are buying their games, so I don't think that a game based on an almost 20 year old anime series would solve the problem...