Has Pokemon surpassed Mario?

[Lonely_Dolphin]

BraLoD said:

That goes against the core purpose of Pokémon, that's sharing/interacting with others.

Mobile platforms are the ideal envyronment for Pokémon, and when it'll succeed.

Even as the internet has made this possible without the need of being on a mobile platform, it still just is not the same thing, Pokémon had games on consoles and they proved to be far less appealing, at the very last, it would need a major internet enryronment, like the PC or being a mutiplatform game, as a Nintendo console exclusive it will be hardly making anything remotely comparable with what it does being a game on mobile platforms.

 

That purpose is actually better served by the internet where you always have access to other players. Consoles have internet now, so that's no longer a reason against console Pokemon. Plus they could have always put more emphasis on the singleplayer, like actually making it good.

It can also succeed on console. I'd say it's already been successful on consoles and that's without any major games.

Pokemon only had cheap spin-offs on consoles most of which just act as companions to the mainseries games and are near worthless without them. There have been no major or more mainline entrys on consoles yet.

But the main thing here is because NX will have a unified library, we should finally be seeing a full fledged Pokemon game on console by default.