Has Pokemon surpassed Mario?

[Lonely_Dolphin]

BraLoD said:

Internet can serve its purporse if it's on a really big scale, Pokémon is about having your friends play with you, being on cheaper and popular devices (Nintendo handhelds) was also a good help, but if it's locked to a Nintendo console, it'll hardly be worth of Nintendo pushing it, even more now as smartphones proved to be the ideal envyronment, as it has all, internet and personal interaction, plus being on the everyday device people always hold.

There is a reason why Nintendo hasn't pulled a "mainline" Pokémon game on their consoles, because they know it doesn't suit Pokémon exactly as it should, though it could work if it had a way bigger audience to serve to, doing as I said, being multiplatform or a PC game. Locking a new gen Pokémon game to a Nintendo home console would not be the way to go, and Nintendo sure does know this.

 

Am I doing it wrong then? I don't have any friends who play Pokemon, #foreveralone. Also you're basically saying every game ever should be on mobile, a.k.a. the death of quality gaming. It also sounds like you're saying Pokemon's appeal is based not on the game's themselves but the price and installbase of the system it's on which is kinda silly. Pokemon is big because it's Pokemon, people buy hardware to play it, so consoles would definitely be more successful if they had actual Pokemon games on them. I never said anything about locking Pokemon to console, only the opposite, as the NX's unified library means it'd be on both console and handheld instead of locked only to handheld. Unless you believe Pokemon wont get a major game on NX, then a 9th gen console installment is inevitable.