| RolStoppable said: Why should I be concerned when anything that resembles mobile garbage has demonstrated that it has no staying power in the console realm? I have no idea what you are trying to get at in the middle portion. If Pokémon Go had used normal graphics instead of AR, people would have liked the game just as much. The hunting process is the big appeal of the game, not the animation. The mobs were running to the parks because the developers told people that a certain place is special; people weren't running there to experience AR. The appeal of the main series isn't animation either. |
I don't think it's coming into the realm, just eating up market share. Of the Big 3, Nintendo is best-positioned to weather this, because it's the least-focused on multiplat, mainstream games.
For a new market pioneer, those sales are impressive. They're not earth-shattering, like PS4/Switch, but they're impressive.
I see what you're saying here, but I know tons of traditionally non-gamers who were saying, "Look; it's right there!" "Normal graphics" would just be Pokemon...and that "main series" has come nowhere near sniffing the 650M downloads of Pokemon Go. Pokemon Red/Blue leads at a relatively modest ~31M sales. The target audiences were fundamentally different, hence the phenomenal success. I wonder what percentage of owners of Pokemon on consoles dowloaded Go; that would be interesting to know.
