Pokemon GO has earned $1.2 billion, 752 million downloads

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naruball said:

Kai_Mao said:

Except they are making a new core RPG Pokémon game for the Switch which will definitely use more resources for HD development. And why spend $300-400 million for an HD project? I don't think it's necessary to spend THAT much. GTA V was about $250 million.

And its their choice to continue the mainline games on handhelds. They probably feel that they can get the best out of Pokémon (interactivity for both offline and online, meeting people, battling, trading, training, etc.) through handhelds because you can take them on the go. You see the commercials. They emphasized what makes Pokémon what it is.

Never said they weren't. Their core RPG's (imo) are the same unmbitious stuff we've see for decades. If you're happy with that, great. I'm not.

Why spend so much? To make something remarkable. Something that will make people fall in love with it instead of satisfying the same customers. Pokemon could finally look great, the pokeomon could finally move and hit each other like in the anime. But that costs money and time and they have no reason to spend either when they are already so successful. Great for them, not enough for me.

Your not a pokemon fan? What pokemon games you played?