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Nuvendil on 16 May 2018
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Asriel said:
Nuvendil said:

It only makes sense if you assume that audience is even remotely interested in paying $360 to play a beefed up version of a modest pass time.  That most of them stopped playing over a year ago.  If they fully gut these games to water them down for the Go audience, they will be setting decades of history on fire for not much in guaranteed return.  A pointless gamble since a core Pokemon RPG would be guaranteed for 15mil sold.

Um. Nowhere did I suggest they'd gut the game or change it completely and nowhere is it suggested they're completely gutting the franchise to appeal to Go owners. From my perspective I mainly meant the shift in branding to "Let's Go!". And, like I said, to attract several million new customers, you don't really need to have a high success rate. Up to 1% would mean several million new consumers and anything above that would be very impressive.

Whether this is a 'core game' or not has me leaning towards core game - they could easily be using the 3DS game engine and assets upscaled to HD, with new animations, textures and lighting models. Sun/Moon actually looks quite good running in Citra, for example. Additionally, Game Freak have never developed anything other than the main-series RPGs when it comes to Pokemon games. If this was a spin-off, it wouldn't be coming from Game Freak and it wouldn't have Junichi Masuda in charge.

Ah, the branding.  I thought you meant gameplay changes.  

And there's a first time for everything mind.  And they could use Sun and Moon as a starting point graphically.  If that leaked screenshot is real though, they are reverting to grid based land.  That will be a MASSIVE step backwards, imo.  A big part of Sun and Moon's visual imrpovement was a move to more natural land forms.  Now I think the screenshot is fake but if they are going full on nostalgia bait, they may be *that* dense and revert to that.