| Megiddo said: Nobody is going to put down $350 to play the same thing they can on their phone plus a bit of story. That's a stretch. Like Labo, the only thing this "casual" product will do is sell to die-hard Nintendo enthusiasts. It's easy money for Nintendo of course, especially with that Pokeball accessory. |
There is literally two things that come from Pokemon Go in this game. One is the new catching and the second thing is the ability to transfer Pokemon from Go to Let's Go. The Let's Go game has an over world, much like a traditional Pokemon game. It has a battle system like a traditional Pokemon game. In fact, outside of the transfer system and catching mechanic it is a remake of a core Pokemon game (right down to how local trading works, local battling in game NPCs and trainers, etc). Your narrative that this is just Pokemon Go with some story is just blatantly false, and just watching the trailer and comparing it to the previous games and Pokemon Go should give that away.
Also, Labo is a toy/game for a very specific audience (and the mere term "casual" does not describe this product, as "casual" could mean many things; in the case of Labo it was aimed mostly at children), this is a remake of a game that has a lot of nostalgia behind it (not to mention it comes with one of the biggest multimedia and video game franchises in the world that has spanned multiple generations of gaming) that offers something to older lapsed gamers of series (the original Pokemon, Kanto, simplicity; not to mention this group of older gamers are a pretty sizeable portion of the Switch's installbase), kids (a good introduction to the series), and even fans (a spin-off to hold them over until the main series arrives in 2019).
