KrspaceT said:
Hardcore isn't the only issue: you seem to be underestimating the connection people have with Pokemon as a species. The series has spent 20 years+ telling people to value each and every Pokemon, and that isn't just the popular ones. From memes about top percentage Ratattas to the odd cult following Stunfisk has, from the lewd lovers of human mons to the ones who always want a Dunsparce evolution the fandom takes on many forms for many mons, often absent of competitive value. There is also how Game Freak has handled the issues: Game Freak has approached the issue as being related to graphics, and that has drawn out an issue in the series that usually gets sidetracked. For more information look up the move double kick, or 'that tree'. Now I am not unaware that many moves, like Razor Leaf and Earth Power, are better looking, but because Game Freak brought up graphics that in turn led to people getting on them about graphics that usually don't. Also I just want to remind people that 'hardcore' aren't as much a minority as one might think. I mean hardcore were probably the ones who abstained hardest from Battlefront 2/V and quite possibly Fallout 76, and look how those turned out. I retain the '500,000 to a million' possibility from that, and then Nintendo going to Game Freak and going 'Fix your shite', or even just going 'oops, bad call on our end, let's change these things'. |
The is a problem with your argument here the same hardcores rallied against Let's Go and that still did 10m. Going by that I'd say your view here is more wishful thinking than anything.
