Pokemon Direct announced for January 9th 2020

[Lonely_Dolphin]

Darwinianevolution said:

Barkley said:

Expansion pass is hundreds of times better than a third version. Thank goodness that stupidly archaic practice has seemingly finally stopped.

Mystery Dungeon remake is cool... except it looks terrible. The "looks like a 3ds game" thing is usually an exaggeration... but wow.

But really other than Diamond/Pearl remake this direct was the best I could expect it to be.

That's... debatable, actually. Someone can just wait for the third version and get the complete game for full price. If you want this, you need to pay full price plus 30$. This is not done to fix the multiple versions custom, otherwise there would not be Sword and Shield. This is done because is much cheaper and profitable.

You're totally right, it should not be assumed everyone buys the initial versions. However they atctually didn't go full greed on this. They could have added this content to the base game and sold it as Sword 2/Shield 2, $60 a pop rather than $30, but they didn't surprisingly.