What 20 million sellers does the Switch have left?

[burninmylight]

Wyrdness said:

burninmylight said:

I highly doubt that The Pokemon Company would greenlight the idea of remaking an entire region in full HD 3D, only to sell it at the price of an expansion and miss out on the marketing opportunities you get with a brand new game.

The new areas and content that are coming to Sword and Shield are a fraction of what Gen IV offered.

Except DLC now days is fast becoming as good as a new game I can see them green lighting it because the lower expansion price is made up by the fact that as an expansion people have had to purchase the base game so they make up money that way as it pushes Sw/Sh sales up. Rather than have a new game they'd have one central game that is supported this gives the game more staying power they've already forgone a third version in favour of supporting the game so I don't see why not.

OK, then would you kindly list some examples of major retail/AAA games that released, and then later had DLC packs/extensions released that were just as large in size and content as the original game? The closest thing I can think of is Xenoblade 2's Torna: The Golden Country. It also released at 2/3rds the price. I haven't actually played XBC2 yet, and I don't know the full details behind Torna, but I do know that you can buy it completely independent of XBC2, even on cart.

With your idea, the Gen 4 remake would be needlessly locked behind an additional paywall in the form of a completely separate game. Not only would someone have to purchase Sword/Shield to get to the Sinnoh games, but if they purposefully avoided Sword/Shield because it just wasn't appealing, then guess what? They are SOL and now have to trudge through that game just to get to the one they want.

That is completely asinine.