| IcaroRibeiro said: Third versions sells 40%, sometimes even less, than the original version. It's almost the same game. That's why they are doing a DLC route instead, with half of the price of the original game and trying to make the current game alive, the third version also always ended completely killing the original version, that's how XY enjoyed much better legs than most of the mainline games. It's most like a third version replace some the sales of the original game with potential new buyers. A DLC won't do that A remake though can sell 80-90% of a main entry. Unless they sell a 4th gen DLC will be sold by a full 60 dollars price I don't see how beneficial it will be for Gamefreak give up a possible 20 million seller remake for a DLC that I doubt half of the owners of the original SwSh will pay for Just to ending my point, this Pokemon DLC was announced quite a while ago and I'm seeing a major buzz around it, not even close to that. Do you have any sources where I can check how much DLC of the games you're talking about sold compared to the original entry? |
Because you're looking at it from only one business perspective you're fixated on the full price part when ironically expansion DLCs have been common for decades to get the most out of one installment hence why season passes are so common today The Witcher 3 when B&W released along with a GOTY version that included it out grossed some of the biggest games in 2017 two years after it released (link below) which debunks your claim a DLC can't bring in new buyers as it made TW3 the second best selling PC title on Steam the is a business model of putting out one powerful central title that keeps selling due to increasing appeal through content.
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-witcher-3-outgrossed-some-of-2017s-biggest-games-because-its-just-that-good/
