| Wyrdness said: - Why have new regions as DLC simple to increase the sales of the base game while selling a season pass as well as give the game even greater legs. - You're going on as if Pokemon games are expensive when they're not to begin with - Already answered. - Yeah sure don't have the same level of prestige yet Sw/Sh sold 16m and will hit 20m the end of this year a mile stone TW3 took 5 years to hit okay mate okay, Pokemon had MK level of stability long before Mario Kart even did that's how RGB and GS sold so well before they began doing yearly releases which is the whole point to begin with they have the option to change the structure. |
1) Not what I asked, I asked for a reason why a DLC for 4th gen will make more money than a new game. It won't, unless this DLC someway catapult SwSh sales for a stellar level (AKA making Pokemon SwSh be the best selling game on Switch by FAR). Daring prediction, there is a current DLC for Pokemon and the sales are only decreasing. In USA and European markets the game is already falling to the bottom of top 10 lists, and in others it isn't even in top 10 anymore
2) Pokemon games not being expensive are exactly the reason why release new games. In general, DLC are done because they are much less expensive than making a new game from scratch. A DLC who only adds a island or two makes sense because they are done pretty fast. A DLC for 4th gen remake however would take pretty much the same time of making a new game, and since a remake-game will just make more money than just a DLC-remake release this damn 4th gen as game
3) Prestige is not the same thing as popularity. Pokemon was much more famous and popular than The Witcher, that's why Pokemon always sells a humongous number of copies in the first month every time a new game came out. You can measure a classic more by its legs than by its short term sales. While Gen 1 and Gen 2 Pokemon were absolutely classics and must-buying, this generation 8 is not. Sure it's a huge, successful and popular game, but it's soon going to be replaced by another pokemon game. Not like Nintendo or Game Freak cares about that as long the brand can still making over 15 million copies for anything they release, but it's for sure set a roof in their potential and stability. And I'm not talking about quality, inovation, whatsover, just talking about public perception. Mario Kart 8 is literally a port and public still have choose it as their Switch party game, so let it be. I'm just not seeing any signs of Sword and Shield becoming a perennial seller, can I be wrong? 100% yes, but I don't think so
