| IcaroRibeiro said: 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 |
- So still in top 10 after 6 months even after selling 16m in two months? I'd say that's very good especially as a game like BOTW hasn't been in the top 10 for ages and is heading to 20m.
- Like the other guy you keep jumping to this separate game argument it's not a Remake we're talking of here it's adding in other regions to extend Sw/Sh's adventure into them.
- You're the one bringing up prestige in sales mate and tbh your opinion on Sw/Sh means very little because you know what says they were must buys for people? 16m in two months and being in the top 10 for 6 months by your own admission which means at this point it's likely already the third best selling game in the series which contradicts everything you just posted in the last part your view is not public perception in fact your view is the minority something many forum goers need to learn, the people who have nostalgia aren't the majority of fans you've been long replaced by new younger fans.
