| burninmylight said:
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- MHW as it is itself lacks heavily from prior games in content and the expansion has comparable content in it to the base game so either way my examples answered your question opinions and personal views on such games are irrelevant.
- Why would they make an expansion? The same reason companies have been making expansions for decades to push and get the most out of a single title hardly rocket science. Don't worry about people needing to own the base game because 16m and counting already do.
- Pokemon runs on a circular business model, in the GBA era sales declined in the series to literally a third of the first gen despite the games being pushed this was about the time the anime and merchandise was in a slump what Nintendo began to realize that although the games were popular a large chunk of that popularity was generated but the media and merchandise so it wasn't just the latter benefiting from the games it was also the games benefiting from latter as they were marketing the games to a continuous audience hence why even the remakes of RG couldn't change the situation older fans were simply moving on or not buying the games as often.
When D/P were arriving the was a renewed push to the media side of thing which had seen stiff competition from numerous shows pop up since its dominance had been reduced compared to the 90s which caused D/P to do well and replaced a significant number of fans who had left. Some may argue that the DS' success was the main factor but then the GBA was heavily successful as well and the series declined on that platform, you can't even say it's because of close releases because the series has had close releases for ages now with no repeat of that decline the major change wasn't to the games it was to the rest of the franchise. The games were now even more closely tied to the media side of things with even the anime season being called Diamond and Pearl with each game and season after that sharing their names this was a more direct attempt at marketing and pushing the games to the younger audience.
The reason for the push to younger audiences? Pokemon was never an advance or flash game it was built on just being fun and simple which younger new players tend to not have a problem with and the are always going to be more of them on them way, someone gets older and finds the games aren't appealing or buys fewer games no worries the are always replacements to fill any gap left behind.
