Pokémon Sword/Shield shipped 21.10m by March 31st. Lifetime sales expectations?

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kopstudent89 said:

Darwinianevolution said:

On the contrary, Pokemon Go swept the legs of the mainline games. When your mobile game makes in a year more money than the entirety of the mainline series COMBINED, priorities were going to be changed in The Pokemon Co. GameFreak was having problems of vision and content since X/Y, but the fact that now they have to compete for relevance over is a burden for the studio. They need to keep up the profits by speeding up development, cutting corners and selling old content as DLC, which somehow fucking worked for SwSh, but I wonder for how long that's going to last.

I get that, but don't you think the series could have evolved? Seeing how GTA went from strength to strength and ended up selling 100m+ copies, I really thought that Pokemon was capable of making that kind of jump. It is a series that can sell 40m+, and at twice the price of previous iterations. I think that would've complimented Pokemon Go and even pushed it further. But hey a man can dream 

Oh, absolutely, it could be great. They have the resources to do it, and they could take all the time in the world to add all of the mechanics and features that were abandoned, plus many more. But they wont, since Game Freak and The Pokemon Co. are too comfortable just how they are right now.