https://sensortower.com/blog/pokemon-go-revenue-august-2019

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-10-30-pok-mon-go-surpasses-usd3bn-lifetime-revenue

https://www.pocketgamer.biz/news/71874/pokemon-go-collects-3-billion-in-lifetime-revenue/

Pokemon Go still makes money. And a lot of it. This is not going to stop just it's not in it's cenit.

Yeah, it's immensely profitable for the publisher, but where is the benefit to gamers to buy an incomplete version of the game? They launch at least two incomplete versions of the same game, every generation. The standard defense is it's actually an advantage because it forces you to make friends or something, but I don't buy that. Pokemon trading and battles would still be just as relevant even if everyone owned the whole game, but Nintendo knows that by splitting it up, they'll rake in cash from people who have to buy both games. It's just a cash grab.

Hey guy. This is not about Pokemon being bad or good. It's this, "The game is a serious step down from previous games in the franchise, but still good enough to buy and play"

That has been the same story for almost a decade now. How many more step downs before a major step up is achieved? 

Damn I made a horribly wrong assumption there. Well if they're looking at things from a maximum profits perspective, I can't argue that they should put more into the mainline games. 

You really do not read anything before posting do you?

I never said the game did not have flaws and that there was not debatable reason for someone not to want to play.  I was simply pointing something out that I thought about regarding traditional handheld games coming to Switch from devs that make traditional handheld games, and why this might not equate to a huge console experience that some might wish them to become.  Pokemon and the thought about battery life was the example.

But if your logic is that enjoying a game is being blind to its flaws and protecting anything, then all you are proving is how closed minded you are and how little you have brought to the conversation.

The response from Pokemon fans on the internet have been largely negative.  However most of the Pokemon fanbase does not really participate in these forums, so there is no telling what the vast majority thinks.  Judging by sales of the game, it cannot be that bad.  And from the outside looking in, I have arguably seen just as many Pokemon fans on the net liking the game as those that hate it.

Full disclosure, I am looking at this from the outside looking in.  I am a gen 1 Pokemon player that stopped after yellow.  This is my first game to return to, and I am having a blast.  Most of the complaints regarding the national dex and the cuts mean NOTHING to me.  With that in mind, what I see is a good game that deserves the 8/10.

I am not defending the game, I almost did not buy it as I have said before (glad I did).  That is not even what this thread is about.  But what I am noticing is that fans who are upset about the success of the games for whatever reason somehow feel the need to hijack any discussion that mentions Pokemon just to complain about it.

Now Fililix, I am not refering to you when I say this as I know you to be level headed.  But when someone says that most of the Pokemon fanbase is upset about the game, they seem to using tunnel vision due to their own disappointment.  From the outside looking in, there are just as many who are fine with it as those that hate it and they are just attacking eachother.

The game has flaws, and I blame no one for not buying it for their own reasons.  But it is also a good game, and if it is still a mega hit for being a good game no one has the right to hate on those who bought it.  The vast majority obviously did not have a problem with it.  People who enjoy the game deserve no less respect than those who gave it a pass.

Indeed, but there are much more negative facts than positive ones, and if we wanna focus on graphics, just compare to pretty much any other Switch game. Anyway, the point was to show there is such a thing as objective value and standards. For you to jump in to his defense, I'd rather your purpose be to spite me than to seriously believe objective and subjective mean the same thing.

No one ever said they were.

Yep that's it. Felt strange that the OP took the time to write out 6 paragraphs but decided to save time on the title with GF instead of Game Freak.

You did, or at the very least you were implying objectivity isn't a thing, that we can only look at game prices based on feelings.

Anyway forget that, are you ever going to acknowledge that Game Freak said they're going for quality?

Save time? ...Hehe. Monkey see, monkey do.