Actually I see Nintendo / Pokemon fans complain about GameFreak being lazy and incompetent all the time. Complaints are usually leveled against GameFreak, in the same way complaints about Zelda are directed towards Aonuma, complaints about Smash are directed towards Sakurai, etc.

Ill give you Narcis Prince. He was from england and its kind of a stereotype. Where was mad clown from? What country is famous for clowns?

mad clown was from italy. hoy quarlow from china. the clown aspect was cool. that is what punchout is all about. they stepped out of the box a little more with the snes version. 

Italy is not the country I think of when I see a clown...and if Hoy Quarlow was from china, where was Dragon Chan from...?

dragon chan was from hong kong. mad clown has to be from somewhere? where did clowns originate? i dont know, but maybe nintendo did some research and italy was the birthplace for clowns lol. either way it doesnt matter. italy is a decent place for mad clown to be from. 

Their large focus on internal software development and maintaining hardware profits certainly makes them more capable at surviving on a small install base, but i wouldn't say Sony or MS need 80m+ to be comfortable, at least not anymore. Both appear to have learnt their lesson from the last gen. 

The PS4 in particular is almost hilariously more financially viable than the PS3 was. Not selling at a huge loss puts it several billion ahead of the PS3 on its own Add in its own success, as well as PS+, and its obvious the PS4 is intended to generate money, not secure a market (blu-ray).

If they maintained their new model (avoid large long term losses and use the install base as a foothold for other services, not simply game royalties), then SCE could probably survive fairly comfortably on a moderate sized install base (with the backing of the primary company for large short term losses such as the $1b+ they'll have needed to manufacture the launch wave of PS4s). I don't have the knowledge to state an actual number, but certainly a lot less than 80+ million.

TL;DR - I agree, but Sony and MS have come a long way in improving the financial viability of their consoles. 

I meant this more in regards to this Pokemon MMO that people are constantly asking for.

Yeah, actually I take that back. When I think of a circus, Italy do pop up. Would rather they have the italian guy from the arcade game named Pizza Pasta

Yes, that's what I was thinking of as well. People saying GameFreak won't do it because they are lazy.