I don't think Go's intention was to get people to buy new handheld pokemons (which also means buying 3ds's). I think it was simply to make a ton of money of the mobile app and give Pokemon a spot on the large mobile market. You also have to consider that one of the big investor in GO is Google and they have nothing to gain from making people buy a 3ds and Sun. it is important to remember that Nintendo is FAR from being the only decision maker behind Pokemon Go. Creature and Gamefreak own Pokemon as well and for all we know their main intention may have to been to expand Pokemon beyond Nintendo handhelds (a shrinking market) to mobile (a growing market).

It is hard to imagine non-gamers following a mobile fad transitioning to Sun/Moon which can be a $100+ investment. we are talking about mobile consumers buying a gaming console to catch pokemon when they already can on their phones free and all their friends play on phones as well. just not likely the way I see it. also the Sun/Moon (and a couple gens before that) pokemon deisgns look extremely offputting to people who are blinded by nostalgia like me. If something like Fire red was to release at this time I would definately think the nostalgia factor of Go would noticably boost sales.

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I don't believe that Sun/Moon will sell that much.  On each Nintendo handheld, the first Pokemon game on it is the best selling and I don't see that changing especially since the 3DS is almost at its deathbed, even with the anniversary and Pokemon go.  Also, BO3 sold close to 24 million copies, so I don't see a 9 million sales decrease this year.  I do think that there will be a decrease, but not that bad.  The last mainline Call of Duty to sell below 20 million was World at War at to think that Infinite Warfare is going to sell 15 million is a bit ridiculous.  I still think that Sun/Moon aren't going to outsell XY and every single mainline Call of Duty since Call of Duty 3 has outsold Pokemon XY.  

Its possible. Not only do I think COD will have a significant decilne in sales, but Pokemon will have a significant increase.

I don't know much about how heavily bundles affected sales. All I know is many major games get bundled and I never heard of anything suggesting Black Ops bundle was something extraordinary. that is why I didn't comment on the bundles part. I just don't know the details on this subject and you didn't even explain why the bundle were so special. not saying you are wrong, just that you didn't tell me exactly why you are right.

As for your reasoning about IW declining YoY, your main reason was the trailer had a negative reception by many right? I just don't see how that matters now when it has been cool to bandwagon hate CoD for years now on the internet. the massive hate it recieved never affected sales, I remember non stop hating for MW3 and non stop praising for battlefield 3 being the second coming, yet MW3 went on to becoming to best selling COD of all time. and you are the one claiming it will shrink, I replied saying I don't your reasoning for it shrinking is very strong. Why should I have to provide reasons of it "growing" its audience? All i have to do is provide reasons why it will not decrease to 15mil to disagree with you.

yeah... no...CoD will remain the king of sales, and going against battlefield will only make people talk about it more. its Cod vs Battlefield again, people will keep talking about both games, and the end result will be both games selling huge amounts.

also when the holidays finally come around the hype around Pokemon go will have died off.

... bump

Last paragraph tho?
I wouldnt call this a bold prediction, but still very well done!

Slarvax said: Last paragraph tho? I wouldnt call this a bold prediction, but still very well done!

What about it?

Oh dang! This is going to be good! Claps to you man if it is true! I remember saying a while back in another thread that it will be impossible!