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Rab on 01 July 2017

Nailed it



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Jranation on 01 July 2017
naruball said:
Kai_Mao said:

Except they are making a new core RPG Pokémon game for the Switch which will definitely use more resources for HD development. And why spend $300-400 million for an HD project? I don't think it's necessary to spend THAT much. GTA V was about $250 million.

And its their choice to continue the mainline games on handhelds. They probably feel that they can get the best out of Pokémon (interactivity for both offline and online, meeting people, battling, trading, training, etc.) through handhelds because you can take them on the go. You see the commercials. They emphasized what makes Pokémon what it is.

Never said they weren't. Their core RPG's (imo) are the same unmbitious stuff we've see for decades. If you're happy with that, great. I'm not.

Why spend so much? To make something remarkable. Something that will make people fall in love with it instead of satisfying the same customers. Pokemon could finally look great, the pokeomon could finally move and hit each other like in the anime. But that costs money and time and they have no reason to spend either when they are already so successful. Great for them, not enough for me.

Your not a pokemon fan? What pokemon games you played?



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naruball on 01 July 2017
Jranation said:
naruball said:

Never said they weren't. Their core RPG's (imo) are the same unmbitious stuff we've see for decades. If you're happy with that, great. I'm not.

Why spend so much? To make something remarkable. Something that will make people fall in love with it instead of satisfying the same customers. Pokemon could finally look great, the pokeomon could finally move and hit each other like in the anime. But that costs money and time and they have no reason to spend either when they are already so successful. Great for them, not enough for me.

Your not a pokemon fan? What pokemon games you played?

Pokemon Blue, Pokemon red, a bit, Pokemon Yellow, Pokemon Silver and a bit of Gold. Emerald at some point I think. Then Pokemon Y which I never beat (I did buy a 3ds for it, though) because it didn't feel different enough from Pokemon Blue. Most recently Pokemon Go since it came out. The only thing that could bring me back is an ambitious one like Ni no kuni with great story and a beautiful world to explore.



Alby_da_Wolf on 01 July 2017
NawaiNey said:
Green098 said:
Good thing Nintendo entered the mobile space, their is a gold mine of money free for the taking that can be invested into actual full quality titles.

Oh don't count on that, Nintendo likes to keep the money in its bank account so Nintendo fans can make topics bragging about how much money Nintendo has in the bank.

LOL!   

naruball said:
Kai_Mao said:

Except they are making a new core RPG Pokémon game for the Switch which will definitely use more resources for HD development. And why spend $300-400 million for an HD project? I don't think it's necessary to spend THAT much. GTA V was about $250 million.

And its their choice to continue the mainline games on handhelds. They probably feel that they can get the best out of Pokémon (interactivity for both offline and online, meeting people, battling, trading, training, etc.) through handhelds because you can take them on the go. You see the commercials. They emphasized what makes Pokémon what it is.

Never said they weren't. Their core RPG's (imo) are the same unmbitious stuff we've see for decades. If you're happy with that, great. I'm not.

Why spend so much? To make something remarkable. Something that will make people fall in love with it instead of satisfying the same customers. Pokemon could finally look great, the pokeomon could finally move and hit each other like in the anime. But that costs money and time and they have no reason to spend either when they are already so successful. Great for them, not enough for me.

Moving Pokémons? Blasphemy!!! 


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Cloudman on 01 July 2017
fielding88 said:
I'll admit that I'm a daily player. The people around me still play. What surprises me is that 60 million number, which is down from a 100 million peak last August. If you live on the Internet (like us Millennials do) and listened to the vitriol, you'd expect that number to be much, much, much lower.

It's become a joke at this rate, haha. If you read the comments of PoGo videos, there's at least a handful of "People still play this?" comments made



 

              

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ice on 01 July 2017

Not even gunna front, spent a cool $10 on raid passes



Slownenberg on 01 July 2017

epic revenue! I played Pokemon Go a bunch the first two months it was out last year, when there were just throngs of players everywhere, just swarming all over the trails and park near my house. Doubt we'll ever see anything like that again. Surprised it is still making this much money. I actually was sitting next to two girls playing it at the dog park this morning and I chuckled to myself, thinking how long it had been since I had seen anyone playing it - personally I uninstalled it back in december I think because I had only been turning it on like once every couple of weeks for a few months. Fun game though, with all the money they were making right from day 1 though they should have hired a bunch of people immediately and really built out some good features within the first few months. But I guess they are still making plenty so whatever.



Teeqoz on 01 July 2017
Luke888 said:
Teeqoz said:

Well yes, Niantic and Apple/Google, then The Pokemon Company, which in turn is split into Nintendo, Creatures Inc. and Gamefreak, the latter (the latter two?) of which are partly owned by Nintendo.

 

Mindblown.

Nintendo also owns part of Niantic

True, and Niantic also owns a part of Nintendo. The plot thickens...



Alby_da_Wolf on 01 July 2017
Teeqoz said:
Luke888 said:

Nintendo also owns part of Niantic

True, and Niantic also owns a part of Nintendo. The plot thickens...

Niantic, Nintendo, Nirvana, Nigel Farage, Nibiru, the Knights who say Ni... I see a pattern, but I'm too scared to uncover the horrible truth that lies underneath!



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monocle_layton on 01 July 2017
naruball said:
Lafiel said:

just imagine what kind of lush and lively world gamefreak could create if they used 300-400m of that money for their next game (thinking of the Pokémon movies here) ..

but they won't

My problem exactly with this company. They want to spend as little as possible. They are cheap as fuck and only get away with it because their fans will buy anything as long as it has Pokemon.

The potential for greatness is there, but they can't be bothered.

We don't need to spend that much money lol. That'll be on the lines of a next gen GTA 6 game.

 

However, we all know the games aren't made for anything more than 10,000,000 (maybe more with ads). A Switch version will probably see them use more, but don't forget that throwing money at games doesn't automatically make them better