There is something clearly down the road for Nintendo and I am curious about how the almost universal disdain to S/V resonated with the boardroom.
There wasn’t almost universal disdain for SV. People complained about the draw distance and glitches but beyond that were ok with it. If anything fans were mad that glitches and draw distance were distracting from the mountains of stuff they liked about the game because it was that bad.
Like I don’t give a fuck about glitches or pop in in Pokemon games, they’ve always been a mess I haven’t cared.
But when the sky quite litterally drops out and becomes a black void above my head even I am going to be distracted by it.
The way old Pokemon games loaded sections or on the screen you usually had to at least put a tiny bit of effort into making your trainer come face to face with hell.
And it was constant. The world just popped away into the void if you did anything.
This Pokemon Day stream just felt "clinical" and almost directionless.
No directionless. More like they aren’t ready to show what they have. Either because Switch 2 or it is not ready.
It felt like there was a director with a bat just swinging at an idea board. Some of these products are just terrible, Sleep will do terrible as the demographic aims at products that fit into their life actively, that is why Go was so successful. Sleep just feels like a Nintendo heart rate monitor with extra steps.
Sleep monitoring fits into life activety. That’s why they announced it after Go and tie into it. The problem is then it took ages to release and by the time it did everyone had moved on. But you’ve got to do something with the thing you wasted time developing.
Game Freak would've had gold if BDSP was some weird prequel-sequel-prequel with Legends: Arceus.
Exactly. People don’t want remakes they want games that expand the regions. Which is why Crystal is held so highly. They should have taken Platinum and just gone even further into developing the stuff it added and released that
Why did GF stop with whole Mega Evolution universe thing after Gen 7?
They haven’t. At least not technically. We are still in that Universe unless they say otherwise.
But if they did maybe they just wanted a clean break where everything is more gen and game contained and starting with Gen 8 on a completely new console is a smart move in that case.
I don't know how old the age demographic for Pokemon is but I think it might actually be kids maybe more than adults.
When you consider the stuff the really sells is all the cute cuddly merch aimed at kids at shown off via a very child focused cartoon. And all but two of the games protags are 10-11 and school aged…it’s not adults.
Its peers/rivals are a lot more adult in theme and design. I'm not too knowledgeable about YuGiOh, but the Digimon games I've played (the Cyber Sleuth/Hacker's Memories games) are wayyyy more like sexualized even in just character design alone. Nokia your friend in the game for example has very detailed designs like. You can see the bellybutton/line thing through her dress etc.
As you say all it’s rivals tend to go for the older audiance. Likely becsuse Pokemon will crush them if they even try and go after their demo. Which leads to Pokemon never having to worry.
The one time the demo was gone after well..,no one remembers Yokai Watch anymore.
