being honest, i didn't play it. it's kind of a tragedy what happened to the 3DS eshop, the gen 7 games are cartridge only now, unless you mod your 3ds. same for harmoknight, which i can't find sales numbers for, don't think it would've done the pokemon numbers. gamefreak's other franchises tend to be pretty niche.
It was niche. But it did ok. And is very well liked.
There's already a couple of items that make pokemon with time-based requirements to evolve, the sun and moon shards (Missing one for sunset with Lycanroc I suppose)
GF can't stand that some nobody studio that never worked on a Pokemon game before and didn't even understand it's mechanics made two hits back to back that even 20 years later make their games look like a joke, graphically and otherwise.
They don’t and considering most of the staff that worked on the game, i doubt they mind someone else making the games.
I think they’d be stopped from doing that by the fact they are GC and Nintendo just does nit seem to want to emulate that console on VC at all.
They sold bad and were not recieved well. Like many gamecube games it is the few children that played them at the time growing up and remembering them fondly, frequently as much better than they were.
Some cult classic characters would do wonders with some merchandising and re-releasing these games on VC doesn't cost them anything. I don't know how well they sold but they were definitely received well at the time, even more so now as people learned to appreciate them. There is zero reason why TPCi wouldn't do the bare minimal to try and make some more money unless there is a personal reason for someone within the company. In Japanese culture, the higher ups are basically treated like royalty, you can't say shit to them if you work beneath them, which means if they would have some personal vendetta or insisted the company take some retarded direction, who's going to stop them? This is a bigger issue over there than you might think.
It cost Nintendo having to actually give us a VC that plays Cube games and that seem beyond reluctant to do that
Not very. It was the Cube.
Did not sell well, spin offs and due to a lack of VC they would have to port them proper. Meaning you are asking the company to waste money in their eyes.
Mystery Dungeon games were on the GBA and ran up through the DS. Infinitely more popular and well known. And also. GBA. Much easier to remake.
the gamecube strikes again.
Literally just sell the ROMs and the emulator to play it, bam you got a new game. How much money do you think Nintendo is losing by making the only viable option to play these games not within their walled garden but for free on Dolphin? There is definitely enough people who had Orre blue balls for 20 years to make the endeavor worthwhile, so I don't want to hear "nobody would buy it" excuse, especially with how well pieces of shit like SwSh and SV sold. It's clear neither the fanbase nor the devs have any expectations for one another.
They released more games on way more sucsessful consoles.
It does. Seemingly Nintendo hates the Cube.
Well either that or they see no reason to remake games they don’t think will sell well. And honestly if you are putting time into that might as well put it into a game you know will sell rather than one you are unsure will sell.
They released more games because these cost less to produce, on a console that's easier to work on. The real killing blow to the GC games wasn't the gamecube, it was PBR that Genius Sonority also worked on being a flop, they've been relegated to the mobile mines ever since. That's why I said I'm not surprised that game has never been re-released, but the GC were hardly on the same level. Your average player(ie normlfag) is also more likely to know CL and GoD than MD, if only by osmosis due to how similar the GC titles are to the mainline titles. MD were always very niche titles that had a small but dedicated fanbase, not unlike the GC titles. I have several friends who casually play Pokemon and none of them ever heard of MD games, where as a few of them heard of GoD due to it starring Shadow Lugia, which even today has somewhat small relevance.
this might be the best chance to shill for these games.
I actually reviewed these romhacks, altho I can't be arsed to link these right now.
It would not surprise me if that was the case.
It is. Colo and XD did not sell as they wanted. Then you had PBR - which was the bit of Colo and XD people liked - which did not do well.
Cause they had the N64 emulator on the Switch already. There is nit a Cube online yet.
Not selling as they expected is a good reason.
I can. They are a company making money. They absolutely talk about that. They certainly talk about it after sales figures are in.
What the fuck are you talking about? The whole reason PBR didn't sell well was because it was nothing like CL and GoD. We went backwards, from a proper mainline RPG in full 3D to a glorified Stadium clone which is borderline impossible to play without the DS carts, this was the biggest issue people had with it.
Yeah, why bother getting paid when you can have Dolphin eat your lunch? We all know companies hate making easy money!
Apparently there isn't a whole ton, nothing new anyways. All you get from Gen 7 is a few betas for SM and USUM.
That’s my point. Everyone praises CoD and GoD for the battles. They make a game that is just that and it does not do well.
They were the best selling RPGs on the cube selling round a mill each. But considering hiw big Pokemon is. A million is not great. At all. Really it got kneecapped by the Cube being a thing
Yeah. Why bother remaking a game that only sold a million when your expectations are 20 mil. And you are right it would probably sell well due to being on the Switch but unless they want to do something in Oree, i do not see that happening
They really do, it is rather frustrating.
Course it would be. It would take time and resources away from making games that will sell more.
Issue is I think Paper Mario has kept going long bast the two games. Colo didn’t. Because the Mario team viewed them as games whereas Pokemon appeared to view Colo and XD as a requirement to complete the dex and try and shift consoles.
Above is my writeup for NeXt Gen(long) and within the post is my writeup for Grand Colosseum, if anybody is interested
No, PBR is more like the Stadium titles where there is no story and no RPG mechanics, trading all that for arcade battling, it is nothing like CL and GoD. That was the point, people were expecting a next gen 3D RPG for the Wii and instead they got a game that was borderline impossible to complete without a DS and a copy of a Gen 4 game and a game that was far too similar to the Battle Tower already present in every Gen 4 game(why bother with PBR if you already have a simialr experience on your DS?). There was truly nothing like CL or GoD, they were brand new campaigns with an added twist that every single battle was a double battle, which was unlike anything on the GBA titles and nothing like we've seen since. The game ended up failing so bad that it never even got the Platinum update that was already completed.