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  • @Bluefruit
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    481 year ago

    The IPs alone are gold let alone the games they make. Pokemon imo has been subpar for a while and it still prints money. Yea i dont see them selling anytime soon.

      • @ShittyBeatlesFCPres
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        41 year ago

        Pokémon? With the poké and the mon? https://youtu.be/_kUG-YDcLuw

        I guess that clip is a little dark now that we know what Bill Cosby did to women. And we don’t even know what happened to Mortimer Ichabod Marker.

      • @hansl
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        11 year ago

        For media. I thought the highest grossing general IP was Hello Kitty.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

      Hot take: the Pokémon games have always been trash, and the version locked exclusives in each generation are day 1 dlc

      • @PoopingCough
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        261 year ago

        and the version locked exclusives in each generation are day 1 dlc

        I can see how it would be seen this way, but imo the intention from the beginning wasn’t that people would buy both/all three versions per generation, it was to encourage people to trade with each other. Which absolutely worked when it came out. It was a totally new idea that definitely helped sell more people on the games, because they could connect with friends and trade or battle, with later gens adding even more features for when you connected.

        I could see making the dlc argument these days, but at this point you could also argue it’s just out of tradition.

      • @GhostsAreShitty
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        21 year ago

        I can’t remember ever enjoying a Pokémon game. I think it’s for people who get a dopamine hit from collecting.

        • Björn Tantau
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          101 year ago

          For me they were always just fun little JRPGs. I usually don’t go collecting all Pokémon. I just have my roster of monsters I regularly use in fights and level up.