A Direct is announced for April 2nd to cover the games.

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    23 hours ago

    Pokemon is literally the same game over and over, I hugely regretted my purchase of pokemon x cause it was literally a cloned game with barely any new features. It’s probably Nintendo’s most effective cash cow in terms of effort to capital reward.

    • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works
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      23 hours ago

      It is literally the biggest money maker in the world. The games sell about 3/5 as many copies as COD with a tiny fraction of the budget. And then they sell even more in merch. And there are people (like me in the past) that buy Nintendo consoles just for those games.

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        17 hours ago

        That doesn’t contradict what they said. It being popular says nothing about quality, variety, or effort. In fact, it may be counter to them, as your example of CoD indicates.

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            17 hours ago

            Good! I couldn’t tell. I thought it could be an appeal to popularity saying they’re good games because they sell well, not they sell well regardless of them being repetitive.

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      22 hours ago

      X and Y introduced Mega Evolution, arguably one of the greatest iterative improvements in Pokémon.

      With the upcoming Pokémon Legends: Z-A in 2025, I’m thinking about replaying X and Y.

      Scarlet and Violet were so disappointing that I too am hesitant about future Pokémon games. But I’ll keep my eyes and ears peeled to see how their upcoming games are. I no longer am a day one buyer of Pokémon games, after being burned badly on the rushed Scarlet/Violet games.

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      22 hours ago

      I jumped through a couple hoops to get Pokemon Infinite Fusion working on my Steam Deck & I’ve been having a blast slapping shit together to see how fucked up it looks.

      Cleffa + Geodude made me giggle for a good 5 minutes.

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      21 hours ago

      Sub in literally any Nintendo franchise and it’s the same problem, but Nintendo fans don’t care.