>>49174732The thing I was going to say to this was that it would never work as a mass marketting strategy. "Gotta Catch 'Em All!" works well with the lowest common denominator, without whose money the Pokemon franchise could never have grown as massive and influential as it has.
Then it occurred to me that neither of these are good. Every problem with Pokemon post-Gen V, aka the 3D era, can be traced back to having too MUCH money and not too little. And the lowest common denominator have the worst taste and interest in pokemon in any case.
It's a cruel tradeoff, because we can look at all the pearls in Nintendo's collection of games without this LCD factor - Advance Wars, Metroid, Star Fox, F-Zero, Earthbound, Pikmin - and see the extent to which they are sidelined and neglected. Where, one must ask, is the middle ground, the healthy balance between bloated cash cow and forgotten, aged beaut?
