>>39691137You know, sales don't equal quality. Even Nintendo themselves fell by that for a while, what's why the failure of Wii U and the surprising success of Splatoon was necessary for them to realize which audience Nintendo should aim for. This resulted in the creation of the Nintendo Switch and its great first-party software output which is the best since the SNES era.
Yes, the Switch is gimmicky. But Nintendo knew they had to put effort to make masterpieces to profit from it in the long run, like what the big third party studios not named EA does.
This is here what TPC and GF fail.
The reason why the pokemon games sell what they do regardless of quality id because of the mainline games is near-monopoly of its genre, monster-catching RPG for the masses. TPC relies too much on its brand name and merchandise to sell. If a competitor does the same but better, the brainless fanbase will leave Pokemon in the long term for their much sexier competitor.
Pokemon has the risk of becoming a nobody in the next 20 years of they rely on Hollywood-style business instead of maintaining the loyalty of the hardcore audience.
