Board 8 > This just makes me sad because it's true. [Nintendo] [Pokemon]

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The idea has been mentioned time and again so I know this is nothing "new" but the fact is there is hardly a person on the board who wouldn't play the hell out of a pokemon game like this. It doesn't even have to be an MMO, just a fully open world where you can get your pokemon master on. Allowing people to join each others game would just be massive bonus.

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That map of all the regions is stupid. They should have picked the one that actually is canon (the one that matches up the various regions to parts of japan + Unova to New York State)

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And than you can choose your starter town and you start in that region.

Oh god the ideas

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The point is that they don't even need to include every region at first and it would still be the best thing ever.



From: YetAnothrShadow | #003

And than you can choose your starter town and you start in that region

But oh god yes this if they did start with several regions.


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This would be expensive as f*** to make, and I don't think it honestly boosts the sales anywhere near enough to justify the jump in expenditures.

But we can dream.

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Yeah, with 1.5 million sales of BW2 in Japan for the first week, it'd be hard to envision them jumping much higher than that over there. 1.5 million is... what over there.

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Then they make it a MMO and charge us all 10 bucks a month.

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Subscriptions in Japan would definitely be steady for a long time and they'd be no slouch overseas either, yeah.

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I would pay.

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Realistically though I think it steps on the toes of the handhelds too much.

If anything they'll just be incorporating more MMO like things into the main series over time and just never touch consoles.

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I would get a Wii U for that and only that.

Zelda couldn't make me buy one.

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I think it's a system-selling idea, so it's about more than individual game units sold imo

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a pokemon MMO would be the first legitimate threat to warcraft ever, nintendo isn't ambitious enough to pursue it though, they can sell millions of copies of effortless rehash instead

I want endless rehashes of Pokemon Black!!!!

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From: Liquid Wind | #013

a pokemon MMO would be the first legitimate threat to warcraft ever, nintendo isn't ambitious enough to pursue it though, they can sell millions of copies of effortless rehash instead

Yep.

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Black and White are the best Pokemon games!

Also nothing can threaten Warcraft, that fight is over.

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Yeah, Black and White are pretty terrific. Gen V's fantastic and I look forward to Black 2 in a few months.

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Achromatic posted...

Black and White are the best Pokemon games!

Also nothing can threaten Warcraft, that fight is over.

A Pokémon MMO definitely could with the right approach.

Aside from what's been mentioned in the image in the first post: make the Black and White region (no idea how that's called) available together with Kanto and you'd appeal to the newer fanbase, the hardcore fanbase that still buys every game AND the nostalgic fanbase that only played up until Silver/Gold or whatever. Then make the other regions DLC or what not and BAM, a legitimate threat in the MMO world.

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The problem is that no one at Nintendo appears to want to make this game.

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Also, you thought Diablo 3's servers were bad? Blizzard actually is intensely familiar with how those operate and how to get them working right. Try making an MMO that would have double that and whose prime demo is kids.

Yeah, that's a nightmare.

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I'm not saying that nintendo wouldn't step on themselves with the execution of some things (like servers)

But even with that said, Chris, you would 100% buy that game.



From: XIII_rocks | #012

I think it's a system-selling idea, so it's about more than individual game units sold imo

And this i agree with. It might be easier to stick with the same sort of games they have been churning out, but big picture nintendo should want to give Wii U an amazing selling point.

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This would be one of the very few things where price just wouldn't matter to me at all. I'd pay no matter what.

Also, as a Pokemon freak, I have to point out that Sinnoh is located north of all the others, and thus the map is wrong.

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Achromatic posted...

The problem is that no one at Nintendo appears to want to make this game.

there's this

Rad Link 5 posted...

This would be expensive as f*** to make, and I don't think it honestly boosts the sales anywhere near enough to justify the jump in expenditures.

But we can dream.

nintendo would actually have to dedicate a AAA budget to a project like this and they're not used to that, their thing these days is making extremely inexpensive novelties like wii fit and watching that sell millions and millions while they expend basically nothing making it

which sucks ;_;

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big problem:

Pokemon is Nintendo's most child-friendly franchise. Nintendo would do their best to protect them from the evils of the Internet, and an MMO with that kinda protection is.. yikes.

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From: Forceful_Dragon | Posted: 7/2/2012 4:16:37 AM | #001

a person on the board who wouldn't play the hell out of a pokemon game

Hey look, you mentioned me. But, if they did make it, it would probably do very well.

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I'd buy a wii u just for this.

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GuessMyUserName posted...

big problem:

Pokemon is Nintendo's most child-friendly franchise. Nintendo would do their best to protect them from the evils of the Internet, and an MMO with that kinda protection is.. yikes.

I don't know any children who play pokemon, it's mostly hipsters in their early 20s at this point