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Lady: Oh no! The locust are spoiling our picnic by the tree. They're trying to get at my armoured fishnet stockings!
Marcus: ...omnomnomnomnomnom...
Lady: Oh no! They have a giant screwdriver. They're gonna disassemble my armoured breasts!
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I even watched the anime and saw the first movie.
But man...even I don't have the attention span to watch more than that... #pokemon
10/15/09
Let it go and start judging the new games on their own merits, not on "WAAA ITS NOT A 3D MMORPG"
This game actually looks interesting #pokemon
10/15/09
I haven't yet decided if this is a good of bad thing. #pokemon
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It's a way to ensure that the hype doesn't supersede the game, resulting in a product that disappoints rather than surprises. It's also an attempt to avoid having the hype train burn out, instead using the smaller window to build up momentum towards the release date.
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A Pokemon MMO would be worthless. A console Pokemon RPG on the other hand, now we're talking. #pokemon
10/15/09
Nintendo seems to have no itnerest in Pokemon anymore than poorly thought out spin offs. It disappoints me, the lack of effort thrown into the spinoff games, when there are obvious ideas out there that would be much better.
Pokemon Snap 2. I mean, Come on. #pokemon
10/15/09
10/15/09
A big hindrance to an MMO on the Wii is the friends code system. They'd have to have a system built into a potential MMO where you login with you friend code since you can't connect to others without using it.
The other thing would be that the game would likely have to have preset phrases for communication and no VOIP as a direct result of Nintendo's protective nature towards kids and that Pokemon is geared towards kids. I mean even though the Wii has parental controls Nintendo insisted on the friend code system.
Maybe Nintendo has it in their mind that Pokemon is meant to be played locally with the exception of trading Pokemon. I mean I wouldn't be surprised if people at Nintendo want to do a Pokemon MMO but haven't figured out the right way to pitch it or are too afraid to try. Maybe Nintendo or Satoshi Tajiri-Oniwa feel Nintendo isn't in the right place to make it happen just yet. Especially since they've never done an MMO they'd probably have to look at contracting a studio to do it for them or get an internal team in place to do it which would mean they'd have to hire employees specifically for MMO's.
I can't agree that it will never ever happen though if it were a success, and I have no reason to think it wouldn't be, Nintendo would have another means of printing money. Not even considering WOW level subscription numbers, even if a Pokemon MMO was still only half as successful that would still be $1 billion a year of annual revenue. #pokemon
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I've been waiting for something like a console version ever since playing Red Version on my Gameboy Color. If they made a full-fledged console Pokemon game it could be amazing.
10/15/09
Remember, as much as the 'core' may cry for something, causals are what made Pokemon what it is. #pokemon
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I'm just curious. #pokemon
10/15/09
Look at it this way, Pokemon is Nintendo's Monster Hunter. No console Monster Hunter will -ever- do what the portables do. At best we could hope for a Stadium like game that doesn't suck. #pokemon
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Cause just like you said.. I'm 22 and I would buy it in a second. Even if I have to hide it from my family/friends. #pokemon
10/15/09
It would not be worth the development costs, nor would it sell. The biggest driving force of Pokemon is it's portable nature. #pokemon
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Poke'mon = Pocket Monsters
How can Pocket Monsters be on a Console? You can't fit a console in your pocket. There's your reason why we'll never see a traditional game outside of the portable market. #pokemon
10/15/09
And, really, what would be the advantage of playing a portable-style RPG on the console other than more robust graphics? If anything, the ease of local and online battling featured in the most recent portable versions would be reduced solely to the latter.
It's not as if the story would improve drastically, nor would the gameplay feature a much needed revolution (IMO), if it tried to emulate the portable Pokemon titles. #pokemon
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-Servers and infrastructure.
-The cost of forming and keeping a development team around who does nothing else BUT work on the MMO
This means patches, new content, bug fixes.
-Funding, training and keeping a support team of GMs around 24/7 just for the MMO. This can get really costly quick
-Even if you just took the basic world of Pokemon and ported it over, it would cost millions on millions of dollars.
-The Wii is ill suited for a MMO, due to the fact that game patches are only allowed to be delivered in a complete system update.
-A MMO needs a billing service. This eats into costs and raises overhead.
-PR costs.
Look at the costs for developing FF11, 13 and WoW. Look at how much they run monthly. It's why so many MMO's die. WoW alone costs Blizzard more then 10 million dollars to keep running. #pokemon
10/15/09
EDIT: Forgot about hidden posts, well at least it's a popular train of thought. Come on Nintendo, give us what we want!
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