Fair enough, it’s always safe to experiment in the mobile sector since that’s the most prominent right now. I’m still sticking to my opinion that they have far better options to use for spinoff titles, though. To each their own!
I agree. That's actually what I am hoping for, if they do a poison dart frog that they would focus on the bright colors in its design and is poisonous skin that effect you by touching the frog on ability. perhaps it can be a special attacker with water and poison moves.
They happen to be quite different in execution though: Feebas is mainly Ugly>Beauty whereas Magikarp is Weak>Strong.
yeah but the same could be done with the toxicroak and a pretty bright colored poison dart frog. they are sometimes kept as pets for their beauty anyway.
it's still the same general small, weak fish becomes strong dragon-like serpentine fish. and if you wanna get into the technicalities of it all, who knows exactly what a supposed reused concept would be. maybe this supposed frog becomes Poison/Ground and its claps as a Stage 1 turn into creating earthquakes or whatever.
I have a ton of unscratched Zeraora cards if you want one of the codes. The dude at Gamestop seriously gave me like 20.
Are spin-offs even commissioned? I was under the impression that companies came up with the idea for a game and approach TPCi for permission to use the characters, not that TPCi came up with the idea and handed it out to some random developer to make it. Which would mean that it's the developer's choice to make a new game, not TPCi's.
I’m almost positive that it has to at least be both. Always waiting for other developing companies to approach you would likely not be a very good business practice.
It's Pokémon, though. With that kind of popularity, they hardly have to wait for developers. And the main series sells so well, it's not like they need spin offs to survive. They're just a bonus that benefits them and the outside developer.
They don’t need them to survive, no, but that’s not really the goal of any business. The goal is to maximize revenue. No company (other than possibly Nintendo) would know better than Pokémon themselves when the ideal time is to release a spin off game and what that game should be and on what platform. Pokémon is big, but always relying on other people to come to you is not a good business practice and is unreliable.
But they don't need spin off games, so why would it be part of their business practice to go "Oh we need a spin off, let's ask this random other developer to do it."? That would mean that TPCi felt the need to design a spin off concept and then handed it off to someone else for a little extra revenue that they then have to share with the third party company.
What spin-off games do you have in mind? It isn't realistic to expect anything that is over a generation old, so that leaves PMD and Art Academy in terms of retail games. And I'm guessing that you (like most people) don't care about Art Academy, so is this all about PMD? You do realize that Spike Chunsoft own the Mystery Dungeon IP, right? At any rate, PMD games are usually released in gap years, with the exceptions (Sky and Gates) being on the less grand side (promotionally at least).
You might not care, but seeing as Pokemon has only asked these studios to do these games, it clearly matters to them.
What are you talking about? Pokemon Rumble World, Pokken Tournament, and Super Mystery Dungeon released in the same year, 2015. Pokemon Conquest and Gates to Infinity were both released in 2012. The first Pokemon Rumble released in 2009, as did Explorers of Sky. XD released in 2005 with the first Mystery Dungeon games in Japan. PokePark 2 and Rumble Blast both released in 2011. Detective Pikachu and Quest were both released in 2018. This happens all the time.
No developers that could set aside a year or so of time to develop a game, while they had their own projects? Why is that so unlikely? Look at Spike Chunsoft's lineup for the past four years.
Somehow this person has inside information on Game Freak's marketing plans, but were unable to get anything else? Lol, sure.
It's not a bad thing to doubt a rumor's validity, especially given the huge number of fakes out there. Nor is it a bad thing to have differing opinions. That's not inherently "strife". (However, looking down on other people for not agreeing with you, and complaining about it...that's stirring up problems more)
That would be real nice, I'd kinda love you for that roflmao
It's cute, it's a tiger, it's an Electric type, it's not anthro. I couldn't possibly ask for more. It actually looks like a tiger-mouse tbh, but still adorable. I'd name it Fluffball.Hope you like corgi tigers, because we almost had them in Gen I and Gen II. It was one of the biggest losses in my opinion.
Kind of agree. Or that games start to become more mobile influenced (like Go -> Let's Go). I think that would make the franchise reach the point when I'll actually be dropping it because while I love handhelds, I'm not the biggest fan of mobile games.
They essentially lost the star character at the end of the film, though.
