Nintendo wants to kill Pokémon

>>25074999
>asked how many pokémon games
meant "How many pokémon games I have"

>>25074999
Can we get a evidence to the existence of that survey?

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>>25074999
oh hey another yokai shit thread.
Reminder to get a load of this shit

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>>25074999
Yo-Kai Watch isn't going to catch on in the west unless there was some big turn of events that I missed. Isn't the anime declining in viewership in Japan, too, because kids don't like the new burger protagonist? I don't have proof for the latter and it's just hearsay, but it sounds like Yo-Kai Watch is starting to die down, which anyone could see with the way they saturated the market instead of pacing themselves.

If Nintendo killed off a series that consistently sells millions long after Pokémania for this flash in the pan it'd be a very dumb move, I think you're full of shit.

>>25075044
>dying
>second movie is already surpassing the first movie in terms of sales
???

>>25075052
Well like I said, the anime bit was hearsay. The part about the west not catching on is definitely true though, you're not going to market >>25075042 to Americans and expect it to sell.

>>25074999
I don't think it will do well outside of Japan. It's far too culturally Japanese.

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>>25075020
Sure. It's in italian and about products in Europe.
I think americans will receive something similar

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>>25074999

>>25075070
Yes, and in the survey it asked if i thought that it was a good selling point the fact that the game was about japanese traditions.

>>25075077
here
>>25075073
is the mail I received

>>25075073
That doesn't prove shit. Show us the actual questions with a timestamp (which still can be easily faked, but at least requires some effort).

>>25075078
In all honesty. I'd totally become a yokai fag if they released a game based around each region of the world (western lore, African, Native American), but Japanese people are way to self focused to do that.

Question.

Why would they want to kill off one of their biggest cash cows?

I sincerely doubt Nintendo would do so, considering that the franchise still prints money one way or the other.

>>25074999
>pokemon 20th anniversary
>the anniversary it's only a cash cow for normies
>pokemon go
>pokemon red and blue

don't worry anon,such a thing is not going to happen

>>25075105
Yo-Kai Watch 3 did have a ton of American-based yo-kai. It was all hamburgers and baseball and shit, could've been neat but the designs are as awful as most of the ones in the series.

>>25074999

It is kinda suspicious considering we still never got a 3rd game for Kalos.

Did ORAS or XY do worse than expected in sales? Was the customer reception worse than expected?

I mean Kalos was set up for a 3rd game that still hasn't come and ORAS felt unfinished like there was DLC intended or a Delta Emerald.

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>>25075115
pushing it to mobile perhaps instead of handheld?
>>25075122
here's an american list

>>25075132
I'm really hoping they're just taking the time to make the last Gen 6 game good after the lackluster games we've gotten so far.

My pie-in-the-sky hope is that they have both Kalos and Hoenn in the last game, but just having one of the regions would be good if the fix all the issues with that region in Gen 6.

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>>25075089
I can't take the survey anymore, but as you said I could fake it if I wanted to.
If you don't want to trust me fine, but I swear it's true.

>>25074999
I think you've missed the point of that question senpai. The question about Pokemon's popularity is actually aimed at gauging whether it'd make sense to localise the next Yokai Watch game (and possibly other games in the genre, such as Monster Hunter Stories) to English or not. If you said yes Pokemon is still popular you just sent them a green signal that they should localise more Yokai Watch/other monster collecting games. If not, well, you can kiss goodbye to Digimon Re:Digitalize Decode, MHS and Dragon Quest Monsters in understandable language.

For our own sake I hope to God you selected one of the last two options.

>>25075122
Oh, I never followed the series, so I wouldn't know. Even still, it sounds like they're trying to force their cultural sense of the paranormal onto how they perceive americans. No one here thinks baseballs and hamburgers have spirits.
Better (and more relevant to American superstition/culture) designs would have been things like big foot, the swamp monster, and the chupa cabra. Even something like a lost set of keys (it makes your keys disappear) or a dog that eats your homework would have been much more culturally American.

>>25075152
I said "popular as ever", I think that the franchise is stable, not rising, not decreasing.

We used to get similar questions on those old Club Nintendo surveys, although they were usually phrased differently. (ie "How many people do you know are aware of ____?")

>>25075156
That's awesome. Hopefully if Yokai Watch becomes at least a moderate success we'll see a rebirth of the genre in the West. We used to have so many cool Pokemon clones in late 90s/early 00s, but now most of those franchises are either dead or not localized anymore.

>>25075155
see >>25075147
there's a rumor that american mythos do make an appearance, but they're boss only encounters

>>25074999
>ORAS sold 10+ million units
>Nintendo would want to stop that cash flow
>people still believe stupid shit like this
Yeah I'll believe you, op, when they stop making boat loads of cash off of it.

>>25075167
It asked if I know about games like yo-kai, fantasy life, tomodachi life and others

>>25075175
I guess I'd have to see how they handle it. But I probably won't buy the games anytime soon. I hope they get actual americans to weigh in. Same goes for other cultures they want to APPROPRIATE!
Jk, but seriously, foreigners never fully understand other cultures.

>>25075177

It also permanently damaged the series' reputation across the world (including in Japan). Do you really think they'd get a year off otherwise?

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>>25075177
I was about to call bullshit but then I checked sales, and shit, we really have consistently been hitting 10M sales for anything that isn't a third version, I've underestimated Pokémon.

>>25075206

>permanently damaged the series' reputation

Citation needed

I fucking wish. Pokemon needs to die, it's pure shit.

>>25075206
No, you didn't like it, you are not the majority. I posted facts, you're posting your opinion. Fuck off if you aren't going to contribute.

>>25075213
So do you come to this board just to shitpost? What do you get out of it?

>>25075213
>posts on /vp/
Man, you're on the wrong board AGAIN

>>25075208
For comparison, Yo-kai Watch barely broke 100k in the first month here in the states.

>>25075243
It will probably do better in Europe. Level 5 games always sell better here for some reason.

>>25074999
http://nintendoeverything.com/december-2015-npd-xenoblade-chronicles-x-and-devils-third-sales-ltd-wii-u3ds-games/

You needn't worry about any killing going on. YW only did 195k, which is only average instead of a breakthrough. Meanwhile SMD got 300k or so.

>>25075042

>designs that clearly have a lot of charm and heart that respect the lore they're derived from despite their unattractive looks
>bad

I bet you want to fuck Gardevoir.

If Nintendo was going to inexplicably kill off their #1 handheld franchise, and #2 overall franchise, it certainly would be for the total garbage that is YW. Something better would have to come along (even still, the whole premise of a game company killing off a huge franchise for shits and giggles is indescribably stupid).

>>25075206
>/vp/ is the majority of the world

In all fairness, they half-arsed the most recent game, absolutely refuse to announce anything of value and have only been making freemium mobileshit in the meantime.

I'd say they're definitely running out of ideas, and fast.

>>25075147
That rainbow skull is pretty good, and that lemon

>>25075177
It's just a survey

Yep, Pokémon is spending is $5,000,000 on a Super Bowl ad because they've given up.

YW, which hasn't sold worth a shit outside Japan, has won!

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>>25075442
Yeah, they do have some gems like rainbow skull. I don't like most of the designs but I'll give them credit where it's due.

>Those raging hot YW sales:

http://www.vgchartz.com/game/72232/yokai-watch/USA/

>>25075147
And that bathtub is creepy as hell

>>25075457

>>>

Maybe if they actually knew what they were doing they'd spend $5M making their games not half-arsed instead of a fucking ad.

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>Nintendo wanting to kill their 2nd biggest franchise.
Are you fucking stupid OP?

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They just opened a new Pokémon Center
Actually they will in March. You think they won't? I need mai special waifu pikachu

>>25075518

>opening up a new Pokemon Center

Just in time to coincidence with the release of...Nothing!

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>>25075550
It will have an exclusive maiko pikachu

>>25075550

God, /vp/ is collectively the biggest crybaby board.

They release a new mainline game every year between 2009-2014, and people whine that they're rushing shit, turning Pokémon into Call of Duty, etc.

They skip a year, and they're lazy, out of ideas, etc.

Some people just do not know what it is they want.

>>25075579

>Some people just do not know what it is they want.

O RLY?

Yokai Watch was fucking boring

>>25075579
>1 year of letting fans sit in ORAS and spinoffs
>panicmode.gif

Let the manchildren be.

>>25075213
Then why are you here?

>>25075629
To trigger gullible children like you into responding to such weak bait :^)

>>25075481
>vgchartz
NPD is more accurate desu

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>>25075629
>>25075640
You both have such rarge penis!

>>25075654

Except you've posted none. The NPD "cited" is literally just an anonymous Internet messageboard comment. Even if it was true, it's still a sad, pathetic number, lower than Happy Home Designer and Xenoblade Chronicles X.

>>25075655
will there be a plush version i can face fuck?

>>25075105
Go and see Inazuma Eleven 3, only arthurian shit and maybe the Brazilian guy. Level 5 can't do world because the only things they know about the west are Arthur and niggers

>>25075208

That's right. Every YW game ever made over the years has combined to ship 10,000,000... or less than what ORAS alone sold.

Funny, but I don't see YW anywhere on this list, and excuse me if I don't think it's ever going to either:

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/software/3ds.html

>>25075655
Why thank you fren, but I'm pretty proud of my average shlong.

>>25075739
to be fair, it seems like this is only a list of first party games, no third party ones

>>25075405

We have a Pokémon mobile?

>>25075759
I only think of two: Pokemon Shuffle and Picross. I hear the latter is aiming for a mobile release as well once their business is done with the 3ds

>>25075759
Not quite. Just spinoffs like Pokemon Shuffle which require a ridiculous amount of free time to grind.

>>25075579
Well I know what I want. I'm perfectly fine with Game Freak taking an extra year for a game to be good. Some people disagree and would rather have something rushed out like ORAS and those people have shit taste; it doesn't mean people don't know what they want, it means people have differences in opinion.

>>25075759
GO.

>>25075775
These too.

>>25075759
they're talking about Pokemon Go. It's supposed to be coming out this year for the genwunner normie fags to orgasm over. You must be new here if you haven't heard about it.

>>25075307
>unattractive
key word, anon.

>75 posts
>29 IPs
Finally /vp/ is learning to put yokai watch in their filter list

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>>25075263
Europe is more accepting of Japanese shit

>>25076034

What is the point you're trying to make with that list?

>>25076034
Explain that list

>>25075132
Go is just a cheaper, easier alternative. They aren't killing the franchise, in fact, it's getting to be the first to enter the new frontier of Nintendo mobile and blaze a path for other franchises to follow. From a certain point of view, that's an important place to be in.

>>25074999
Can confirm. The same survey to me, asking shit about Yokai. FUCK THAT

>>25078035

What is the point of a survey about a franchise few in Europe probably know about right now?

>>25078074
It's the last question of the survey asking about pokémon popularity. If it was just yokai ok, but it actually asks about pokémon and implies if it's even worth it to keep milking it.

>>25075147
That's suicide for their handhelds.

>>25076349
>>25077817

not him but it's just differences between the two series

relax friends

>>25076034
That's not entirely accurate.
Pokemon are sort of animal stand-ins but Pokemon are a different entity from animals in canon. The games make several references to real world animals, and I'm not talking about colloquial sayings. Things like pokedex entries, butterflies, and eating real world fish. They're just off-screen and not important to gameplay so don't show up.

You're not accounting for object mons and ghosts in Pokemon either. It's kind of lame that a lot of the fanbase isn't keeping this in mind. No wonder they flip their shit when a pocket monster is not a pocket animal (I.E. klefki).

I kind of get what they were going for as pokemon does have a more feral and dangerous megafauna feel to it, but the statements made aren't exactly true.

>>25078097
See >>25075152

>>25075442
I only see Brook with Spongebob's wig...