[kaba0]

What I just can’t understand is why pokemon go is not made into a full-blown game? Like, it literally could be the most popular game ever, if only they would take the logic out of one of the nintendo games, and implemented it for pokemon go. It is popular enough as is, but it would literally be a killer combo, and they already have all the logic/datatables/animations/license in place. It might hurt the sales of nintendo hardware, but you would target at least an order of magnitude more customers with it. Add some pay-to-win elements (e.g. full restore could also be bought with real money), but also make them drop, but rarely in the game and you will have insane profits.

But to just throw balls at pokemons, is just a disgrace to the very well made original games.

[numpad0]

> Like, it literally could be the most popular game ever,

The most popular game ever for next 25 years? They have been making and remaking the same game(1996) ad infinitum for longer than Google(1998) existed. They are not going to need that kind of a quick exit path.

[kaba0]

But it shouldn’t have to be an exit path. It could be a game+community in one go, that forever produces profit. Bit like wow and stuff like that, but much more popular.

[morelikeborelax]

Too much control and influence for an American company I expect.

Japanese companies have some behaviour that may seem odd, naive or lacking the best of capitalism, but they are what they are.

Nintendo regularly get this sort of criticism.

The game is also a data collection tool for Niantic, rather that to be a great game. Someone would have to give up control to change it all.

[dagmx]

Perhaps you missed Pokémon Let’s Go (Pikachu/Eevee) on the switch which was Pokémon Yellow with Pokémon Go style gameplay

[lotsoweiners]

But Pokémon Let’s Go doesn’t have the real world component that Pokémon Go has. I think that is what the parent was talking about.