>pokemon hasn't been declining in quality since the switch era and causing longtime fans to drop off and stop consoom-ACK!
>pokemon hasn't been declining in quality since the switch era and causing longtime fans to drop off and stop consoom-ACK!
>pokemon hasn't been declining in quality since the switch era and causing longtime fans to drop off and stop consoom-ACK!
Why do people have to be so dramatic with this shit. Just stop playing the new games and move on with your life, my god.
Because it’s important to call you a fricking homosexual for unironically playing and defending kusoge, you fricking homosexual. Total brandBlack person death.
Because that's how people are with the things that are sentimental to them you fricking autist lmao.
Are you THAT divorced from emotions that you really can't try and think about it from their perspective?
Sure, to some of us it's "just" Pokemon, it's just some stupid kiddie shit, but to them it's as important as something that you built your childhood around. For some people it's a game, for some a show, for some music/a musician/a song/for some a movie, for some it's a lived experience. Either way everyone has that something that defined them as a person during their youth, something they built a special connection with. Losing that connection or your love for that thing is pretty sucky no matter what it is, chances are you'll never find something you love quite as much as that thing again. Life is a hell of a lot easier when you have an autistic obsession to throw yourself into with reckless abandon.
I get that, it's fine to have your obsessions. All I'm saying is, don't make your whole personality just "I'm hyper into a franchise".
Why are new games sentimental to you?
>Because that's how people are with the things that are sentimental to them you fricking autist lmao
Anon clearly knows that, it's just that POKEMON being the thing that is sentimental to someone to this extent is fricking laughable.
>DS zoomer
don’t care
There is no "downfall" from TPC, Game Freak, and Nintendo's perspective. Pokemon is making them more money than ever.
>DS chad
Now I care
You can see where the polish comes off with Black and White 2, where there isn't that yearlong gap for Japanese players to find glitches that get fixed for the western release.
I hope I die in a genocide rather than some stupid boring shit.
>Doesn't wanna die in a epic showdown with enemy forces
Weak
>start video
>some moronic dumb blog about his childhood instead of getting to the point
>close video
Why is it always DStards who make this stupid melodramatic shit?
Pity points to try to rally people into siding with them
I guess it worked, I remember when the video came out a bunch of people were supportive. I really do not like these "new pokemon bad, DS pokemon good" videos so many zoomers and people who fell out of the game take it as word of God.
>b***h starts whining about how life was hard cause his dad had to work a lot for a few years
boo hoo. my dad was a child sex trafficker and a drug dealer and i still don't make tired 40 minute rants about pokemon that somehow still fail to articulate what sucks about pokemon now even though it's obvious after playing for an hour
>my dad was a child sex trafficker
Average Clair fan
not me tho i was fine but he did some shady shit overseas with women of questionable age idk for sure
but his dad used to go overseas to see young boys too so
she's "literally me"
> she's "literally me"
She’s a woman though
its never confirmed that she isn't a mentally ill man larping as a woman so it still could be me
>she's "literally me"
An insufferable bratty b***h?
yeah thats what i was implying
Your dad is Andrew Tate?
Working double shifts is not normal
Before this video I was subbed, I unsubbed and do not plan to watch his videos if he is going to be so gay about something as petty as PLA being mainline.
Yeah thats really funny since PLA is the only switch pokemon worth playing
I noticed in general it's only DStards who ever think PLA is bad.
Anyone who's been playing the series since Gen 1 knows PLA is by far the best innovation of Pokemon's gameplay since the series' inception but DStards are genuinely delusional enough that they think the fricking reskinned Game Boy gameplay where you do nothing but walk through hallways while sweeping shitty npc trainers standing on the sides and running in circles in to trigger random encounters is well crafted gameplay and not just Game Freak being fricking lazy. It's hilarious.
DSgays love PLA what are you on about? SwSh and SV are the ones they despise.
He's always agendaposting against the DS games, just ignore it.
>DSgays love PLA
lurk more
the anon who spouts "DStards" is either yawngay or somebody else copying his posting style
PLAgays typically say that PLA is best game on the switch, the best game since BW2 or something of the like so if anything there's a big overlap between DSgays and PLAgays
lurk more
Yes, Pokemon has declined in quality and will probably continue to do so until a game genuinely flops, until which I'll stick to Pokemon Showdown, I don't need some literally who youtuber to spend 5 hours explaining to me that, I'm not a braindead american zoomer incapable of forming opinions of my own.
People still did not realized that while Pokemon is good "for now", the constant criticism, poorly accepted projects and advancements from all kinds of concurent franchises slowly but surely erode their consumer base. There's only that much time till all these 30+yo millenials will be gone and new generations have less and less nostalgia for Pokemon. It also does not help that lately we see signs of certain ppl that are well known for ruining franchises getting involved in Pokemon.
Maybe Pokemon will be fine for next few years or so but reality is that it will just be going down unless something major will change. I don't see this behemoth of a franchise being sustainable long term.
Their consumer base is moron kids, invested c**ts like those here and casualgay adults who don't waste their time writing chapter and verse about "how pogymans is bad and dying now i gru up" like you c**ts desperately believe.
Dexit saw an INCREASE in unit sales for a new Gen for the first time since 2006. The last two new Gen games have broken late-pokémania sales marks that no homosexual here thought the series would possibly be ever able to do since the death of Pokémania and you dumb bastards think it's going to erode away, when they've gone nearly 30 years shilling at kids only and growing ever bigger?
moronic kids and casualgays are most volatile groups of consumers and invested homosexuals can stay invested for that long till life will b***hslap them with mortgage, family expenses and other crap. And yes while the two last games somehow B R O K E T E H R E C O R D S, they also were universally considered controversial at best and extremely flawed at worst. In long terms that's not good because you can shit out low quality crap only that many times till everybody will leave. Pokemon needs a genuinely strong title. Not only strong in meaningless numbers but as a good fricking game.
But tbh considering that you sperg out about dexit out of nowhere like it'd the worst thing with current games I suspect that you're just another blind shill.
Scarlet and violet were so shit even my cousin (a total normie) wanted to tell me about palworld. I really hope this is the straw that breaks the camels back and they will finally see punishment in terms of sales as there is actual competition
You're ignoring two things - they're still growing a fleet of kids with nu-pokémon games that will grow up knowing no different and the only ones who will leave are those who'd have left regardless (like you should have, but instead of limpeting onto their childhood toy, they'll let it go and actually move on, instead of seething like morons the game won't change itself to suit them).
And then of course the utter casualgays who see pokémon, get happy chemicals released in their brains, buy game, play game, enjoy game, move on with life till next game. They're still going to be here.
>they're still growing a fleet of kids with nu-pokémon games
What kid will look back fondly at fricking SwSh or SV even as a kid. Even I knew when games were bad as a kid, even the pokemon anime is shit from what ive seen. Even games like Sun and moon had some charm.
Nostalgia is very powerful, anon. I also look fondly back on some games I played when I was very little even though I know now they are shit.
The same type of kid who looks back fondly on RSE, despite that being one of the lowlights of the series.
The bit you're missing is you're not them. So your opinions are irrelevant to their future nostalgia, you moronic geebag.
It's not 90s, boomer.
The "fleet of kids" nowadays have half a dozen of experiences to choose from. Unless parent is a total psycho literally locking their children in a room full of Pikaisraelite plushies for 20h a day children will know better. And this kind of extreme parents forcing their own obsessions on children while certainly exist is rare, generally frowned upon and tends to raise kids that HATE stuff for being forced on them.
If parents forcing Pokemon on kids is supposed ro be some magical save fo this franchise then Pokemon will be as popular among children as fish oil, eating veggies and going to bed before 9:00 pm.
way more than half a dozen*
I blame millennials for buying shit games because of nostalgia and rewarding bad behavior
Nah a good amount of pokemons fanbase are manchildren who buy bad games because they are consumers
>Dexit saw an INCREASE in unit sales for a new Gen for the first time since 2006
That's because the switch is huge especially in Japan
>That's because the switch is huge especially in Japan
nta but that really isn't an excuse for the increase. The DS sold almost twice of what the GBA sold but DP only ended up with 18 million to RSE's 15 million. At the time of SwSh's launch the Switch hadn't even sold as much as the 3DS did (52 million vs the 3DS' 75 million) yet it had the strongest opening weekend for the series past the Pokemania era and outsold every gen from 5 onwards in a manner of months. You can't say "muh lockdowns" either, it came out months before those started and by then its sales were already slowing down, the bump was marginal at best.
Well the switch has sold better in Japan than the DS (surprisingly) and yes SwSh sold well because it was the first home console Pokémon game ever, on top of the fact a lot of people who haven't played in years wanted to get back into the franchise
SV has sold just 1.81m less than SS's total to-date of 26.17m though. If SS's bump came from "the first pogeymans on home systems", how did SV get almost as much in a far quicker timeframe? (SS's total is the most recently updated one, not the total at SV's launch.)
Because the switch now has a larger install base and its Pokémon during the middle to end of a popular consoles life cycle
>and its Pokémon during the middle to end of a popular consoles life cycle
Don't Pokmemon games sell way worse then? Like, BW and SM come to mind, but Crystal and Emerald also have fairly poor sales in comparison. So why is SV selling well still? Hell, shit like Legends Arceus is inching closer to selling better than BDSP, there has to be some reason. Maybe SS and BDSP were bad and they're selling worse because of it, I dunno.
There's no drop-off because they're not releasing on portable-only consoles any more anon. GB was dead by time Crystal launched, so no-one bought it. GBA was dead by time Emerald released and Gen 4 was supposed to be 2005, so no-one bought that. DS was dead by time Gen 5 launched (in the west anyway) and 2m decided to not buy it because "iT sHoUlD hAvE bEeN oN 3dS". SM sold a kick in the arse less than XY (off top of my head XY had 16.5 and SM had 16.32 or something) because Nintendo hadn't revealed the new console to take over from 3DS then and since, it's a home hardware unit - meaning the people who bought it in Gen 8 will likely be receptive to buying Gen 9 because the factors that affected previous Gens don't apply to the jump from 8 to 9.
Then what's SV's excuse for outpacing even SwSh? It's no longer the first home console Pokemon, and if SwSh's rep was anything to go by it should've turned off the fickle normalgays who only hopped on to get re-acquainted.
My best friend is a massive Pokemongay who liked SV despite it's shitty performance and even he was talking about Palworld. It's indicative of nothing but the fact that it penetrated the zeitgeist and became the big thing people were talking about for a while.
>outpacing even SwSh
I doubt SV will outsell SwSh
>SwSh's rep was anything to go by it should've turned off the fickle normalgays
You average normies doesn't know what dexit is and like I said it has a much larger install base now
>he was talking about Palworld
Good I hope this turns off norimes form the new games and gayfreak might actually have to compete for once
>I doubt SV will outsell SwSh
It's got another two years though. Gen 10 isn't happening until 2026, L: Z-A most likely won't have VGC, ergo SV will be *the* vgc game until the new Gen. Aand as long as there's no release to replace it as focus for VGC, it's going to continue to sell. You're moronic if you think it won't pick up 2m in less than 2 years.
Doubt it and I hope not
yeah but the kid will have better things to rot his brain with like tiktok
RSE were on the GBA and were decent RPG's and games for the system and had a whole anime to go along with it I doubt you're average tiktok kid will give two shits about pokemon when hes older
There you go with that projection again. They were the best-selling games on a nintendo system anon. Which is indicative of the normalgays not actually buying the system and the most valuable market was kids (the highest selling Mario game on the system only sold 5m. Beaten by ALL of pokémon, even the second-lowest selling mainline title in series history in Emerald. Casuals didn't buy it and kids were too niche of a market to shill at).
>Doubt it and I hope not
Like I said, you're moronic if you actually think that.
>I doubt SV will outsell SwSh
It depends on any number of factors. It has about 2 million to go and has to compete against Legends ZA coming next year, yes, but if the Switch 2 is backcompat and it stays the "main" game until Gen 10 launch (which everyone is hoping will be 2026 at the earliest to both allow more time for dev and line up with the anni, though they could launch it same year as ZA like they did with SV) then it could totally leg past it. People seem to be forgetting that SwSh legged it's last 1-2 mill in the wake of BDSP and Legends' release cycles.
>You average normies doesn't know what dexit is and like I said it has a much larger install base now
So SwSh sold because it was the first home console game, and SV sold because despite the previous games' controversy normies didn't actually care and it's also going to a larger install base. Next you're gonna say that SwSh and SV's sales were actually bad because one game didn't sell half a gorillion like New Horizons.
>Good I hope this turns off norimes form the new games and gayfreak might actually have to compete for once
I guaran-fricking-TEE you that people who bought Palworld because they hate Pokemon's direction/wanted to make some "statement" versus those who bought it because they saw a streamer play it or it's the funny "pokemon with guns" game is like 1:99.
>bought Palworld because they hate Pokemon's direction/wanted to make some "statement" versus those who bought it because they saw a streamer
Even norimes know about palworld and it had the second highest player count in history I dont think even normies can put up with this shit for much longer
Give you two reasons why it won't. What's its playercount right this minute and when is 12's a 7's rating which pokémon seeks?
>rating 12
eurogay detected I can download COD on my phone parents dont give a shit what their children play
I dont think kids are the ones playing these games they have other shit to play on their phones
When it comes to buying games on Nintendo systems it does. And I know plenty of parents monitor their kids' gametime and games, just because your parents were boomer fricks doesn't mean my generation follow their example. I was raised by boomers too, but I'm of a modern generation and it's my Gen supporting Game Freak's kid-targeting efforts now by having kids ripe for their games. Times are changing son, modern parenting is now adapting to modern problems.
My parents were very protective over what I played and they were boomers but thats besides the point if you have ever seen you're average kid they are glued to the iPad because there parents dont want to deal with them
Yes? Why do you think someone playing Palworld instantly means they fricking hate Pokemon or some shit, though? Once again, my friend played it and, last I checked, he's still a Pokemon fan (and he's not even a shill either, a lot of our talks over the series from SwSh to BDSP were about how many flaws the games had until Legends came out and we got to be positive about a game again). You thinkinh that people can only be binary, black and white "if I like/play X thing I must hate/not play Y thing" is more indicative of your terminally online ass staying in a bubble than it is of any sort of reality. How much overlap you do you think PC users picking up a survival crafting game with NotPokemon basically plastered on top even has with the kind of person to regularly buy the actual games?
I never said that somebody buying palworld would make them into pokemon haters but I might turn a good amount of people off the the next games when they know there is better or at least experience how shit SV were
No, it won't. The kids who think that's some kind of dealbreaker will leave, true (or sit crying endlessly online about them) but that's nowhere near the level of "impact future sales of the kiddy game series" that you're wishing for, because that's utterly moronic and unrealistic.
If all their missteps over the years (and not just "we dunno how to make 3D games for a home system, so bear with us while we learn") tanked the brand in any way, shape or form, this latest set oof throuble won't do it either. Just go frick off an play a game for an adult, if you REALLY want the kiddy game to care about adults. Be quicker than getting a change.
The only way I can see a kid getting into pokemon nowadays is if there parents give it to them on the switch because they played it as a kid or they watched the anime but now that kids are all on tiktok and the pokemon anime is bad (at least from what I heard I stopped watching during XYZ) because what kid is recommending Pokémon to his friends when the games are this fricking bad or they can play something better on their smartphone?
>might turn a good amount of people off the the next games
Once again, how big do you think the overlap is? Do you seriously think people are going to go into the next games wondering why they can't put Pikachu to work mining, craft AK-47s, and butcher Gogoat for it's meats?
No but I do think a good amount of people wont buy the new one when the last one wasn't any good, like you cant tell me a game that can barley reach 20 fps looks good even to a norime
>No but I do think a good amount of people wont buy the new one when the last one wasn't any good
We JUST fricking went over how this wasn't the case for SV (or Legends, OR BDSP for that matter) you mongoloid, keep up.
SwSh were bad games buy that played fine
BSDP were shit but thats an actual case of nostalgia gays
SV were somehow worse than SwSh and ran bad as well and sold well because the switch was established
>okay this game is bad, and this game is bad, but this game is ALSO bad and that'll REALLY do them in this time, you'll see!
SWSH are only better in the performance category and even then the wild areas are trash. Otherwise SV is a better game
how are SwSh bad games?
I bought Palworld because it's everything I've ever could have wanted in an open world Pokemon game. Legends Arceus doesn't even come close. I'm still having fun with Palworld too. The base building is incredibly addicting and satisfying.
With that said, I will never "want" Pokemon to fail. I love Pokemon. But at the same time, I do not support mediocre products or bad business practices. I didn't want Scarlet/Violet to be trash. I don't want the new Pokemon games to be trash. One of the reasons I am very happy about Palworld's success is that it gave me a sliver of hope that it'll maybe kick TPC out of its complacency and, hopefully, make them step up their game in terms of product quality. Only time will tell.
>I love Pokemon. But at the same time, I do not support mediocre products or bad business practices
Yet you bought an alpha early access release, supporting a mediocre product and bad business practices. Just say you're not buying pogeymans again till they suck your dick like the rest the manchildren,
>I bought Palworld because it's everything I've ever could have wanted in an open world Pokemon game.
A game with nothing to do except farming resources?
> The base building is incredibly addicting and satisfying.
Why would I want to build bases in Pokemon? It's like the picnics or Pokemon Amie, something that's there simply to waste your time.
This is one of Pokemon's biggest issues, it's not just that Game Freak are atrocious developers, it's that what the Pokemon fanbase would like is just a different flavor of shit.
Game Freak should be Nintendo's Rockstar, and Pokemon should be Nintendo's GTA and Red Dead Redemption, it should have the best graphics of whatever platform it comes out on. If it's on the Switch it should mog Tears of the Kingdom, if it's on the PS5 it should make Horizon look like an indie game and if it's on PC it should be the second coming of Crysis.
It should have the most detailed open worlds in the industry and should be doing it's own thing, not chase gimmicks other Triple As shit out again and again, such as mechanics that only exist to waste your time like resource gathering.
Anything less than that is a failure for the biggest franchise of all.
Nintendo don't want to be snoybox moron. When the other two were breaking their necks to try and one up the other, Nintendo took their most expensive failure to date and made their most successful home console to date, made innovations on what could be done in a game world then went back and teabagged the industry for giggles with a sequel. Because they didn't have to care about making it look hyper-super-duper realistic (trademark) and could use their time to actually make something fun, compelling and user-engaging.
Or you can just watch a movie on your entertainment box and press a button to advance the story then cry the video game company concentrates on releasing games.
I'm not saying they should be movies, I'm saying Pokemon should be the best looking and have the best open world on whatever platform it comes out on.
>I doubt SV will outsell SwSh
People said the same thing about MK8D and it beat SMB1 as the best selling Mario game.
Bullshit, wouldn't have an 8m jump from 3DS to Switch, would have been that many "manchildren who buy bad games because they are consumers" buying the 3DS games, the DS games and the GBA games.
But there wasn't because there was no must-have console it appeared on past Game Boy till Switch, when everyone came back because it's not paying over the odds for a pogeymans machine. This is a normalgay bump and since Nintendo killed the portable hardware division, Pokémon's here to stay on home hardware.
I disagree I heard tons of manchilden who haven't played Pokémon in years getting SwSh because it was popular on social media
Yeah, because the switch was popular on social media too. "oh, there's actually people having fun with this now, i need to cadge in". If they *were* manchildren, particularly of the "omg pogeymans111!" type like you homosexuals bogeyman they'd have a Switch for LGPE to go along with their SMUSM games and 3DS.
Just proving my point homosexual.
Its more along the line of nostalgia millennials that played pokemon the GBA and seeing it online and go out to buy it
And "hearing about tons of people" is apparently enough proof for the brainlets that have taken over Ganker in the past 6 years, the same people that go around "proving things" via Twitter screencaps.
A lot of those 30+ year olds have kids that they've pretty much raised on Pokemon. These are 10-12 year old kids that are already obsessed with Pokemon.
>5k subscribers
Frick off shilling your own channel.
>since switch era
It started declining with Sun/Moon and I will die on that hill. SwSh was just a new low for them and SV is on the same level if not worse depending on how you look at it
Sun/Moon were actually okay games for the 3ds but needed some work
it started declining with XY
it started declining with BW
it started declining with DP
You really want to start this, it all started with either Blue or Yellow (pick your poison). A rehash shat out to keep Nintendo off their backs, while they shit themselves trying to make the sequel.
I feel like Yellow would be more of the downfall over Blue. Blue was at least made to address bugs and shit, hut Yellow was made to have something while Gold and Silver finish and to tie into the anime. It was made purely to cash in.
eh, i was never a big fan
i simply loved the aesthetics of the ds games and immediately lost interest when xy came out
but i also liked the way sun moon looked, so i got back to playing them
that's really it
desu, i wouldn't even call myself a pokemon fan
pokemon is simply a decent monster collector rpg
i have already locked my sights on other interesting and high quality monster collectors
Why is pikachu’s mouth upside down? I mean I get that it’s supposed to be a frown but the kinda cat mouthy part should still be on top. Lazy.
>"3D bad DS good"
>"Let me explain this bullshit sob story about how the switch killed my family and raped my couch"
Every single fricking video essay on modern pokemon is the same shit.
It sells like crazy still
No one has stopped consuming it
>on switch alone pokémon games have sold 100+ million
keep coping and seething. lel can't wait for legends z-a
>morons still argue which game started the downfall
They're all the same.
>They're all the same.
But one was original. So if you want to point fingers at what caused the downfall, you surely would start with the first unoriginal game, no?
If they were all the same, people wouldn't be able to have preferences or argue over them in the first place
buy an ad next time
>palworld
ah, yeah, this was a thing that happened.
holy shit what an awful video. he spends the first 8 minutes yapping about his nostalgia playing dpp and bw like anyone gives a frick. then he whines about how swsh and bdsp because it has no voice acting and bad graphics like they should have created his perfect pokemon game. then he incorrectly says pokemon in home are deleted if you don't pay and that pla is a spin off before ending the video by wanking off hgss and crying that he doesn't care about pokemon anymore just like he doesn't care for the wiggles or thomas the train. I saved you from clicking on the video. I was skipping through the video waiting for him to make a point more than I listened to it.
>Pokémon hasn't been declining in quality since the switch era and causing longtime fans to drop off and stop consoom
true
not everything needs to be a video essay, sometimes you just don't care about something anymore.