Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit

• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Lemmy constantly falls into the same social trap as reddit: that we think we’re some monolith of consumerism and when we believe something we think everyone else will be on our side.

  I dont know why you are whinging about this when literally no one is making this claim. In fact, we are talking about the exact opposite of it.

  Go on YouTube and look up the hundreds of videos from the past few months alone of scalpers and other Pokemon buyers getting into actual physical fights, buying literally 10+ of those huge box sets, and camping out at those vending machines and buying literally everything in them the minute they restock.

  I’m a vendor at comic and anime conventions here in the US. I did a show last month that was literally 99% Pokemon cards and merch, and everyone was buying that shit up regardless. There were actually maybe five booths including my own that weren’t selling just Pokemon stuff, if at all.

  Yes, thats the legions of people we were talking about, before you came in with this weird tangent.

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  • Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I was agreeing with you with my anecdotal experience.

    The comment you replied to said Nintendo is going to lose customers over this, while your comment said Nintendo fans are still gonna be their dumb shitty selves by buying multiple of the same system or even game. Where does my comment diverge from that line of thinking?

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    • Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think they will lose customers over this, sure, but nowhere near enough to make them reconsider being the biggest a-holes in gaming (take that 2nd place, EA)

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      • Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s what I’m saying.

        Am I typing in some alien language?

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• Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t think Nintendo has as many die hards as you think. The wii and switch had over 100 million sales. The wii u had 13 million.

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  Now look at switch game sales, scroll past their major IPs and pokemon games, and once again the sales show around 13 million or less.

  On wii u mario kart had 8 million sales, and not one other game passed 6 million.

  The wii, wii u and switch all had around 3 million sales in their first quarter and didn’t really pass that 13 million mark in their first year.

  If only die hard fans that buy no matter what buy it, I think it absolutely will be a problem for them. And I think it has a real chance of happening. Half my casual gamer friends didn’t even know switch 2 was a thing, and the ones that did know about it said they haven’t seen any reason to get it yet, especially at the prices they’re seeing.

  The reality is, the family and casual markets are what carried them whether they like it or not. Not the rabbid fans. And like with the wii u, if they don’t appeal to those markets properly, they won’t sell well.

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