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You're forgetting that Nintendo was still the newcomer during this era. If they screwed up with something financially it could have hurt them far worse than the N64 and GC did riding on the success of their previous consoles.
Sorry, you're demanding a ridiculous request that would most likely have cost Nintendo far more money and time than it would be worth.
Lol omg damn Pokemon(so overrated, but so was the anime to begin with), It's not even the best franchise of its genre. I hate Pokemon so much, but it evidently gets the kiddies begging mommy, and daddy to buy them the game(and due to the care bares nature, parents are more then happy to oblige them).Quote:
Originally Posted by combofriend
To trekkies: From hindsight we know they had nothing to worry about(finding one or two major bugs, and forcing developers just to hash those out, lol wouldn't have made developers go oh no, I might as well not make the game), however that in theory could be a reason Nintendo didn't impliment such, however It's more likely it never crossed their mind(as in theory just having lic fees should've stopped that as well, not just stop clones).
You do realize the games came first right? And there are plenty of older people who play the games. Heck almost every time I'd walk around my college campus I usually saw at least 10 or so people playing Pokemon on their DS.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zoltor
Did it. Also yes I know, but that's only because they haven't played games like the DWM games, and the SMT games for example(the real DWM games got like no advertising outside Japan, and the Pokemon advertising is so huge it overshadows any adverting done for other games/franchises).Quote:
Originally Posted by TrekkiesUnite118
Especially in the late 90s/early 2000 you couldn't go even 5min without seeing a commecial or hearing someone talk about pokemon(hell even Bill Cosby had to use it in bhis gig, what was it, kids say the darnest things or something like that).
Yeah, the Pokemon games came out around 1996 in Japan if I remember correctly. The Anime didn't come around until 1998. And what are the DWM and SMT games? I've never heard of those acronyms before.
As for Pokemon being popular, it's probably because the games use a rather original and brilliant formula that really draws the player in and makes it feel as though they are actually the character in the game they control. It's not like other RPGs where it's simply you playing the game's preselected party at a certain state, your party is 100% customizable. Your party is truly your party and unique to you. Throw in the addictive nature of the game, the collecting aspect, and the competitive battling aspect and you have a really great and competitive game for all ages.
Oh ok.Quote:
Originally Posted by TrekkiesUnite118
I rest my case.
DWM= Dragon Warrior(Quest in Japan) Monsters, and SMT=Shim Megami Tensei
Yea such marketing has never been seen before, that's for sure(It's marketing on overdrive, they market in every cene that was big, MtG was huge, they came out with a Card game verion, beany baby type things were big, they did that too, exc).Quote:
Originally Posted by combofriend
I would have recognized those games had you called them what everyone else calls them.
And really all that merchandise arose because of the game, not to help sell the game. The games were already popular and selling before the Anime and the Card game and all the toys started to come out.
"Everyone" called the shin Megami games SMT, and about atleast half of the people use the DWM to refer to Dragon Warrior Monsters.Quote:
Originally Posted by TrekkiesUnite118
Yea I know, but inturn that also made the games that came after them more popular as well.
Absolutely. But it's after the TV show came part of the big picture that the $$$ really started pouring in. Nowadays the non-game sides of the series are less important, but on the other hand now Pokémon doesn't dominate so much of Nintendo's income either.Quote:
Originally Posted by TrekkiesUnite118
Probably... I guess this kind of information would be available in Nintendo's annual reports if we actually wanted to check?
Everyone I know who plays Shin Megami Tensei calles them Shin Megami Tensei or what the individual games are called. Never seen it referred to as SMT. As for Dragon Warrior, Hasn't it been called DragonQuest since the PS1 days now?
DWM predates the PS1/when Square bought the riths to use the Dragon Quest name in NA, and no real fan of the series(unless you're from Japan), uses Dragon Quest Monsters, as it leaves a bad taste in our mouths from how Square utterly destroyed the franchise with that joke of a game, DQM: Joker(sigh Square loves making crappy spin-offs of great spin-offs, and then making sequels to the bad spin-off). Well atleast the title fits the game(they got something right).Quote:
Originally Posted by TrekkiesUnite118
There's a Mega CD port? Well anyway not that I know of(I would've probally known about it, if it was localized, not to mention ATLUS doesn't have a branch in EU), but I'm pretty sure there's a fan translation of the original SFC game that started it all.Quote:
Originally Posted by combofriend
Don't worry, it going to pick up
The Mega CD version isn't necessarily a port like the PC-Engine version, its more of an enhanced remake.
Still the SNES game isn't the first game in the series. There are games going back to the NES that are part of the series. The SNES one is just the first one to be called Shin Megami Tensei. Before that they were just Megami Tensei.