You guys never account for population inflation in sales data. Also, covid forced everyone to buy terrible videogames...

You guys never account for population inflation in sales data. Also, covid forced everyone to buy terrible videogames. You want to talk about how great SWSH are? Why did VGC get cancelled 3 years in a row?
Why haven't we had a new movie in 2 years?
Why has the merch stalled?

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The worlds over user. I’m right there with you, but I’ve learned to accept everything good is dead. The masses of retards have been devolved to accept even shittier slop from their overlords.

ITT: Doomfags coping

Why don't we count any of this for other games? Why haven't you explained what determines quality?

>You guys never account for population inflation in sales data.
Because it's irrelevant.
>Also, covid forced everyone to buy terrible videogames.
Considering the chip shortage made console hardware impossible to find, this only inflated sales to people with existing consoles which was incredibly minor. PC games inflated way more.
>You want to talk about how great SWSH are? Why did VGC get cancelled 3 years in a row?
Because nobody fucking cares about VGC or competitive battling in general. Why the fuck do you think PLA doesn't even have online battling retard? They finally wised up.
>Why haven't we had a new movie in 2 years?
Because movies in general have been doing fucking horribly since the pandemic dropped retard. It's a bad investment.
>Why has the merch stalled?
It hasn't. Shit on pokemon center is consistently fucking sold out. Cite your source on this one.

If people are still buying it, then quality has not dipped. People don't buy shit.

PvP battling is the entire focal point of this series, along with trading. Nobody cares about anything but those two things.

>Nobody cares about anything but those two things.
And yet PLA is trending to become the second best selling Switch title of all time despite not having online battling. Crazy huh?

Except that's wrong and the sales/reviews of legends proves it

You are absolutely retarded if you think most people who buy the games buy them entirely or even mostly for PvP

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Masuda said years ago that trading and PvP are what people play Pokemon for.

Its cool that you are so used of pokemon games being non games that you use for pvp and breeding, but a lot of people want pokemon games to be actual rpgs games with actual single player content and long story, you know.

And he was totally wrong.

Masuda also said he would never cut Pokemon from the roster and yet here we are. He lies dude, it's what he does.

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A creator can't be wrong about their own product.

pfffftttttttttt this is literally the dumbest fucking thing I've ever seen said on Any Forums

This is going to be the next few weeks of Any Forums isn't it. Retards repeating this over and over thinking it will make it true

Then explain why franchises like Digimon and SMT are dead/dying lmao gotti

Hahaha imagine thinking this

They absolutely can be. If you need another franchise as an example look at World of Warcraft. Also Masuda didn't create Pokemon, Tajiri did. Masuda was just some dude he hired to do music and later programming.

Why are you being retarded on purpose?

If you created something, then you know it better than anyone else. Tajiri's intention was the same;

>Play through the easy as shit main story
>"Replay value" comes in the form of completing the Pokedex, and interacting with other players via trading and PvP

That is how they intended for people to play Pokemon.

This. You guys have to got to learn that game devs are not your friends and are not actually talking sincerely to you about their games because they care so much. He's not making a personal promise there. Public statements like that, it's all just PR pageantry, marketing, glorified advertising. The sooner you learn never to trust any of that shit and take it all with a massive grain of salt the better. Stop acting so betrayed every time it turns out a corporate mouthpiece is concerned with corporate interests and nothing else.

How they intended for people to enjoy it and what people actually enjoy aren't the same thing retard. That's why Animal Crossing changed how shit like tile patterns work.