How is it that every non-Pokémon game they make is less successful than even modest indie game successes?I bet most of you even forgot that Xbox game they were working on
>>59292329why would I care about non-pc non-nintendo games? even nintendo games I pirate on my pc and hopefully a switch2 emulator will be made soon so i dont have to buy it, every single game should release on PC its the bare minimum
They aren't good devs.
>>59292329Because game freak are shit devs. The only reason Pokemon even became popular in the first place is the rabid marketing, the anime, and the insane amounts of merch. The games have always been mid at best and have soured to outright shit TLDR. Pokémon isn’t a game, it’s a vehicle for merch and spinoffs. And game freak arent game develops they’re parasites dragging down TPC
>>59292329They aren't a good studio. They're a studio of glorified YandereDevs who got lucky. Without the Pokemon logo on the box, suddenly everyone can see how shallow, ugly, and poorly-made their games are. Drill Dozer was over 20 years ago and it's still the last non-Pokemon game they've made that's even been passable.
>>59292329tbf Pulseman, Drill Dozer Pocket Card Jockey and Giga Wrecker aren't bad games. I mean, they're not the kind of games you would expect from such a huge company, but they aren't bad by themselves
>>59292523>They're a studio of glorified YandereDevsif else tower YanderCHAD vs 1/256 miss GameFreak virgin.
Because even at the height of their "non-pokémon" content production, it was almost-all shaped to supporting their production of Pokémon. From Tajiri accepting contracts and developing other games to keep the studio alive while they struggled to birth what eventually became Pokémon, to affording staff members with ideas for burner games both a dev team and the budget to explore the concept, to further their staff's video game making experience (pushing people out their "usual" job title into roles they may not have explored without being part of the team making the particular game) and test their capabilities (Turner clearly being pressure-tested for an eventual game direction role, if not lead art director after Sugi's diminishment given he got two Gear Project ideas of his released as full titles and left Game Freak to pull a Tajiri and found his own game studio to direct his third full game idea into a released title eventually). They found an idea and git on it HARD, so clearly don't feel the need to ALSO develop games in concert that do other things, unless it's to help the main series (until we know more about beasts of tsushima, I'm treating it as yet another gear project-esque effort made to better understand working with Switch 2, with the goal to bring that experience to Pokémon from likely Gen 11 on).
>>59292358spbp
>>59292771Imagine if Pulseman became their series, like Capcom with Megaman, and Gen 1 would have remained just a weird experiment, imo it would have been interesting
lack of marketing and the games aren't especially goodbeast is getting a decent push though, maybe about as much as little town hero (lmao)
>>59292329Little Town Hero, a game developed by the developers of the biggest franchise on the planet, a game that has a toby fox soundtrack, only has 13 reviews on steam.
>>59293015Here is the official giga wrecker YouTube channel.https://youtube.com/@gigawrecker7800Look at the subscriber count.
>>59292523What about pulseman?
Their best non-Pokémon game was never released.
>>59293066Forgot linkhttps://youtu.be/OWk1nR92qb0
