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foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Bluefruit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The IPs alone are gold let alone the games they make. Pokemon imo has been subpar for a while and it still prints money. Yea i dont see them selling anytime soon.

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  • Mikelius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Worth more than gold. Pokemon is the single highest grossing IP of ALL TIME

    …wikipedia.org/…/List_of_highest-grossing_media_f…

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    • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pokémon? With the poké and the mon? youtu.be/_kUG-YDcLuw

      I guess that clip is a little dark now that we know what Bill Cosby did to women. And we don’t even know what happened to Mortimer Ichabod Marker.

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    • pineapplepizza@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Interestylist. Supprised Lego is so low.

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    • hansl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For media. I thought the highest grossing general IP was Hello Kitty.

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      • Mikelius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Maybe, I found this image saying it’s still above Hello Kitty, but not sure about the validity - imgur.com/ZEORgkV

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  • darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hot take: the Pokémon games have always been trash, and the version locked exclusives in each generation are day 1 dlc

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    • PoopingCough@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      and the version locked exclusives in each generation are day 1 dlc

      I can see how it would be seen this way, but imo the intention from the beginning wasn’t that people would buy both/all three versions per generation, it was to encourage people to trade with each other. Which absolutely worked when it came out. It was a totally new idea that definitely helped sell more people on the games, because they could connect with friends and trade or battle, with later gens adding even more features for when you connected.

      I could see making the dlc argument these days, but at this point you could also argue it’s just out of tradition.

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    • GhostsAreShitty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I can’t remember ever enjoying a Pokémon game. I think it’s for people who get a dopamine hit from collecting.

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      • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        For me they were always just fun little JRPGs. I usually don’t go collecting all Pokémon. I just have my roster of monsters I regularly use in fights and level up.

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• Cheesus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nintendo has $15B in cash and the company is worth $51B.

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  • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And Microsoft has twice that cash-on-hand if they wanna get wacky and break some anti-trust laws that aren’t enforced anymore.

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    • andysteakfries@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The Japanese government would not allow one of the country’s most cherished brands sold off to one of the worst stewards to gaming’s intellectual property value.

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• joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well as a publicly traded company they are open to hostile take overs. But we have laws for that. Also japan probably has some way to stop it

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The emails also indicate that they know exactly how well loved they would be amongst the public for taking that route. Which is to say they’d join Unity and X for publicity fuckups of their own making.

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