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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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