You can experience so much in Unova you can’t elsewhere. No arguing that the money would have still rolled, but all the same we got the most unique generation to date instead. Just pop in the new sprites, get The Pokémon Company to market a bunch of shirts and plushies, have OLM whip up some time-tested Pocket Monster cartoons and call it a day. Game Freak simply could have opted to utilize the same engine all the fourth generation games used. Regardless of the resulting games, good or bad, established fans and curious kids alike would buy in during its first few weeks of release to justify the production costs, much less how’d much they’d make from merchandising, where the real Poké-profits come from.īlack and White could have coasted on the success of the previous games and the bajillion DS owners hungry for a new game. By late 2010 early 2011, when the games came out in Japan and the rest of the world, Pokémon had already been an international cultural giant for well over a decade. Of course Pokémon Black and White didn’t actually have to compete, mind you. How could Black and White ever compete? Joltik’s an all-timer, but admittedly this could have looked like anything. These 4th Gen gems spread far and wide via the advent of the Nintendo DS’s unbelievable popularity still by far the best-selling hand-held ever. Those less concerned with ‘pro-level’ shenanigans had their prayers answered with the following 4th generation 2nd-Gen remakes Heart Gold and Soul Silver, the most concentrated shot of Pokémon-charm in existence, still excited by many as the crown Pokémon experience. The gen’s third expansion, Platinum, then gifted the flourishing competitive scene hundreds if not thousands of hours of high-level Pokémon play through its many additions.
The previous generation Diamond and Pearl took all that additional depth 3rd Gen introduced to the Pokémon Meta and elevated it to a complex perfection. In some respects, the odds being stacked against the 5th Pocket Monster Generation from the start. Nintendo and Game Freak dolled out the now controversial Pokémon Black and White at a particularly tricky time in the franchise’s history.
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