It’s most likely the identical motive that dissatisfied followers of different main franchises have issue transitioning to different comparable video games – the issues they dislike about one recreation, whereas vital to them, aren’t as vital general as the entire different issues they do like. It’s extra snug for many gamers to play Pokemon (or Name of Responsibility, FIFA, GTA, or no matter main franchise) and complain than it’s to really step out of their consolation zone and play a competing recreation – particularly if that competing indie recreation doesn’t have the breadth of options or manufacturing worth of Pokemon.
Trade main video games like Pokemon aren’t small undertakings. There’s an enormous quantity of labor that goes into every pokemon recreation. With out comparable budgetary backing and expertise within the discipline, a competitor can’t realistically construct out equally aggressive characteristic units. It goes additional than this, although – Pokemon isn’t a stationary goal. Each new mainline recreation launch brings new options, new gameplay, new story, new areas, and likewise brings again loads of nostalgic content material as effectively. Moreover, new Pokemon video games get constructed with the entire expertise, instruments, and experience of the predecessors – they’ve loads of collective expertise constructing Pokemon video games {that a} new competitor would possible lack. All of those elements put collectively signifies that any competitor aiming to take down the chief is just not aiming at a stationary goal, however a shifting goal – one which has a lead and is constant to push ahead. That is what makes trade main franchises so tough for a “killer” competitor to dethrone – it requires an amazing quantity of effort and sources to catch as much as, not to mention surpass, a market chief.
There’s additionally the mentality side of issues – human brains are inclined to dislike change fairly a bit. The proportion of gamers who threaten to stop a selected recreation and truly comply with by means of is considerably smaller than the share of gamers who stop taking part in for different causes. A lot of the time, even when the participant does change to a brand new recreation, the general scale of the modifications to adapt to and incapacity for opponents to supply the consistency, manufacturing worth, and scope of content material that the franchise chief can often leads to the participant returning to the unique franchise on the subsequent main product launch. These gamers typically enter a go away/return cycle, the place they’ll play for some time, go away, after which return on the subsequent main launch.
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