A Nintendo Made Pokemon MMORPG?

I just don't understand why Nintendo hasn't done this yet. This could be their biggest money tank, and the death of WOW. Who doesn't want to go online and travel a pokemon world, catching pokemons and socializing. As nerdish as it sounds.... it's brilliant. Again NINTENDO made mmorpg.

Simple: WAY too much time and effort.

Game Freak (aka the people who make Pokemon) is a relatively small development team with only about 66 people.

They already make such MASSIVE profits with Pokemon, why bother investing so much capital in something that isn't guaranteed to be a success?

Case in point: Final Fantasy XIV and Square Enix. Just because it has a big name on the title doesn't mean it will be popular or successful.

Simple: WAY too much time and effort.

Game Freak (aka the people who make Pokemon) is a relatively small development team with only about 66 people.

They already make such MASSIVE profits with Pokemon, why bother investing so much capital in something that isn't guaranteed to be a success?

Case in point: Final Fantasy XIV and Square Enix. Just because it has a big name on the title doesn't mean it will be popular or successful.

peterw007

Every person i know who is a gamer has told me if Nintendo made a pokemon MMO they would play it.

I want one so bad and i would probably never play any other games lol

Yeah, a lot of people I know would be really keen on playing a Pokemon MMORPG - and they themselves don't really game that much, so that's saying quite a lot.

But as is, Pokemon make a lot of money as is. So I can kinda understand why they haven't done it yet.

Because Nintendo doesn't invest heavily on Online stuff. This MMORPG would need a strong network infrastructure to hold it. That is something Nintendo doesn't have on either its handheld consoles or home-based consoles.

Maybe Cafe will aid it? Hope so. Other then that, it would be PC, which I don't see Nintendo ever doing.

I just don't understand why Nintendo hasn't done this yet. This could be their biggest money tank, and the death of WOW. Who doesn't want to go online and travel a pokemon world, catching pokemons and socializing. As nerdish as it sounds.... it's brilliant. Again NINTENDO made mmorpg.

TailBlood

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I just don't understand why Nintendo hasn't done this yet. This could be their biggest money tank, and the death of WOW. Who doesn't want to go online and travel a pokemon world, catching pokemons and socializing. As nerdish as it sounds.... it's brilliant. Again NINTENDO made mmorpg.

Vaasman

It would also require network engineers, community managers, a 5+ year development schedule to execute correctly, and a dedicated team for the game.

Nintendo would have to hire literally hundreds of artists, programmers, and game designers and just to make everything work correctly.

Not to mention it would cost a fortune. Nintendo has never made an MMORPG before and has to design everything from the ground up.

...The core executives at Nintendo (especially Miyamoto) hold all of Nintendo's flagship games to obnoxiously high quality standards.

If the team doesn't absolutely nail the MMORPG, they execs would probably go:

"You guys suck. We have too much honor to release a game as bad as Final Fantasy 14. Scrap the project!"

...and Nintendo would lose millions. See why Nintendo would rather play it safe with what works?

id rather a pokemon rpg travelling the land going to veridian city hell yeah or even a dbz rpg where you are goku and rank up from kid to super sayian. so sick but i dont know how they would handle combat in either game. dbz fighting games suck and i wouldnt want to go back to turn based fights like on the gameboy pokemon

It's too big a risk.

Every person i know who is a gamer has told me if Nintendo made a pokemon MMO they would play it.

I want one so bad and i would probably never play any other games lol

RyanShazam

A F2P Pokemon MMO could really be hugely successful.

Especially if they pull it off like a Facebook game.

The main reason I believe they have not done this is Nintendo's unease about online gaming

Zelda MMO imo (and no, you wouldn't play as Link).

heh, with the japanese devs track record on mmos you may be better off without it.

they don't make mmo because that would decrease their revenue

Necro!!!!

And from a Gamerep no less. :P

hate most of nintendo games and i mean hate,i don't play them i don't have anything to do with them. mario kart is about the only nintendo game i have played in the last 10 years but i wouldn't mind owning a wiiu for pokemon mmorpg.