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An interview with the former Nintendo of America, Gail Tilden marketing chief shows that Pokemons western publication was almost very different.
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The American division had thought about giving the game a “coarse -grained” aesthetics, even if you considered changing it into a baseball role -playing game.
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Pokemon's initial success in Japan has prevented the developer from changing the game, with Pokemon becoming a global sensation.
PokemonAccording to an interview with a former boss of Nintendo of America, the original games in the West could have been very different for their first start. The multimedia monster catching franchise has become a global sensation in the almost thirty years since then Pokemon red and green Originally debuted in Japan. The franchise has massive success with everything, from its video games and anime adaptations to the overwhelming popularity of the Pokemon Trading Card game. However, new information show that a first concept for Pokemon could have changed the franchise significantly today.
Pokemon Has seen a variety of different ideas that were examined both within the main series and in the spinoffs. The franchise has experimented with several other genres, what to play racing like how Pokemon dash and strategy games like Pokemon conquest In addition to its standard monster beginner formula. The franchise even added relaxed, lifestyle -oriented games to its repertoire, how Pokemon sleep As a Pokemon-Themzend Sleep Tracker. A current interview reveals that PokemonThe initial western publication would have changed.
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Pokemon was almost a baseball role -playing game in the west
As reported by Nintendolife, a recent interview with the former marketing director Gail Tilden with the former marketing of Nintendo of America reveals a big change that was taken into account by the American division. Tilden announced that Nintendo of America had expressed his doubts about the success of the franchise in the West in view of the strong Japanese characters and concepts. Nintendo of America has supposedly considered changing the aesthetics of the game as “Kießer” and considered whether the main premises were changed by the iconic creatures to a baseball league. However, Tilden confirmed that Nintendo of America quickly scrapped the idea of changing PokemonGiven the Pokemon The explosion of the franchise explosion in Japan.
While PokemonThe potential conversion into a baseball -rpg may seem strange, the franchise was strange for its publication. PokemonThe original publication of the Game Boy came into the original lifespan of the handheld console quite late Pokemon red and blue Start nine years after the game Boy started in the west. PokemonThe overwhelming popularity even served to reinvent the sale of the Game Boy, with the global sale for the first generation of games reaching 31 million copies. The associated commercial card game has also grown into one of the most famous and most respected TCGs in the world.
PokemonThe colossal success in the early days consolidated the franchise as the main support in pop culture, which has remained relevant almost three decades after the debut. PokemonThe recent games of the main professions recorded meteoric sales, which even competed with the early popularity of the series, with Scarlet red and violet The sale of more than 25 million copies in September 2024. The franchise recently also took waves with its anime adaptation, with Pokemon horizons End Ash Ketchums for more than two decades as a protagonist of the anime. While Nintendo of America might have concerned early PokemonThe success of the franchise has certainly spoken for itself.
Pokemon
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Satoshi Tajiri
