Even if it's not killing Pokémon, it's a rude awakening for Nintendo and Game Freak. They've been slacking on the quality of recent games and another company came along and showed them how to do it. Hopefully, we can all look back and say palworld was the best thing to happen to Pokémon.
The amount of times someone said palworld is killing pokemon or of the sort. They drop the game a week later. The last time this happened it was about a month then the game died. Now rhe update is out. Its not that bug of an update mind you. Not as big as a whole game releasing i mean. People will play for 2-3 weeks then drop the game till the next update. Yall need to stop click baiting the palworld is killing pokemon agenda.
When was the last time Pokemon had 2 mil active users? They wouldnt release that info. They also dont admit that every update to Pokemon Go/Sword/Shield hasnt been received well. What Palworld definitely has on Pokemon, is graphical fidelity, Way more gameplay mechanics (even if we are just comparing battles), Larger world, better traversal of said world. Pokemon has numbers of Pokemon....and thats about it, one of these games is made by a multi-billion dollar company, the other became a bullion dollar company in 2 weeks and has 50 employees currently, but was created with 6 people. Pokemon had better step it up, or it will die, maybe not to right now (game is still early access), but to the final product of this or the hundreds of devs who played this and went, "yea, I can make this even better".
No Pokemon has been killing itself for years. Pokemon stopped being enjoyable after Gen 3. Simply cause it's all the SAME! They don't change anything. Sure they add a few extra mechanics but everything is still the stupid boring formula as it's always been. The worst part of Pokemon is they continue to target children for the game. They do not care about the true player base which are all adults now. They make the games for simple minded children and give middle finger to the adults that have kept them relevant all this time. Yes children still play but I'd bet the majority of the player base are adults now. Single player is a complete joke. Many don't want to play pvp. They could easily make the games better simply adding a hardmode to the game. Hell add a nuzlocke mode to the games as well and people will buy the crap out of that.
