Spinoff/Mobile I'm not sure if this qualifies as a previous generation or Pokemon gaming central since Pokemon stadium isn't a mainline game.

[FakeNate0]

Were Pokemon stadium's 1 and 2 for the n64 flops? I would've like to see if they created more Pokemon stadium games for hoenn all the way up to the paldea region with all added features and minigames, but they stopped with gold and silvers Johto gen 2. This is fever dream though and will get messy with all the newer features. Contests (gen3-4.) Megas, z crystal (region exclusive) dynagigamax (region exclusive) hisui forms (a whole other time period) and tera crystalization (region exclusive)

 

[Nah]

Kinda depends on what's considered a flop, which may vary amongst any particular player or developer. Take Monster Hunter Stories for example: the first game only sold about 310,000 units (or like a little more than half a million if you want to be generous), which is either way very much not good for a game that was a part of what was already one of Capcom's most popular series. Yet they bothered to make a second one (which sold a lot better). Or Fire Emblem, where for ~20 years it sold poorly yet every step of the way they still went and made more FE games (and then it happened to work out for them from Awakening onwards). Persona didn't hit its current level of popularity until P5. etc. Though at the same time I imagine that you can find games that were the opposite sort of story.

Pokemon Stadium technically didn't end with with the N64 titles since Battle Revolution was, afaik, little more than Pokemon Stadium by another name, even if that was like 5 generations ago.

 

[FakeNate0]

Oh you mean the Wii title? I personally never seen the GameCube or Wii spinoffs as official stadiums 3 and 4. I've seen battle revolution, but I heard bad reviews of it, that it only focuses on battles. Is this the reason they stopped at sinnoh by the way and didn't continue from unova to current regions? Here, I was thinking spinda forms killed stadium 3. (Fire emblem is a cult classic and has its fair share of fans, obscure, but they do exist despite the franchise being more popular RPG in japan.)

 

[Devalue]

Sold pretty well. Ranked Pokemon Stadium 1 as the #6 best-selling N64 game (counting N64 bundle purchases) and Pokemon Stadium 2 as #18.

Personally considers Pokemon Colosseum and Battle Revolution as games in the same vein. (Disclaimer: Never played them.) Allowed you to transfer your Pokemon from the main games to these games. Focused hard on just battles, just like the Stadium games. Ported the models from Stadium 1 and 2 into Colosseum too. Misses out on (some) rentals and minigames, sure. Traded rentals and minigames for an expanded story mode, for better or for worse.

Reports decent sales numbers for Colosseum. Ranked #9 among all Gamecube titles at 2.41 million sold, just a hair under Pokemon Stadium 2's numbers. Went less well for Battle Revolution. Made it to #41 overall, with 1.95 million sold. Was in a much bigger market, though. Compares unfavorably versus Super Smash Brothers Brawl at #8 with 13.32 million sold.

Doubts much chance for a new Pokemon Stadium. Asks the inevitable question: why was this not in the mainline game? Sold Pokemon Stadium by putting 2D Gameboy sprites into colorful, 3D models on your television. Already appears on your television whenever you want. How are you going to convince Pokemon players to fork over $60 for the main game, $30 for DLC, and (probably) another $60 for slightly fancier battles? Copies over the models from the main game for sure.

Sees only one way forward for a new Pokemon Stadium: battles like the anime. Must look wildly different from the main game, in both models and animation. Imagine a battle with Pikachu versus Machamp. Physically punches Pikachu in the face, not just hovering a fist icon over Pikachu. Freezes the animation with Pikachu in mid-air as you pick its next move.

Would people buy it? Shrugs. Depends if it has a story mode, probably.

(Re: the title. Belongs here in Pokemon Gaming Central, as a spin-off.)