What will happen to Game Freak and Creatures after Pokemon dies?

[johnr754]

When the series ends, will Pokemon still be remembered, and what will happen to Creatures and Game Freak? And Junichi Masuda, and Satoshi Tajiri, and many other main Pokemon developers? And will Pokemon be happily remembered? And will the video gamers will forget Pokemon and just keep playing COD: MW5? (LOL, just a thing)

 

[zidiane]

I can't say the first thing that comes to mind, because it's rude.

Anyway, no one knows anything for sure, except that they will keep making pokemon until people don't like them anymore. And then, 10 years later, they will be revived, and started all over again.

 

[Oryx]

I think Pokemon won't end before they retire; it will be more like they retire, then Pokemon slowly peters out into a spinoff or two every couple years. My hope is that they don't try to keep Pokemon alive longer than it should be, because that's what causes things to be remembered badly. The last taste of the games that people get are the terrible final games, not the good previous games, so they are much less likely to remember the franchise fondly.

 

[PlatinumDude]

When Pokemon ends, I have a feeling that it will be always remembered through the many games it has been in. GameFreak may end up moving on to other games, and so will some of the people who played Pokemon, though a percentage of them may replay the older games.

 

[Moto2014]

I would expect that people would just continue playing the old games. Pokemon is a very loved game, and people wouldn't just stop playing because they stopped making it. Just look at Zelda. People still play OoT and Majora's Mask from YEARS ago. "You can't beat the classics", and Pokemon is one hell of a classic.

 

[Kenshin5]

I would expect that people would just continue playing the old games. Pokemon is a very loved game, and people wouldn't just stop playing because they stopped making it. Just look at Zelda. People still play OoT and Majora's Mask from YEARS ago. "You can't beat the classics", and Pokemon is one hell of a classic.

Not to mention they remade OoT for 3DS so they are definitely still making money on that game. As well as pumping out new ones like Skyward Sword and this is 25 years later.

If classic franchises like Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda, Metroid, Kirby are still around in this day in age still producing games and they have been around longer then Pokemon then that leaves me to believe we will still be seeing this franchise long to come. As of now they are a profit giant reaching out in multiple facets so if they keep making the profits then they will try to keep working the games in. Honestly I think a lot of causal fans don't even know or care who either Junichi Masuda and Satoshi Tajiri, or at least the young fans. I know when I was a kid all I wanted to do way play with the monsters I didn't even know any of the names across the credit screen. I think it will be happily remember, even if they some how come up with horrible mechanics that screw up later on games, they will still remember early games fondly and the pokemon in them. There will always be that first person shooter crowd, so I doubt they really care that much either way. People still remember Pong after all the decades, so I don't see why they wouldn't remember pokemon after it's span X amount of generations.

 

[Satoshi Ookami]

I think Game Freak either finds new thing to work on or what might be more possible is that someone new appears and become new Satoshi and Junichi =)

 

[Perriechu]

When Pokemon does end, we'll remember it through the mountain of merchandise it left behind, as well as the Anime. People won't forget Pokemon for a long time, they'll be more fangames to continue the series and people replying Pokemon for nostalgia.

Gamefreak will probably move onto its next big money maker.

 

[Influential_Mew]

Pokemon is immortal. They will continue to exist for many years. No?

 

[Mister Coffee]

Ask yourself this, after all these years, has the "Mario" franchise died off? The Pokemon franchise is pretty much just as popular as the Mario franchise, so I really don't see pokemon ever dying off. It's possible for it to die off, but as long as it keeps selling Millions of copies of games, I really just don't see them dying off any time soon.

If it is possible for the series to die off (for whatever reason), I think it will be fondly remembered by it's veteran players and such, but after some time it will quickly be forgotten by new generations of kids playing new and improved games. Although Pokemon does have a cult following, video games on their own become outdated and forgotten very easily just like the progression of computer technology and how it ages quickly.

 

[blue]

Well they have a decent income so I don't see it happening anytime soon.

 

[Snivy063]

Pokemon & Game Freak already made their branches surely a name that each and every person would still remember after it had finished, also I can still see some of us play it over again. :'D

 

[johnr754]

Ask yourself this, after all these years, has the "Mario" franchise died off? The Pokemon franchise is pretty much just as popular as the Mario franchise, so I really don't see pokemon ever dying off. It's possible for it to die off, but as long as it keeps selling Millions of copies of games, I really just don't see them dying off any time soon.

If it is possible for the series to die off (for whatever reason), I think it will be fondly remembered by it's veteran players and such, but after some time it will quickly be forgotten by new generations of kids playing new and improved games. Although Pokemon does have a cult following, video games on their own become outdated and forgotten very easily just like the progression of computer technology and how it ages quickly.

The Mario franchise has lasted for 26 years, and Pokemon has been lasting for 15 years. Yeah, it'll be a long time before Pokemon ends....

 

[shengar]

I doubt it that Pokemon franchise would die out soon. Not in 25 years at least.
You see that Mario franchise is still kicking. A Pokemon that hold much bigger potential than Mario should lasted much longer. The Pokemon universe are expandable and it can adapted to any other media format at will.

 

[Blizz]

I don't want to even think the end of Pokémon but must answer something. I'm sure that Pokémon will last many years. Pokémon sells so good. TGC, games, anime, manga and other merchandise. Pokémon for ever!

 

[sherreamethyst]

I doubt Pokemon will die very soon. Look at LOZ. This year was the 25th anniversary. Pokemon is still only 15 years old, and still very young.

 

[Pixel!]

Sorry,but you're forgetting that int he Mario franchises,they don't have to think of at least 100 Pokemon plus areas and characters a generation.

But I do hope Pokemon will live a long time,and if the worst comes,I hope the fans will remember it by the good times,not the desperate end games or the flaws they have.

 

[Oryx]

But with Mario they have to think up new situations for him to be in, because...the original Mario didn't give them much to go on. They've had to innovate for nearly every single game, something Pokemon doesn't have to do nearly as much, so the comparison may not be perfect but it's not THAT far off.

 

[shengar]

But with Mario they have to think up new situations for him to be in, because...the original Mario didn't give them much to go on. They've had to innovate for nearly every single game, something Pokemon doesn't have to do nearly as much, so the comparison may not be perfect but it's not THAT far off.

So it something like this:
Pokemon----->Have much premises/something to go on, but few innovation each games
Mario---->Doesn't have much premises/nothing to go on, but rich of innovation each games

Right? I agree with this.

 

[jdb1984]

Well, Gamefreak is a second party developer, so Nintendo will probably have more for them to do. Also, they have other games that they work on, including the Kirby and Smash Bros. series.