Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Also looking at that chart I'm surprised all the "remakes" didn't do better. FR/LG, HGSS and Omega Ruby/Sapphire all sold relatively well but given they were the remakes of Kanto, Johto and Hoenn you'd think they would have sold better than they did. FR/LG especially given it came out way back in 2004 when Kanto nostalgia would be at its first highest point in the Gen 3 era.

Also the Ruby/Sapphire remakes outselling both FR/LG AND HGSS is a real shock. HGSS was like a dream game remaking the Johto games, yet the Hoenn remakes did better.

It is quite surprising BDSP and even ORAS outsold HGSS. I always read Pokémon fans praising the HGSS games as being peak Pokémon. Personally, I think they're fine but not better than ORAS. Thing is, Johto lives off nostalgia pretty much. It's a flawed region with a rather underwhelming Pokédex. And the best Johto mons can only be obtained late in the game when you're in Kanto already... which makes zero sense. And Johto itself is not much of a full fledged region but more like Kanto extended.

People also say Kanto and Gen I live off nostalgia and that RBY have very flawed mechanics such as psychics being OP... and they're not wrong. But at least Gen I does not have the unbalanced level curve the Gen II games do.

ORAS are the perfect Pokémon remakes for me. They also have a huge Pokédex. Fun fact: ORAS are the reason we never got a Pokémon Z a decade ago or so. ORAS took the developers a long time to finish and quite frankly, it shows. So much content in that game.