Taken from IM PLAYIN:
"But that feeling got me thinking about the power of nostalgia. Bethesda utilised it for the re-master of Skyrim. Activision are banking on it for the success of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. They even used it with PlayStation, in their most recent marketing campaign for the game. Nostalgia is a constant in the video-game industry – even when it’s not directly obvious, or even intended."
The official Pokemon Trading Card Game and Pokemon Stadium 2 are joining the Nintendo Switch Online library today, on August 8.
The Pokémon Company has updated its website with some fresh figures relating to its behemoth franchise.
Chiefly, software shipments for Pokémon have now reached over 480 million units as of the end of March 2023. This is a remarkable increase of 40 million over the previous year. The majority of this will have come from the most recent mainline entries, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. The open-world games sold an incredible 10 million copies within just three days and 20 million in six weeks.
Every Pokémon trainer's journey begins with the difficult choice of Starter Pokémon. CGM has compiled a list of all the very best ones to choose no matter which game you start with.
In the terms of advertisement, I wholeheartedly agree that nostalgia is the new craze that gaming companies are using to sell their products. However for remasters and backwards compatibility, the scales tips more to better performance of their favourite games and convenience of not having multiple consoles to play said games. Not every interest to play past games are due to nostalgia because there tons of titles that publicly considered timeless due to how they have changed the gaming landscape and they are still fun to play to this day.