He was the one who used the word "dumb". Perhaps I should've put part in quotations, I was just playing off what he was saying, not insulting them myself.
You did.
Game Freak can't lose something they don't already have, can they?
No, no, no, you're not getting it. I'm not saying these people
don't buy their games, I'm saying they
won't buy their games. In other words, they've bought past games, are unhappy with them, and are not interested in USUM or any further casual focused games.
Anyway, this is a lot of unnecessary debate on whether the people on YouTube matter. There are occasions where they do, to some degree. They don't, in this case. You can continue not sneezing at your 25% dislike ratio. Ultimately it will continue not mattering, I think.
They're a reflection of what's happening in the fanbase. It shows that there's a large percentage of fans that are unhappy. There's also other factors that would cover the fans that didn't watch the Youtube videos. In USUM's case, third versions are historically low selling, they're not marketing the game for very long, and there's newer hardware out now overshadowing this release. For the Switch and beyond, you have to consider who's buying a Switch. The casual gamers that Game Freak are obsessed with are probably not buying a Switch (and probably weren't as much of a factor in the 3DS as they believed, but Game Freak needs to figure that out themselves), most of that audience is firmly entrenched in mobile and not really interested in buying gaming focused device and a Pokemon game to go along with it, it's hard enough to get this group to pay $5 for a game let alone $360. Out of the gamers that actually ARE interested in a Switch, most of them likely will raise their expectations for a console Pokemon game since the hardware is capable of much more and the console audience values size, scale, and freedom.
