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Pokémon Has Finally Gone Too Far
The $40 in-game cosmetic item that has left fans stunned
Have you noticed the buzz surrounding the $40 Ninetales skin these past few days? What does this mean? Allow me to explain.
In July of this year, a free-to-play game called ‘Pokemon Unite’ was published by The Pokemon Company on Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.
This release was a first of its kind because it marked the first “free” Pokemon game ever to be released.
The Pokemon Company are infamous for releasing only slightly altered games each year in their decades-long mainline Pokemon series. Where once Pokemon was at the forefront of innovation in 1996, the series has become stagnant and predictable with each entry becoming as uninspired as it is expensive.
(Although we really should have seen how insane it was that The Pokemon Company released two identical games each year at the same time and arbitrarily left items and Pokemon out of each. This caused you to need both games if you wanted to “collect em all” as the company slogan goes. Pretty bad how we never questioned that, and that the tradition carries on to today for no good reason).
But this new free-to-play Pokemon game changed up the formula, causing people to wonder how the money-grubbers at The Pokemon…
