{"id":83560,"date":"2015-11-13T16:33:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T14:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=83560"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:08:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:08:03","slug":"the-only-game-that-can-face-up-to-pokemon-go-is-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-only-game-that-can-face-up-to-pokemon-go-is-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"The only game that can face up to Pokemon Go is coming soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything seems to point to Pokemon Go being the next great Nintendo game title that nothing can challenge, right? That&#8217;s not quite true. On Friday the 6th of November 2015, North America witnessed the launch by Nintendo of the first game of a franchise that has sold over <strong>2 billion dollars&#8217; worth of games<\/strong>, toys, and much more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This series is called Yo-kai Watch<\/strong>. The aim is to capture ghostly creatures. Does this mission sound familiar? The franchise by Level-5 has been a huge hit in Japan; there&#8217;s anime, films, dances, and toys that sell out in moments.<\/p>\n<p>(You can&#8217;t watch the video? <a title=\"Watch on YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DgFch8WV0dY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> to enjoy it from Youtube)<\/p>\n<p>So you get the idea, the two first Yo-Kai Watch games have sold a combined 8 million copies. A video games analyst called Sartori Bernbeck believes that <strong>the saga can generate hundreds of millions <\/strong>of dollars in the United States alone. Imagine what will happen when it gets to Europe in 2016!<\/p>\n<p>(You can&#8217;t watch the video? <a title=\"Watch on YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vPzyr4mo1c8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> to enjoy it from Youtube)<\/p>\n<p>Until now, whenever Nintendo has had problems, it was the Pokemon franchise that has got it out of trouble. <strong>Will this be its successor?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a title=\"Read the original article\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2015\/11\/06\/nintendos-yo-kai-watch-is-here-is-it-the-next-pokemon\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything seems to point to Pokemon Go being the next great Nintendo game title that nothing can challenge, right? That&#8217;s not quite true. On Friday the 6th of November 2015, North America witnessed the launch by Nintendo of the first game of a franchise that has sold over 2 billion dollars&#8217; worth of games, toys, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-only-game-that-can-face-up-to-pokemon-go-is-coming-soon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The only game that can face up to Pokemon Go is coming soon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":83565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2501],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-83560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionpokemon-go"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329440,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83560\/revisions\/329440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83560"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=83560"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=83560"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=83560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}