is there only one store in the entire pokemon world

[uncutpokemon]

is it just me, or does it seem like the poke-mart is the only store out there? i mean yeah there are other other companies out there like Silph-Co and such, but it seems that the poke-mart is the only place to sell stuff, they have no competition to keep their prices low (no wonder a plain old pokeball costs $200) who is there competition? there's no other stores that sell the stuff at a different price.

 

[llxwarbirdxll]

There probably is. But adding a several types of stores would just take too much time
and wouldn't make such a significant impact on the game.
And besides, I don't think people would want to see a Wal-Mart inside of a game.

 

[Happy Mask Man]

Well, there are the department stores and the open air market in Slateport City. Oh, and I think that the money in Pokémon is supposed to be more like yen than dollars.

 

[Transfinite]

It's not $200, it's 200 yen, which is closer to two dollars.

 

[The Outrage]

Yen is with a "Y", the Pokecurrency has a "P" on it. Most people have just called it Pokedollars due to Colloseum, but we can assume that it is no where as powerful as the American Dollar for example. Anyone know the conversion from Yen to Dollar?

There are also dozens of places to shop featured in the game such as:

There are Herb shops in Celestic and Lavaridge town.

Department stores in their largest towns and cities.

Furniture store in Fortree city

A Flee Market on Slateport

A Small store on Two Island.

There are a lot more places to shop than the Pokemarts, and probably a lot more than they show in the game but wont show because it will be nothing but a waste of space.

 

[Happy Mask Man]

Actually, the Japanese games use the standard Japanese yen symbol (円). One yen is a bit less than one US cent.

 

[Surgo]

This is one of those things that you have to take in terms of a literary analysis instead of a straight "scientific"-type analysis. There's only one kind of store shown because anything else would be extraneous detail in a RPG like pokemon -- the focus is on the world in general, not the variety of stores.

I'm sure there are more than 41 or whatever it was people in the largest city in RBY too, but you just have to take that as a product of the video game representation.

 

[TragicTheDragon]

This is one of those things that you have to take in terms of a literary analysis instead of a straight "scientific"-type analysis. There's only one kind of store shown because anything else would be extraneous detail in a RPG like pokemon -- the focus is on the world in general, not the variety of stores.

That's actually a great answer. Sort of like how there's just the one generic Inn / one generic supply store / a Nurse Joy clone in every town... (wait )

 

[The Outrage]

Those Nurses arent even called Nurse Joy. For all we know they look completely different from each other but all share the same sprite. Bird Keepers and Rockers shared the same overworld sprite in FRLG.

 

[Yamato-san]

Actually, the Japanese games use the standard Japanese yen symbol (円). One yen is a bit less than one US cent.

there are exceptions to this, though. Colosseum and XD, even in the Japanese version, use Pokedollars ポケドル (to answer "L"'s question, Pokedollars seem to get you the same type of stuff as you would with the same amount of yen. I guess, much like Japan's yen in real life, Oure doesn't use an actual cent/dollar system in spite of their currency's name. Either that, or Oure has a pisspoor exchange rate). In Mystery Dungeon, the currency is called "Poke" ポケ, which kinda acts as your typical RPG "gold" (as indicated by the fact that you collect them from goldish coins off the ground).