| mZuzek said: Also, there is a severe lack of avatars in this thread. |
It's early in the morning, man. XD
About GameFreak, I think it's a combination of their refusal to grow as a studio and mobile suddenly eating their turf.
Pokemon games inevitably get bigger and bigger with the hardware, but GF always makes a similar scale titles by adding and removing features. The closest thing to a fully complete pokemon game is HGSS on the DS, and that's years ago. The excuse of wanting to make every game unique is a copout to avoid putting the efford of having to top that next game.
As for mobile, Pokemon Go made more money than all other pokemon games. Combined. The Pokemon Co. saw the gold mine that was mobile and is going more and more for it. The only reason they are not going full mobile is Nintendo's share on Pokemon's ownership. GameFreak is sweating bullets trying to be relevant on that area, and thus they are hoping for another big hit that makes their position somewhat safer, hence My Little Town. That's also the reason why Pokemon is basically releasing annually too: they need to earn decent amounts of money to not be overshadowed by phone games.
