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Erm, Pokemon Go was hugely successfully because it has the insanely huge smartphone install base. No matter what they do the Switch will never get anywhere near close to that. They don't need to though, Pokemon games are still massive money makers for them on consoles, hence why I'm also not sure why you think they need to change up the Pokemon formula, especially with anti-consumer bs like microtransactions.

Their teams are smaller (though they were recently hiring HD developers), but Pokemon games are also lower budget. I mean really only the first game in a console generation takes real effort, as the rest of the games on the system heavily re-use the first game's engines n assets, and that's if they're not literally the first game but with slight changes. I have no doubt they'll still be able to apply this strategy for releasing a game almost yearly in the HD era.