Pokemon Unite announced (League of Pokemon) for Switch and mobile

[Darwinianevolution]

Dulfite said:

Darwinianevolution said:

The way the Pokemon IP is going is heartbreaking. Ever since Go came out, they've been diluting the series to the lowest common denominator, pumping out yearly releases with less and less polish and content and milking the mobile market to no end. And considering this is all going to make them mountain ranges of money, it's all going down from there.

People : Man I wish they would stop making the game games over and over again and innovate!

Developers: Makes Pokemon Stadium, Conquest series, XD Gale of Darkness, Battle Revolution, Trading Card Game series, Play It! Series, pinball series, Mystery Dungeon series, Ranger series, Rumble Series, Snap series, Puzzle series, Pokken Tournament, and a large list of other spinoffs.

These are all different genres of games, appealing to different types of gamers, ranging in hard to easy. They are innovating their IP like crazy. Only their mainline series seems to be stagnant in my opinion. Things like Mystery Dungeon, Detective Pikachu, Pokken Tournament, Conquest, and Snap are all very innovative.

I agree with that, but that's kind of the problem. No matter how innovative the spinoffs are, they aren't really building up the main series. After a while they decided to give and take features from their titles in the efford of making them "unique", which makes them feel weaker and weaker each time, instead of reinforcing the core of the game with all of the content they've created over the years. Things like the pokemon contests, the Battle Frontier, the Vs. Seeker, secret bases, berry farming, rematches against the gym leadrs, different regions in the same game, pokemon world tournament, the GTS... All those things have come and gone for no particularly good reason, when they could've just kept adding them to the games to make them more complete.

And that's not even mentioning the scandalous cuts in Sword/Shield.