Darwinianevolution said:
On the contrary, Pokemon Go swept the legs of the mainline games. When your mobile game makes in a year more money than the entirety of the mainline series COMBINED, priorities were going to be changed in The Pokemon Co. GameFreak was having problems of vision and content since X/Y, but the fact that now they have to compete for relevance over is a burden for the studio. They need to keep up the profits by speeding up development, cutting corners and selling old content as DLC, which somehow fucking worked for SwSh, but I wonder for how long that's going to last. |
I get that, but don't you think the series could have evolved? Seeing how GTA went from strength to strength and ended up selling 100m+ copies, I really thought that Pokemon was capable of making that kind of jump. It is a series that can sell 40m+, and at twice the price of previous iterations. I think that would've complimented Pokemon Go and even pushed it further. But hey a man can dream