| Darwinianevolution said: I'm increseangly worried about the growing mobile focus of the Pokemon series. Other than Legends AZ, everything was mobile, does the Pokémon Co. and Nintendo not let the license to other studios to make Switch games? There's only been four proper spinoffs on the Switch: the mystery dungeon remake, the Pokken port, Snap and Detective Pikachu. The rest are mobile games that were ported to the Switch because why not? Also, if Champions is an actual battle simulator, then I fear they will try to shut down Pokemon Showdown to avoid competition from a fan game. As for Legends AZ, GameFreak has yet to iron out a good deal of the glitches from Scarlet/Violet, so they jumping so soon into another Legends game bodes ill about its eventual quality (or the quality of the next core installment). |
The reality is that Pokemon is pretty much a mobile franchise at this point. Nintendo is probably Ok with this as long as no Pokemon game comes out on PC, PS and Xbox. The console games they make is no longer the big priority, the priority is the mobile stuff, while the console games are probably just made to make Nintendo happy.
