>>39121074According to some poketubers online and some community members there is a theory going around that you should know about. This picture summarizes the net profit of the pokemon company. Pokemon Go was released in July 2016. That game was made by Niantic not gamefreak. The pokemon company is now focusing most of their resources into making mobile apps because they want to match the success of pokemon go. Gamefreak is beginning to realize that mobile apps is probably going to be the new focus for the pokemon company which means they might be left behind in the dust. In order to have a back up plan with some source of income just incase things go badly for gamefreak they decided to branch off pokemon and make new games. They made the conscious decision to put more effort into town than pokemon this time around for simply these reasons.