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>Masuda believes smartphone apps to be the future of gaming
>Go releases and is ridiculously successful
>Gives Masuda what he needs to believe that smartphones are the future
>Confirmation bias sets in by USUM selling worse than SM, even though they sold poorly for completely different reasons, especially since they're remakes
>Masuda doesn't care, he makes LGPE
>Fans buy it anyways
>He realizes he doesn't have to put in effort anymore
>Sword and Shield releases
>People buy it anyways
Say what you will about the mainline games, but GO was the definitive death of the franchise.