>>52217305>imagine if literally any other game studio could use game freak's IPs and make pokemon games.They have. See: Mystery Dungeon, Ranger, Snap, Pokepark, Conquest, Pokken, etc. Imagine if the fanbase had actually bought them instead of ignoring them because they weren't Game Freak's slop.
>imagine if pokemon games had any competition whatsoever.Imagine if Pokemon fans didn't wail in agony at the mere existence of other games in the same subgenre.