>>56944295Funny, Masuda outright said in one the last interviews befire he left, Tajiri still does research for upcoming games and the series.
He doesn't DIVERSIFY into making a game, his input is now strictly ideas, like he had a killer idea for a moncap game, but piss-poor ability to direct a project to completion in a reasonable timeframe so he'd stepped back to allow someone who COULD do that in a timely manner. And knowing your limitations and taking steps to correct that is more important than coming back to make a game for Anon, the overgrown child, because he wasn't even born when Tajiri did it the first time and has big mad because of it. And here today in 2024 they're still making the games to his vision, which includes accepting pokémon and humans fuck.