>>43973088Sure, but it wasn't 3D itself that killed Pokemon.
The use of 3D models allowed GF to very easily implement every Pokemon for years to come, not to mention it is far easier to animate 3D models and make minute changes to them in order to enhance their quality.
Where they went wrong was not using this newly acquired time from the switch to models, and instead they became complacent with merely importing the same ones whilst keeping their clusterfuck development schedule that allowed entirely different gens to be in progress at the same time which resulted in the regression from XY to SM. Surely it didn't help after Iwata's death when they realized they could limit Pokemon selection in-game to promote Bank, but rather than use Bank they went the extra mile and created Home with the promise of more features for a higher price.
Of course, Home's extra features never came to fruition either due to complacency. At it's root, that is what slowly killed the games from XY to SS.
