>>41223987Different people started worrying at different games, but there was something for someone in each game although there was less and less and we arrived to this situation where no one is happy except the few shills. It's been a slow death that ended in a boom of anger in 2019.
Notice that the trend followed the rise in mobile gaming. Ishihara always wanted to go mobile.
Pokémon is a normie game, it aims to the masses, forever trying to be as relevant as it was during Pokémania. Because Pokémon's brand worth comes mostly from meechandise, it's Ishihara at TPC who runs the show. He always wanted pokémon to be a mobile hit which probably oed him to frictions with Nintendo
Remember he told them the Switch would fall because this was a mobile world. Then he admitted he was wrong. But he has all the incentive to abandon traditional gaming.