>>48895072>The people who make Pokémon stopped being passionate about Pokémon a long time ago.This. And the fact that most people who buy the Pokemon games literally do not care about how fun or long or replayable the games are.
They just play whatever is trendy at the moment so they can socialize about it and rapidly move on to the next trendy thing. When the new Pokemon game is out, they all buy it and play through it once quickly so they can meme about it and then move on. Because the majority of people are like this, any franchise that becomes popular is at great risk for getting fucked over because the people making new content for it know they will sell millions without having to impress anybody.
