>>49735071>How the fuck do you put thousands of hours in pokemonPokemon unironically has a-lot of replay value built into its premise. There are hundreds of monsters to collect, and dozens of team combinations. You have to trade around with others to complete the Pokedex. Maybe collect variants like shinies, HA, etc. Then there is PvP, be it in official tournament play or just playing casually with friends. Offline Battle Tower/Frontier type stuff which is virtually endless. And repeat playthroughs for nuzlockes or other challenge runs.
Gen 6 specifically made all of this more efficient than previous games, which is why people have 1000+ hour save files on them.