>>21211392Seriously though, it's really hard to balance a game with only a couple dozen playable characters. And seeing as this game in particular has three or four different modes to try to balance for, elements that are harmless in one format may be abso-fucking-lutely insane in another.
I can't imagine a Pokemon game ever being fully balanced. At least we don't have Gen I Normal and Psychic anymore.
As for the features thing, porting and expanding old features across possible game engine/hardware changes can easily take just as much time, energy, and resources as just making something new instead.
Granted if it's something that took as much time to create as Amie had to have, I doubt it would ever get dropped. 
