>>31737013The entire point of post-game is that it's optional content at the end of the game that is aimed at the people who want more and aren't just going to put the game down straight away. By your logic, Pokemon games might as well just end on a black "The End" screen with no extra content, like SNES and N64 era RPGs do.
Besides, the logic seems flawed in the first place. People will keep playing your game if you keep giving them reasons to play. Masuda is talking as if he's designing a smartphone game, when anybody who owns a 3DS has already made a conscious effort to put a bit more time and money into their hobby instead of just playing Flappy Bird on their memepad. Everybody I've met who plays Pokemon normally clocks 100 hours or over on any given save file, even on the shittier entries in the franchise.
The guy is talking out of his ass. He's come to the conclusion that people play Pokemon games for less time these days but I HIGHLY doubt Game Freak or Nintendo do any kind of thorough analytics on the matter to actually confirm that people are putting less hours into Pokemon than they did in the past, which means he's probably just pulling this shit outta thin-air.
