>>35710940The modern consumer is a smooth brain that really only wants pretty time wasters that give them a sense of progression and accomplishment without minimal effort, so they want a game that appeals to that market, a glorified phone game.
Also, they're making it with Go in mind, since it was their modern take on Pokemon that worked well. Remember that one of the biggest selling points for Pokemon Go was that it offered socially inept people a easy talking point , and people like that are abundant.
It would also explain the lack of network and online features, it's less effort since they already had GO to handle mobile and online features.
