>>36943145They didn't sell simply because they were spinoffs.
Spinoffs have NEVER sold as good as the main games unless they're a household staple like Mario Kart.
GameFreak and TPC have achieved full-on "we need more money who gives a shit about experimenting and taking risks" mode, and after seeing Pokken DX sell worse than literal cardboard, I can see why they'd do this.
This is where LGPE comes in, to usher in a new age of what's a spinoff and what isn't alongside various terminology tweaks that will only apply to games starting with LGPE onward.
>Mainline Games are now referred to as Core Games; ergo, games with all the CORE features of the usual Pokemon Games at the time of their release>Spinoff Games are now referred to as Mainline Games; games that lack all of the core features, but still have enough that they're still a typical Pokemon Game in some distorted aspect>judging from Gen 7's complete lack of "typical" Spinoffs other than a port and the full version of Detective Pikachu, it seems the term Spinoff will now exclusively apply to Mobile Games>in summary, LGPE has the qualities of a spinoff but is officially recognized as a "mainline" title in order to make sure it turns a profitBasically think of when they called Yoshi's Island "Super Mario World 2" because they were afraid no one would buy it unless they slapped that on the box.
