>>37788214realistically, they should hire new talent and have two teams. Team A continues to make "core" games as they have since Red and Blue (Green). This team would also do remakes and maybe combine regions or to "remixes" to keep areas fresh and give players more to explore in places they've seen before. The total number of pokemon maxes out at 1,000. We do not get more after that.
Team B goes into longer production cycles and makes products that appeal to their older customers. This does not mean M for mature games, just less "kiddy" games. Heavier emphasis on character stories, far less hand holding, greater difficulty, and more freedom to move through the world, and similar changes that would appeal to a slightly older audience than Pokemon's usual crowd. For these games, to help make them stand out and provide better gameplay, some updates are provided for stats, type interactions, and move pools. These changes can also get rid of or fix things like IVs and EVs that hyper focus the meta game.
Since Gamefreak obviously has the cash, they should also feel free to get a C team going that tries out new ideas for potential spin offs. Mystery Dungeon and Conquest were fine spin off titles. Team C could see if the formula works with other game styles. Want to see what Pokemon is like through the lens of a Xenoblade or Xenoblade Chronicles X set up? Try it out. Open spaces, encounters and their difficulty visible on the over world, attacks tied to cool downs and selectable from an active battle wheel, emphasis on positioning and possibly working with ally trainers or switching between pokemon in sequence to land combos, all things you couldn't get away with in mainline, but could test in side games.
