>>39378605Except they actually lose basically nothing for letting them sit in a warehouse for a couple more years and just do other stuff.
If you walk into Wal-Mart no one is harmed if you pick up a pack of cards and then decide against them and pick something else up. They'll just sell them later.
The anime is all filler so it doesn't need anything about the games at all done because the ideas and any episodes done would be shelved for later while they do something else just like they did with the Orange Islands and Battle Frontier arcs which took place why?
Right. When Gen 2 and 4 were delayed.
As for other merch, nothing needs to change for the most part.
There is nothing stopping them from placing new Pokémon in other games and the anime etc. before the main series games come with them.
Almost all of the movies, anime, and side series games near the end of a Gen have new shit in them. They could just keep up with existing merch and sell the stuff of those right now.
Hell, they even just take from other of the side series and make new shit.
Have they ever made plushies of them with Mystery Dungeon hold items like the scarves etc. they've used in the anime shorts? If they haven't, there's some filler merch right there off the top of my head and I know that wouldn't take long to get done.
Plushies and shit take 6 months tops from order to shipment and that's speaking from someone with an indie company, not THE biggest brand in the world who could easily pay to skip the wait.
Not that any of this matters.
They cause this themselves. No one should care. Sometimes you make mistakes and have to deal with the fallout and the last decade for Pokémon has been nothing but a barrage of them, mostly on Game Freak's part.
This does not and should not matter to consumers.
>>39378663DS Lite got shafted by Gen 4 being delayed too. The delay still happened.