>>41215267Expanding on this: dump some shitty minigames onto that shit. People love minigames. Pokeathlon or contests or whatever. Use points earned in those contests (in addition to points earned in the vs-CPU battle systems) to buy the items you need for comp, just like in battle tower. Make players slowly unlock shit like Mega Stones, Z-Crystals, Choice Items, plus a shitload of TMs, nature-changing mints, bottle caps, the new EV-maximizing Irons/Proteins/etc..
You pay $9.99 a month to play minigames and do battle facility shit (on your phone even), grind for shit to get your mons ready for battle, find matches with others, etc. As long as you can also pet your fucking pokemon and monitor your Official National Dex progress through the app, it basically does everything everyone is sad you can't do in SwSh.
I'm telling you, if they did that, people would forgive literally everything wrong with SwSh, and pre-emptively forgive the complete lack of post-game content in every other title they release from now until the end support for Pokemon Home. It gives them the freedom to do whatever the fuck they want with every new Pokemon game going forward, and it will still be guaranteed sales to the obsessed fanbase as long as there is exactly ONE new Pokemon that you can only get by buying it (see: Manaphy, Meltan).
