>>43920178They do make sense. Anon, the original Let's Go games sold over 11 million copies. There's a market for this type of game. Plus they can cross-sell it with GO by allowing transfers of Gen 1 and 2 Pokemon and probably Galarian forms of Gen 1/2 Pokemon into the game. They already have the majority of the assets for this game if they keep the same art style as LGPE. Kanto is essentially there. The textures of the Gen 1 Pokemon and following Pokemon are there. All they need are the Gen 2 Pokemon textures, the Johto character models, and the models for the updated Kanto characters.
Notice how the Isle of Armor DLC was completely bare-bones even though it was developed before SWSH came out, and 5 months came and went since it was announced. And at this point, despite being 5 months out from Crown Tundra, we already have assets, game images, and character and environment textures, plus the datamined stuff that is found in the Isle of Armor DLC. The director of the DLC is a first-time director, not someone who worked on games before. As opposed to other "third versions," the DLC only modifies the games insofar as what is being added. They are not revising the entire game from scratch again, just parts of the game that are being changed with the DLC.
There are probably 3 teams right now at Game Freak:
1) Team 1 - Ohmori's team - Working on Gen 9
2) Team 2 - DLC team - Working on DLC
3) Team 3 - Masuda's team - Working on Let's Go Johto games coming out later this year
Masuda is likely directing and working on Let's Go Johto right now, and the majority of the Game Freak employees who would have worked on an actual third version are instead split off to work on the DLC and Let's Go Johto. Notice how we already have the majority of info about Crown Tundra despite it being 5 months out. There's a reason for that.
The DLC is NOT the main product this year. It is not this year's Pokemon holiday title. It is just an add-on to last year's title.
