>>45808679Anon, Game Freak don't care, any sales they'll lose by next Gen will be replaced with fresh blood, as always, and there'll be enough returnees to ensure its sales stay consistently high, like how SM and XY eventually sold within whiskers of each other, despite XY having no third version to neuter its sales and SM being replaced by a third version pair.
This never was your series and you never had the ability to shape its direction - pokémania and Gen III codified what the franchise was all about,the rest was all about continuing to push it at each successive generation of new players. This will do nothing, but cause yet more incel anger and tears when they're truly shown they had no agency in the franchise since they stopped being the specific target age range for the series.
