>>46132569Ishihara doesn't control Game Freak kid. Never has, never will. It's why he's ported an N64 and GBA game to Switch while Game Freak have bested everything they released in the last 20 years, including LGPE (which this place shat on from on high, right up to Sword/Shield started doing gangbusters) with their new Gen game developed for Switch.
If Game Freak really DID listen to Ishihara they wouldn't have even released LGPE till they saw second-year numbers like ole Ishihara waited to see.
Game Freak got their devkit in 2015, were working on Gen VIII in 2016, starting development on it in 2017 and released it as planned in 2019. Franchise moves to a set system kid, o amount of coping mechanisms will change that.