>>47084629>they act like they're some small indie franchise even though they've been the highest grossing franchise in the world for a while now.Because that works for them. Notice that ethos has seen them sell 265m units in 25 years. Besides, they've addressed this directly, the bigger the teams, the longer it takes to get ANYTHING, much less a kid's game they have a 3-year hard time limit on, done. They don't care some fat burger manchild rees they aren't making Dark Pokémon Souls, as kids have proven, it doesn't need to have the meme of "graphics" or "challenging gameplay" to attract players, as always.