>>47137207While the market of manchildren is much different than it was a decade ago, maybe it's a bad idea to change gears like that. I'm sure /toy/ would have something to say about franchises that try to focus on adult collectors, for example, but video games are quite a different thing. Pokemon, as a franchise, has more to gain by selling toys to children than it does making good video games. Even if we instead say that Pokemon as a video game is limited by being a franchise, which I agree with, if you keep focusing on the older demographics (who I'd like to remind you are normalfags who only care about the dragon guy and the yellow guy) you'll eventually basically exclude any new people (great for a community, bad for selling a product). Even if somehow word of mouth would help, the other major problem would be a dramatic change in tone. If you've watched Mike "The Klan" Stoklassa and Dick the Birthday Boy ever talk about Star Trek, you know how they dislike the overall tone of the franchise changing from optimistic space future to awful generic action. You'd need a very talented writer to get off that sort of transition, and while I think Toshinobu Matsumiya has been doing an okay job so far I don't think that you'll get anything good out of that sort of change. The best you can hope for is something like Kingdom Hearts, tonally, but I doubt that's the direction it will go.
What we actually need are more things like the GameCube games. I have a feeling ILCA might end up making a new game some time between Gen 9 and the release of whatever Game Freak is fucking around with on the Switch's sucessor, based off current trends. I'd hope for a different developer to get the same luxury, Genius Sonority did an alright job and I'd be interested to see what other developers could do. As it stands, however, I don't think TPC would want that. They basically murdered Genius Sonority, after all.
