>>48596341>You could definitely argue that Pokemon hasn't expanded its userbase, but that's not regression, that's just inability to broaden appeal.It depends on how big is the whole player base. If Pokemon went from (random numbers as illustration) 60% of the GBA user base to 40% of the Switch user base, that's a regression in a certain way.
Similarly, staying constant when everyone around you is expanding is also a kind of relative regression.
However, there's no doubt Pokemon is making more money than even (thanks to more sales, more expensive games and DLCs), so in that way I can see it as a progression... but not from the player point of view who only get the same quality of games and not better games as the technology evolves (also a kind of regression, not following the hardware evolution, which is even worse than it sounds since Nintendo's hardware already is outdated)
