>>49775713I'd say you're still looking at it wrongly. For better or worse, they started on this speed of cycle (Nintendo actually wanted the sequel for 1997 as their own in-house staff could work to that kind of turnaround - Aonuma making Majora's ask in a year for N64 as an example). They span it out eventually to a Generation, purely as Nintendo realised they needed three to adequately plan out how they wanted to make their kid's game and they could market the products in three year chunks, before a big advertising blitz to wipe away the old and start with the new, to hook the new generation of kids growing up and into video games. They haven't gone away, even if the ranks of olddfag pokémon players stacks up Gen on Gen and that's who they continually make these games for. Without them, a "Children of Men" scenario where global infertility happens? Most of this shit dies, as everything's keystoned on selling the game (thus everything else) to kids.
You're never getting Pokémon back kid, but at least you had it at one point. I was too old for any of it to care I existed from the start, never stopped me still enjoying them for what they were.
