>>51754446Different franchises. Sonic lost its normie popularity 20 years ago, they only HAVE their autistic neet fanbase to subsist on. Pokémon not only own the normies, they grow their autistic neet fanase with every release, year and Gen, so that's less need to "take 5 years" to make a game, as they just DON'T fail like games that fail actually fail.
>the poorest-selling pokémon title still sold 6.39m units>the poorest-selling of the last 10 years sold almost 10mThere's no incentive to do anything you desire, when they can jut make games as normal and get their usual audience engaged as well as Switch and the steps they've taken finally growing the playerbase for the first time in 20 years.
