>>58805195And that's not the "minimum investment, maximum profit" way. GameFreak has no interest in making their mainline games high cost because higher budget will not magically equate higher sales. A key point noticed in the Teraleak was the observation that they're being mindful of how increasingly pricey DLC expansions are becoming when it comes to ratio encompassing content, price and investment cost, they WANT to keep things dirt cheap because of how affordable the formula is.
Spinoffs just aren't like that, especially ones made by other companies, and the only way they'll make notable returns on spinoff investments is through making them mobile slop.