Which looks like a problem to me since they make billions selling their games. How much more successful could they be if they committed more resources to making games?
Pokemon is the highest grossing franchise in history. They could lose billions of euros on the games every year and still profit from it. They can hire an army of programmers, game designers and artist, pay them three times the asked wages an let them loose on making games for years, all on the proceeds of one plushy line.
It's folk wisdom that you can't buy yourself into being a great artist. Welp, the wise folk have never seen the Pokemon company. Because it can literally do that, at major loss, without breaking a sweat.
The shit games they make now are a choice. Not a product of circumstance. Not a "on shucks, can't be helped". They choose to make terrible games.
They wouldn't be. Generation 5 was the highest quality generation with a lot of innovations, new mechanics and the most fleshed out post game and side content the series has ever had and sold the worst in the series. Then right after that x and y shipped half finished and was the best selling game in the series other than the original red and blue.
Pokemon sells because of brand recognition and advertising, not because the games are good and TPC knows this and it's why the games have been consistently bad since then. Nintendo cares about their image and would never release a game in the state X and Y and sword and shield and scarlet and violet were in but since game freak is a 2nd party studio and it still sells they don't give a shit
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