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I get it, mobile games cost about the same but make like 10x more money if you are a big brand like pokemon, but it's depressing because pokemom has had so many cool collaboration with other studio.
In the early switch era the spinoffs we got were fantastic (Mystery Dungeon, Pokken, and Snap), and the studio who worked on them were unironicly better and more competent then modern gamefreak nowadays with their new games.
However over thr last 4-5ish years they realized how lucrative the mobile game market is and stopped caring about full fledged side games, even the main games have significantly less content because they treat them as live service with the "raid" systems, which sucks because you have no single player content left.
I was stupidly hoping for a new Mystery Dungeon or Pokken tbh 
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I think it's just knowing the mobile market has way more expansion opportunities for them.
As weeb-y as Pokémon can be I think it still has general market appeal for normies who weren't going to buy a switch.
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Yeah but they are the most profitable media empire maybe ever, they have no excuse not to be chucking money at developer who have a track record of making good games to make spinoffs for them.
It's good advertising for people who don't like core pokemon but instead a different genre of games to get into their merch ecosystems imo.
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I think they do have an excuse when these mobile games get more money back than a spinoff switch game would
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Yeah, when that mobile card game got released a few months back, all my coworkers got into it. They're all normie dudes, 25 to 40 year olds; some of them didn't even play the games as kids.
I think a couple of them are still playing it to this day
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