I feel it in my gut that some day Pokemon is going to have his "BotW"-like game that will make it revolutionary and relevant again, but until then we're gonna get a lot of stinkers.
They don't even have to do anything new, they just have to look at Cassette Beasts to see how to pull off an open world Pokemon-like game.
And you'll have a certain group of diehard fans who believe it "isn't a real pokémon game" because of the changes lol.
with regular releases
I guess having fewer releases isn't an option
One would think the rational response from a development perspective is to make fewer releases but just as regular (ie.: change the release freq from "one per year" to "one per three years").
perhaps it's not possible; the crunch strategy isn't working (and is grinding up and spitting out devs)
It's perfectly possible: they just need to reduce the frequency of that "regular" to eg.: regularly once every three years.
ᴜɴɪᴏɴɪᴢᴇ ᴜɴɪᴏɴɪᴢᴇ ᴜɴɪᴏɴɪᴢᴇ ᴜɴɪᴏɴɪᴢᴇ ᴜɴɪᴏɴɪᴢᴇ ᴜɴɪᴏɴɪᴢᴇ ᴜɴɪᴏɴɪᴢᴇ ᴜɴɪᴏɴɪᴢᴇ ᴜɴɪᴏɴɪᴢᴇ ᴜɴɪᴏɴɪᴢᴇ ᴜɴɪᴏɴɪᴢᴇ ᴜɴɪᴏɴɪᴢᴇ ᴜɴɪᴏɴɪᴢᴇ ᴜɴɪᴏɴɪᴢᴇ ᴜɴɪᴏɴɪᴢᴇ ᴜɴɪᴏɴɪᴢᴇ ᴜɴɪᴏɴɪᴢᴇ ᴜɴɪᴏɴɪᴢᴇ
Also cool it on the release cycle a bit. And get Raitora in a game
A game that has barely changed in over 30 years, except to expand the color palette occasionally? What can they possibly be quality controlling? Its not even like you have to spell check stuff when half your proper nouns are gobbley-removed.
I guess it would have been nice if PokemonGO had released in anything resembling a playable state. But people still threw endless amounts of cash at it. So how important can quality control even be?
Under capitalism, a petty company with money can do anything.
On the question of "should it be able"? No. Even if reusing the """assets""" such as the graphics of the mons, they are postprocessed and converted for usage in a project like pixelmon to adjust for the visual style ("cubemon" style), which any pregraduate lawyer can identify as a Transformative Work.
