Harry Potter: depicts neoliberal hell, immensely popular among people who grew up in the 90s and 00s but fell off hard among people who don’t have nostalgia for that exact specific era of life in the anglosphere
Pokemon: depicts socialist utopia, immensely popular across multiple generations and cultures with no signs of slowing even though the games have kinda sucked for a while
I think that’s what they’re trying to do with the Legends series, but they just aren’t in step with the fans and/or they just aren’t able to take the kind of risk they need to take. They need to farm the franchise out to AA devs like they did with the Colosseum games, keep game freak on the main franchise only but supplement that with a spin-off game with fresh ideas every couple of years.
Harry Potter: depicts neoliberal hell, immensely popular among people who grew up in the 90s and 00s but fell off hard among people who don’t have nostalgia for that exact specific era of life in the anglosphere
Pokemon: depicts socialist utopia, immensely popular across multiple generations and cultures with no signs of slowing even though the games have kinda sucked for a while
They really could make so much money with a good modern game, if they ever made one
I think that’s what they’re trying to do with the Legends series, but they just aren’t in step with the fans and/or they just aren’t able to take the kind of risk they need to take. They need to farm the franchise out to AA devs like they did with the Colosseum games, keep game freak on the main franchise only but supplement that with a spin-off game with fresh ideas every couple of years.