That's why Pokemon is still popular, because it hasn't changed much The day it changes will be the day it dies Expecting an IP to change is selfish, because y

That's why Pokemon is still popular, because it hasn't changed much The day it changes will be the day it dies Expecting an IP to change is selfish, because you want the experience to be different than the 1st time, but what you don't understand is there are new players every years who have never experienced that 1st time, that's called demography, that's what the pokemon's target audience is, they are constantly able to renew their player base, hence making it last over the decades, you are expected to play the game few times, then pass it on your kids, so they can experience the same magic too (similar to Disney) Besides, they are already trying to explore different genres with multiple spinoffs: https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_games#Spin-off_games https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_games#... That's not because the last game was met with performance issues that they have to reconsider the genre of their game, they still have sold millions of copies You mention BG 3, but Larian studios did exactly that, their games haven't changed at all, it's still is the same formula, with a modern look, and it works, that's what Game Freak should keep doing Hopefully with the Switch 2, they'll have a better time making it more modern, being held back by Tegra 1 was probably not fun for them