People like em, buy em, and the games make a ton of money.
It'd be really foolish of them to not keep making Pokémon games, you'd be throwing money away.
sorry let me rephrase that. i cant believe people are still buying pokemon games
i understand children but i dont understand how the other half (adults, teenagers over 15) are even remotely interested in the game. it's an overpolished disaster of an rpg game with repetitive gameplay and almost no depth beyond a simple rock paper scissors element chart and some stat debuffing moves
its not even hard or easy, its just plain boring. you go through almost every fight the same exact way as the last, switching out your pokemon for the right element, healing when they get too low, mashing a for like 3-4 minutes until you win, doing that over and over and over until the game is complete. there are no meaningful mechanics to reap from pokemon- all you can do is marvel at the polished sprites and models and possess pseudo bestiality-related loveual thoughts
gamefreak has never expanded their recipe at all. they made the dungeon games which were virtualy identical to regular pokemon except they had repetitive rng levels. they made pokemon go, they made pokemon rangers. but they're all just so devoid of depth yet people still pour so many dollars and hours in
