Does this man even care about the success of Pokemon anymore?

Success in money? or Success in quality. Former for sure. he cares about

>>33532345
Is that an Wii U pad on his hand?

>>33532364

I guess they care, he cared about his older ideas after all and cared a lot to make pokemon feel good for fans

Ask to tsunekasu ishihara

>>33532387
>an

>>33532345
I don't think it's that he and Game Freak don't care, I think they just genuinely don't know what to do with the games and are worried if they change too much at once they'll alienate the fans. And if you know everyone will buy the new Pokemon game anyway then why take the risk.

>>33532482
>are worried if they change too much at once they'll alienate the fans
If that's what they were worried about, every single game would be feature packed as fuck rather than a feature sometimes basically being one and done.

No one asked for difficulty, the Studios, Pokéathlon, the PWT, or seasons to be removed after just one set, for example.

No one asked for the Frontier to be removed after 5 fucking sets.

No one asked for Contests to be removed after 4 sets.

No one asked for the much more accurate dpad to be dropped after every other fuck set having it in favor of shortcuts in lieu a thing they already have a shortcut to.

No one asked to have the Bike removed so you had to press B to stay in fastest motion on, making egg hatching a two handed job rather than something you could do with one hand while doing something else.

No one asked for Musicals to be removed after two sets.

These things and many more had "fans" or at least people who liked them. Removing them means they are by default alienating those people and they are doing so intentionally by admission in interviews. Adding things is how you grow a player base, not removing things because you're admittedly going about making a less than mobile quality game and selling it at full price on a dedicated gaming device they didn't buy to play mobile shit even if it was as good as mobile shit.

Wait, is he actually playing that? lol.

Japanese are notorious for sticking to the status quo. We're lucky to have seen any changes at all in how things are done in these games.