MegaMelon
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Yes, but they have to encourage players to come in. Game developers can't just pander to their existing audience, they need to expand it else the audience will gradually and noticeably shrink
It's illogical to dismiss what he said just because those kids don't play the games.
You're right that they need to encourage new players, but I don't feel that the ways they're going about it are neccesarily the right way. Like with the games difficulty, Masuda said in an interview on the games difficulty (http://www.gamespot.com/articles/pokemon-director-explains-why-series-is-becoming-e/1100-6422945//)
For example, there are so many free games you can play on your phone now, there's so many entertainment options, so making it a little easier to play is the reason for that.
I really don't think that someone who is interested in free games on phones is the type of person Gamefreak should be going after, especially if the existing audience suffers because of it. And we have. It's true that pokemon has never been a hard game series, but there was still some semblence of challenge in the older games.
BW2 for instance on it's own was still harder in say gyms despite being pretty similar to XY in terms of how many pokemon they have. But there was a hard mode which gave a more challenging option for (older) fans. Of course not only did they abandon it but it was locked behind completing the game AND was version exclusive. Decisions like that just baffle me.