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i think this post and anyone else in the whole console whatever camp are ignorant of a few underlying realities:Which is going to be problematic when they jump to console and the console market wants to explore. If they don't consider exploration to be a key part of the gameplay they're going to need to rethink that.
1) the handheld market is done. if it were the case that Pokemon Switch would have to compete with Pokemon 4DS then yes, it totally makes sense that Pokemon Switch would have to do something to push buyers in the direction of it over the traditional handheld game, but that is not the case. this leads to..................................
2) there is no real alternative to Pokemon (esp in the West). unlike something like Final Fantasy which does compete with other games, even some games made by the same developer, Pokemon has no competition. despite being a lot more open-ended (while still equally as one-dimensional and brain-dead as Pokemon), how well did Yokai Watch fare? spoiler alert: brief but immense success in Japan. flop in the West.
and finally, 3) Pokemon is practically a genre in and of itself. for all this brouhaha about exploration this open world that, there'll pretty much always be a market for Pokemon simply because as i said in 2), there's no way to get a fix of it anywhere else.
and that's not even bothering to unpack the notion of a 'console market.' (tl;dr: games are diverse.)