I think that it tied into BDSP's existence, which was partially so that newer players could experience DP in its original form without having to hunt down old consoles and games on websites like eBay where they will often go for hundreds of dollars. Legends Arceus notably even included a sidequest that requires you to play a good chunk through BDSP in order to even know what to do.
I don't think that was the rationale behind BD/SP and Legends Arceus releasing so close together though. I don't think that they wanted to have players familiar with the original D/P games in order to make the contrast to Legnds Arceus stand out more. Fans had wanted D/P remakes for years. I remember people being upset when Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee were announced partly because they wanted either the eighth generation or D/P remakes to be the first main series titles for the Switch and this was in the middle of the seventh generation. This was a way to provide traditional D/P remakes while having something experimental at te same time. They didn't know how well Legends Arceus would be, so releasing it alongside D/P remakes was a way to cover their basis instead of putting all of their baskets onto a brand new experimental game.
That's true. I remember lots of people being critical about Gen 5 when Black/White first came out, in particular about the new Pokemon designs and the fact that old Pokemon weren't available until the post-game, but now it seems like everyone and their family tree love them for reasons that I assume are influenced mostly by nostalgia.
It's called "The Zelda Cycle". A fandom hates a game when it comes out but decides it was actually the best game in the franchise a decade later. It's named after the fan reactions to Majora's Mask, Windwaker, and Twilight Princess.
Remakes tend to be announced in may or june. If you look at the history of the franchise ,it has almost always been announced in one of those two months. The game can be made by another company so they don't have to split their ressources. Ad that to the fact that this is is the 25th anniversary of Pokémon Crystal.
Which is shaky logic at best because Game Freak has and continues to operate under the logic that every game is someone’s first game. Even with Legends Arceus having a BDSP side quest is not supporting evidence for the time-in conclusion by virtue of being side material rather. This means it’s not the main campaign
We haven’t had a new mainline game not be announced on Pokémon Day since LGPE, which was six years ago. If we were getting a new game it would have been announced then, and it probably would’ve been an ILCA developed faithful remake of X&Y.
They wouldn't remake X/Y before remaking B/W and whether or not they'd work with ILCA for another remake isn't guaranteed either. There still isn't any evidence to say that all Legends games would be released with remakes, especially when Legends was not guaranteed to be a sub category of the main series when Legends Arceus was released.
they're allowed to skip years of production though
It feels like Game Freak should have invested in more teams and employees at the office. How they run thing feels like how indie devs with little experience run things rather than one of the owners of the biggest franchises in the world.
That's because they actually want to be an indie company. They don't care much for Pokémon anymore and want to make other things.
