Pokemon Is No Longer Game Freak’s Number One Priority, Says Developer

Relying on one series is never good, unless that series is Call of Duty, FIFA, or Pokemon. Japanese developer Game Freak has been around since 1989, and since 1996 — when it released Pokemon Red and Blue — it has been releasing almost exclusively Pokemon games. And it's gone well for the studio.

That said, it's increasingly putting more priority on making new games, and is even prioritizing new game projects more than Pokemon at this point, according to one developer.