LogFAQs > #889007303

It would sell extremely poorly since it'd lose the bottom half of its fanbase, fail to attract a significant number of new fans, and likely alienate even die-hard fans.

As for the idea of Pokemon warfare, there already *was* a strategy game along those lines -- Pokemon Conquest -- which didn't do that well. The concept also appeared in some terrible story arcs of the Pokemon manga and using Pokemon for warfare was alluded to in XY as a big thing.

It's also worth noting that the Pokemon designs generally don't lend themselves to that kind of content. Pokemon designs tend to be cute whereas a serious game would likely need more menacing monsters (granted, many of the dark and ghost types are fine as-is; and the concept of Mimikyu was surprisingly grim for a Pokemon game).
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