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Originally posted by Flare
The only reason Digimon is trying that is because nothing they do sells anymore. If anything, Digimon should be copying the Pokemon formula and finally be a real competitor for it in sales and quality. 
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Digimon did have Pokemon-esque games and they did pretty poorly.
And what they do does sell. The last few PSP games sold really well in Japan, and the first PSP game sold so well they made a port for the 3DS.
The reason why we are getting great games is because of how well the games are selling now. They are able to have bigger-budgeted games due to the success over there.
And now Namco are testing the waters over here (even though they are using a trash game to test with) to see if it's worth rebooting the franchise.
Anyway, have you seen Cyber Sleuth or the PSP games? Why should Namco step down the quality so it matches Pokemon?
Trust me, Digimon is a great competitor quality wise. They just don't know how to market their franchise (especially internationally). Pokemon's lucky that the Anime was so huge in it's heyday, because it's not doing well now, but the games are able to survive based on the impact it had.
I do wish Pokemon would do an Anime like Pokemon Movie 2

That was such an amazing movie and they never really returned to that style.