Ah yeah. I see where you are coming from. They are really behind compared to other devs out there and im glad Nintendo Forced them to make a Pokemon game on a device that can handle sooo much more compared to the past handhelds. 

I also had my bitching towards Gamefreak. But seeing today's presentation I complimented them quite a lot. They are going in the right direction and hopefully we will start seeing major improvements in future pokemon games. 

I didn’t say there is one guy doing it. It’s a team thing, I know. I’m just saying if you want to animate all that, team or not, it’s still a heavy task. Even for 20 people it’s not a simple task. Especially since most of Game Freak’s Pokemon team have likely not developed an HD game outside of the few non-Pokemon projects they released prior to Sword and Shield.

I didn’t play Dragon Quest XI, so how many monsters are there?

I think even though it’s been three years, they have shared some development staff between that and Lets Go. Regardless, you’re right, it’s been 3 years. I think it’s still pretty good.

GameFreak recycles quite a lot of content, though, and it's been doing so for quite a while now. The 3D models for the pokemons, as well as most of the attack animations, status and enviromental effects, are already HD quality, and they have been so from X/Y. While this is not a bad thing, it's not like they have to start from scratch every generation.

Pretty much this.

As I've said before, Gamefreak have always been a handheld developer, and their games have usually been pretty low-end when it came to the graphics capabilities of the hardware. The only way Gen 8 was going to look on par with first party Switch releases was if another developer like Monoliftsoft helped develop the engine and graphics. I'm still disappointed nothing like that happened, but for their first big new HD game it's about as good as it be be expected to get given Gamefreak's lackluster graphical pedigree.

Level 5 would be interesting. But I wouldn’t want their business team..Asking the developers to create sequel and spinoffs in such close proximity of each other created saturation. We’re kinda seeing that in Yokai Watch 4’s COMG numbers as they’re not even near the numbers of the previous games in Japan. Granted, Pokemon has had numerous spinoffs as well, but at least their mainline games don’t affect one another and create such saturation that a significant amount of their audience start losing interest. Pokemon has been able to do what Yokai Watch appears to be struggling with: adapting and succeeding once the phenomenon ends.

I was hoping that with this direct, people would end the "Gamefreak is lazy" pov, but I am disappointing

I have. A movie is different though: I don't have a controller in my hand during a movie.

Tbh YW isn't really on the same level of quality as Pokemon so even with people saying well this developer did this well all well and good but that's not what the fanbase has been looking for in the games it never has been otherwise the alternatives would have done a lot better.

Pokemon is the successor of the Earthbound games as Creatures were the developer behind those games under their founding name (Ape) and brought the template over to Pokemon, those games have never been technically on par with others they sold purely on the game's charm and that continued in Pokemon only with the latter a sub-culture was created from the trading and multiplayer so these 3 points are what attracts people to the games (charm, trading, multiplayer elements). GF were always going to focus on these 3 points more than using flashy tech, SW/SH is even a lot more then what I expected them to put out.

This definitely looks like a much more open world game than the initial trailer seemed. Aside from the art style/graphics still being a bit underwhelming, not sure what people wanting a more open world direction can complain about. More or less looks like the direction fans were asking them to go in here. I'm excited. My only real gripe is that I'm definitely not sold on Dynamax yet as actually enhancing anything gameplay wise. Seems super gimmicky and even a bit lazy since nothing about the Pokemon's design even changes. I really don't know why they haven't just stuck to Mega Evolutions. That's one gimmick that was amazing and actually worked beyond just being a gimmick. Ultra Beasts, Alolan forms, and Dynamax from the early looks of it have all paled in comparison to Megas. Bring them back, so much possibility still on the table with them. Also a tad bummed the mascots look so similar to each other, even though I think the overall design idea is really cool.