Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee reveal trailer

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NightlyPoe said:

curl-6 said:

No, it's not. It's an issue of technical quality. You can have the same core art style with better technical quality.

No you can't.  When you up the "technical quality" as you put it, you've changed the style.  You put arms on Miis and the art style of Wii Sports has changed.  You take away the pixels in any pixel art game and you've changed the art style.  You make the Pokemon in Pokemon Quest not big blocks then the art style has changed.  This generation is awash in games that could easily have better graphics, but have chosen not to for stylistic reasons.

As I said yesterday, if Game Freak had wanted to increase the "technical quality" of the graphics, likely all the had to do was flip a switch in the engine.  Graphical prowess at the level of the 360 is relatively easy if that's what the developers want and this is hardly an indie product.  It doesn't look like Sonic because they don't want it to.

Whether it is deliberate or not is irrelevant, fact of the matter is, the game's textures and detail are below the standards of 2005 hardware. It's pretty understandable why some people are disappointed when a 2018 game falls short of the standards of 2005 hardware.