Why did Pokemon even jump to 3D?

[Barkley]

konnichiwa said:

Barkley said:

The amount of effort/work and budget should scale with sales. If a game that makes $20m in revenue can manage to have 240 high quality animated creatures than a game that makes $900m+ in revenue can manage much more. Pokemon has never appeared to have a large budget while being one of the biggest earners in gaming.

Not with sales but time, delaying the game with more or all pokemon would be a 'better' game but cost more time to do so.  At this point they should have said they will bring more or all on a later date it would probably have been a better effect because you can alteast forward to the pokemon being added.   This reminds me all of GT on PS3 that would have lesser cars and people were upset so they put the PS2 cars in the game with PS2 graphics and people were pissed.

You don't necessarily need more time, more developers would work too. Cyber Punk has over 400 developers for instance. Game Freak employs a total of 143 people, some of those developers working on Town. Over the last decade Pokemon RPG's have sold over 100m copies. 

In the same time that Pokemon sold 100m copies, PlatinumGames sold roughly 15m games... yet employ 211 people. I think you'd be pretty hard pressed to find a company that has such a proportionally low employment compared to sales as Game Freak. Which is fine until you do something fans don't like because it'd be too much work, especially with the price increasing from $40 to $60 with the Switch.

And honestly the Pokemon X/Y models shown rendered at 1080p in Citra are good enough, they could do with higher resolution textures but other then that. I think most people that want a full national dex would be fine with the X/Y models, rather than not having them at all. Cars are more complicated and detailed shapes/textures than pokemon so Gran Turismo was a bit different, especially when you can compare it to Forza 3, which with DLC had 500 high quality cars while GT5 had just 211 "premium cars".