The real reason for Game Freak's choice of visuals.

[Landale_Star]

RolStoppable said:

Landale_Star said:
What surprises me is that anybody expected Pokemon to have good graphics, the games have always been simple and clean....the Pokedex cuts are one thing but the visuals are pretty much what I expect from this series. However, I gave up on Pokemon a long time ago, having to buy two very similar games and then maybe a third or fourth minor upgrade, released a bit later, has always seemed like complete money grabbing that everyone just ignores because it's Nintendo.

It's ignored because your reasoning is dumb.

Yeah, it's immensely profitable for the publisher, but where is the benefit to gamers to buy an incomplete version of the game? They launch at least two incomplete versions of the same game, every generation. The standard defense is it's actually an advantage because it forces you to make friends or something, but I don't buy that. Pokemon trading and battles would still be just as relevant even if everyone owned the whole game, but Nintendo knows that by splitting it up, they'll rake in cash from people who have to buy both games. It's just a cash grab.