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Stefan51278 on 06 January 2023
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Pemalite said:


What goal posts have been moved? The game is a mess. Those are the objective facts... And a lot of those issues would be resolved with superior hardware as overclocked Switch consoles have factually proven.

The problems with Pokemon are not in any way based on the hardware perfomance of the Nintendo Switch. The game has a lot of problems because Game Freak is not in any way capable to make a game that meets the demand of the hardware. Game developers who develop a game for multiple console-targets or PC with almost endless combinations of hardware would love to have a single target to optimize their game against to achieve a good result and Game Freak isn't able to achieve even one optimized target. The Pokemon Engine had a lot of problems in previous games…even their first game had a lot of bugs, some of them still known to gamers as MissingNo.

This could be a direct result of a) their software development process being deeply flawed or/and b) the development being underfunded in a big way. I think it is a combination of both flaws and it shows in their games with simple things not fitting together. They could use a texture-library directly from the GameCube which was made to fit in the 40MB Ram that device had, but please for the love of god go with a uniform texel density. They do not even pick the low-hanging-fruits.

If they need better hardware to achieve better games then why is the Switch not the perfect Pokemon console? A bigger generational jump will not happen for a long, long time, if ever. They came from the 3DS and got the Switch. From 128MB Ram to 4096 MB Ram. From a 268Mhz-Dual-Core-Processor to a Quad-Core-Processor with 1000 Mhz. From a fixed-shader-GPU right to Nvidia Cuda Cores. I'm already interested in the ways they fuck up the next hardware with DLSS. If Nintendo could achieve a PS5 in a Switch Case without melting the device and having more than five minutes of battery life tomorrow…Game Freak would find a way to present us with a bad performing highly flawed game and it would still sell ten millions in the first week.

I really want the next Switch Hardware to be here sooner than later, but Pokemon is in no way, shape or form a valid argument. Please stop using it, you are hurting my software developer profesional honor.

Last edited by Stefan51278 - on 06 January 2023