For Z-A I'll give credit for them taking longer to develop the games now and it looking notably better than SV so they are improving but it's still absolutely bad for 2025 standards. SV was outright atrocious for 2022 standards so there's still a lot more improving to go till things get to a satisfactory level. There's plenty of games on the Switch that look notably better than Z-A and with Pokemon being the most successful media franchise of all time they really should be living up to that and putting out games that look impressive for the hardware they're on. Z-A should be a strong contender for the best looking game on the Switch with it releasing so late in its life but it's not even remotely close to that.
I do expect gen 10 to be another improvement but I'm pretty confident it's still gonna look really meh compared to other big games releasing in the first couple years of the Switch 2's life so until Pokemon games are among the best looking games on Nintendo consoles people are rightfully gonna criticize them for not living up to what they should be like.







