Several informations from Games Freak projects (mainly Pokemon) were leaked today

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IcaroRibeiro said:

Zippy6 said:

The leaked budgets for these games is a joke though.

$13m for Pokemon Legends Z-A
$20m for Pokemon Wind/Waves

No wonder Z-A looks like crap. You have games that will gross $1 Billion and you're spending only $13m developing them... unreal.

Don't get me wrong, low budgets is an admirable thing, if the game doesn't suffer for it, which Pokemon clearly has the whole Switch generation.

13 million is pathetic 

Specially when it's a game with a long list of credits like Pokemon. Pokemon is a franchise that stablish itself as having a long list of creatures to catch, and of course those Pokemons need artists to model their assets. To keep a budget so short they are very obviously opting for cutting content and reusing models every entry instead of developing new, better assets 

I'm confident I will never buy a Pokemon game in my life. Gamefreak is far and away the most pathetic and untalented game developer in the world, and looking at their budget I can easily tell they are also the most money hungry. 13 million for a game that can sell over 10 million units? Insanity 

The issue lies on The Pokémon Company, not Game Freak per say. TPC is the one who must decide the budget for the games and Game Freak must work around with that