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Phenomajp13 on 24 October 2025
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Zippy6 said:
Phenomajp13 said:

The issue with this logic is that it's only one way to look at things. Monolith makes excellent games just like the Zelda team but Pokemon's consistency is largely ignored to praise developers that release games every blue moon. It's nice that many consumers prefer them to slow down the cadence of releases in order to improve "quality" which is subjective but you don't get to speak for the entire userbase. Millions of consumers want content as soon as possible and if sacrificing prettier graphics or whatever helps them deliver more content then so be it, that's something Monolith and the Zelda team fail to deliver, consistent software. Pokemon has sold millions of more games than those franchises because of the consistency similar to Call of Duty. Call of Duty was able to catch and outsell Grand Theft Auto because GTA games take forever while CoD delivers content consistently like Pokemon.

The thing is, with the amount of money Pokemon brings in they should be able to provide quality on a consistent basis. They have enough money to have multiple large teams all working on different projects. 3 decently sized teams, with a 6 year dev time would be a game every 2 years, or even 2 teams with a 4 year gap between releases would probably see an improvement.

But for some reason we are in a situation where Game Freak works on a shoe string budget with little resources working to push out a game basically bi-annually. 

The resources game freak had back when they were making Pokemon for the DS/3DS and prior was enough. But on a modern HD system they clearly don't have enough to be delivering at the same pace (but they still try to keep that schedule anyway). As Miyamoto said, developing for the WiiU required twice as much resources as developing for the Wii. Now imagine how much more resources developing for the Switch compared to the 3DS needs. Why they are still a relatively smaller team working with so little money on the biggest media franchise in the world is just crazy.

Honestly I agree with you but I can't say I don't see the improvements they have been making and you should consider Nintendo is much more "conservative" than the rest of the industry. Nintendo sees what you see as well, GameFreak I'm pretty sure was also part of the massive development building Nintendo built. They see GameFreak needs help and hopefully we see this in the future games. ZA is still a Switch game and was born from the SV engine due to only Mesgoza from SV being the only comparable city to Lumiose in ZA in terms of scale. Hopefully Gen X which leaks revealed is set for next year (again consistency) delivers what we desire. Open world Pokemon with overworld catching and the action based battles ZA gave us a glimpse of.