I'm thinking the same thing, however I'm hoping for the best. asking them to render all 802 pokemon  is a tall task your 1st go round. the last console game was battle revolution for the wii, which was carrying the same models from stadium and XD.

But the models wont bother me like it will for some. what I'm looking at will be the animations for the attacks in variety, style and ones that make sense. 

To be fair, I'd think that, if GF needed to use an already established engine, they would use the BotW engine. It works well on the Switch, and they own it in-house, so it may be a better choice.

You are judging a picture off screen of something that could be really early in development. Assuming it's real.

People are so negative here. 1 thing is confimed, that this will be the best looking pokemon game. Regardless if people's standards are at the highest or at the lowest.

Considering how HGSS is still the best looking Pokemon game despite advances in technology, calling this confirmed is false. Gamefreak can make good looking 3D Pokemon models and literally nothing else.

I really hope that the overwhelming critical and financial success of Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey, both of which are on track to be the best selling games of their respective series', is lighting a spark under Game Freak's ass to do something similar with Pokemon and I'd be more than willing to wait a while in order for that to happen.
But, I highly doubt that they will.

That's a little more encouraging, but I'll still maintain my "wait and see" approach.

Well, I kept saying that about Nintendo's franchises and yet look at the new Kirby and Yoshi. Granted, those games are way more """"""niche""""" than Pokemon or Mario, and they definitely seem like games that "have to be" made in a particular way, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's how GameFreak felt about Pokemon as well. That is has to be a linearly designed game. 

I don’t think it’ll be out of the realm of possibility of GF creating X/Y 2.0 and I don’t think it would necessarily be a bad thing, especially if it comes in 2018 or ‘19. This is their first foray into HD development outside of that one Elephant project. Plus rendering over 800+ Pokémon and integrating them into bigger worlds isn’t gonna be easy, no matter the staff and money they have. As for battles, i don’t expect Pokken type action. They’ll add new elements and all just like they’ve always done it, maybe more.

And as far as I'm aware, Game Freak isn't really stepping up its staff and hiring much more people to prep make Pokemon Switch a game like no game ever was.

https://www.polygon.com/2017/3/20/14982106/pokemon-nintendo-switch-game-freak-hiring

Going from the 3DS to the Switch is a huge leap and two extra staff members just won't cut it for the type of ambitious game that some people, myself included, are hoping for Pokemon Switch to be.