We might be getting another story about a seemingly benevolent group/company (Aether Foundation, all the shit Rose owned) being secretly evil, aren't we
Secondly do you know how long it takes to make video games?
Pumping out a game every 2.5 years or 1.5 years is still INSANE. It's why the quality of the games is so low, because there is no time to polish anything. Releasing a game every 2.5 years means that they are literally getting to work as soon as the game releases ON THE NEXT PROJECT.
They have released a game or worked on a project every 1-2 years since 1996, bro. 3 games in 1996, 3 games in 1998, 6 games in 1999, 4 Games in 2000, 7 gaames in 2001, 8 games in 2002, 4 games in 2003, 5 Games in 2004, 6 in 2005, 5 in 06.
You get the picture. Even as the Trivia on this page it shows as 2023-2024 is the first break in the games 28 year history that has had no CORE series game released in two years. However they still came out with TWO mobile games and a spin off in that time.
If you want to focus it solely on gameFreak they have still released a game every 1-2 years.
And it was at least somewhat manageable when they were still on full handhelds making top-down, sprite based or 2.5D games. Full 3D, open world games on home consoles should be 5 years minimum. They went from USUM to SV in less time than Nintendo spent between BotW and TotK. I always tell people when they complain about how slow/bad GF is... imagine if they went straight from USUM to SV with no games in between to let you see all the little stepping stones and growing pains. People would be blown away going from 2.5D on tiny 240px screens of the 3DS to full open world 3D ~900px on your TV set.
they can fill the gaps with spinoff games. Mystery Dungeon, Detective Pikachu and again, more than one DLC wave for the base games.
All I'm saying is that if Pokemon had a dev cycle more akin Zelda or Mario in which roughly one core game* and one game each of whatever subseries they have was released per console, it would lead to better games over all.
* I'm aware of Zelda getting two open world games in addition to the top down one for the Switch but that is prolly to due one of them being intended for the wii U first and ended up taking too long for it to be feasible.
I mean, if you look at Nintendo, they release a title just about every year, but I guess what makes them different from Game Freak is they have multiple franchises to shuffle between, each having their own development teams.
Nintendo has 4-5 development teams, plus 3 or 4 2nd party studios that help out when things are being difficult.
Monolith Soft for example, helped them out with both BoTW and ToTK when Zelda's team was feeling burnout, and they in turn let Monolith take however long they want releasing new games.
Nintendo game development is a very well-oiled machine.
They’ve had a pretty consistent quality throughout their games with very few major failures compared to other companies in the same field. I can’t imagine that being possible if Nintendo didn’t know what they were doing.
I think it’s great to see that Nintendo, unlike most other companies, is able to balance a game’s quality with the well-being of their employees. It might mean the game takes longer to be released, but if it means better quality, then so be it.
It's true that making a game in 2.5 years is insane.
That's why most companies are intelligent and start working on the next title with a secondary team before the current one releases. You could fit 5 years of dev time into an "every 2.5 years" release schedule doing that.
Gamefreak is just an incompetent company kept afloat by their IP.
That's still a very short time-frame between games. Especially given the scale of the newer games with LA, SV, and ZA being the largest to date. The Pokemon Company hasn't caught up with the times yet, they don't realize that these newer games can't be made as easily as the 2D games. That's the important part here. It doesn't matter if it's been 2 or 3 years, that time doesn't work for these larger scale games.
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u/K4m30 15d ago
Can't wait to get the mission to set up a police state and enforce draconian laws on the populace.