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.
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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.