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NEWS: Game Freak's Junichi Masuda Releases Comment About Pokémon Sword/Shield Games' Pokédex Issue

And let's be real: demanding all almost-1000 Pokémon is just bluster. Nobody is on pins and needles to capture and train Luvdisk, Alomamola, Deerling, Bidoof or Nosepass. This isn't about Audino or Flabébé or Slugma. Even if all 1000 Pokémon were put into Sword and Shield, nobody would give those a second look after shoving them into a box. They'd get a round of Ditto then start breeding the same Meta-team. Again.

JohnHawk wrote:

We all know how incompetent gamefreak's dev stuff is after the technical/programming disaster that was Sun and Moon after people got a look at those roms, so this is kind of just an extension of that.

Masuda knows what happens when you over-extend yourself, [urlhttps://www.gamespot.com/articles/pokemon-dev-says-rubysapphire-were-the-hardest-pok/1100-6452514/]he got hospitalized working on Gen III[/url]. You're absolutely right, this is new hardware and new tech that Game Freak isn't necessarily ready for. Of course they wouldn't be ready, they weren't gonna plan for a Switch game right after making Pokémon Sun and Moon three years ago when they had other stuff they were working on.

And let's be real: demanding all almost-1000 Pokémon is just bluster. Nobody is on pins and needles to capture and train Luvdisk, Alomamola, Deerling, Bidoof or Nosepass. This isn't about Audino or Flabébé or Slugma. Even if all 1000 Pokémon were put into Sword and Shield, nobody would give those a second look after shoving them into a box. They'd get a round of Ditto then start breeding the same Meta-team. Again.

The effort required to make sure people can train their almighty Watchog along with the other 1000 Pokémon would mean they'd need *years* of work. And Game Freak is on a schedule: they have to coordinate with a cartoon, comics, toy production, card production, and who-knows-what-else the Pokémon Company has in the wings to coincide with Sword and Shield. And Game Freak isn't CD Projekt Red or Rockstar North or EA: they're Game Freak. They're a smaller studio, the game equivalent of Pixar ([urlhttps://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=game+freak+number+of+employees]barely 150 employees in fact[/url]). They're not here to ruin lives, they're here to make a game.

But sure, Game Freak is "incompetent" because we can't be guaranteed to import, capture or use Spearow in Pokémon Sword and Shield.

It's kind of a load of crap tbh. The real answer is pokemon is one of if not the biggest franchises in the world, but gamefreak and pokemon team never staffed up or bothered to learn optimized 3D modeling since they were allowed to just stay on the portables only for so long (of which the last one, 3DS, was already years dated tech wise the day it came out). So they're just running into the issue MANY japanese devs ran into when 3d first became big 2 decades ago... now. Cause they were allowed to not have to worry about it for 20 years compared to everyone else.

We all know how incompetent gamefreak's dev stuff is after the technical/programming disaster that was Sun and Moon after people got a look at those roms, so this is kind of just an extension of that. Hopefully they learn from it and by the next pokemon game they've increased the staff and talent a bit to catch up to the rest of the world. They have the money for it after all. There's no acceptable reason for a modern switch game to look worse than a gamecube one from 15 years ago at this point, and them not being able to get all the pokemon in is just a symptom of that.

FinalVentCard wrote:

And let's be real: demanding all almost-1000 Pokémon is just bluster. Nobody is on pins and needles to capture and train Luvdisk, Alomamola, Deerling, Bidoof or Nosepass. This isn't about Audino or Flabébé or Slugma. Even if all 1000 Pokémon were put into Sword and Shield, nobody would give those a second look after shoving them into a box. They'd get a round of Ditto then start breeding the same Meta-team. Again.

You know, people tend to be extremely hung-up with the 1000 figure... and so what? Just because an extra digit has been added to the figure it doesn't mean that their workload has increased tenfold. It has been increased by how many pokémon and forms they add that specific generation.
And this is ignoring the fact that they took on a titanic task back in XY when they created models and animations that, to this day, are still being used as-is. 3DS games ran like shit because those models were made so this culling shit wouldn't happen. So now we're left with two generations with serious consistency problems and one with a partial dex.

As for Audino, Flabébé and slugma... Well, they ARE someone's favourite. Every pokémon is someone's favourite. That's the best part of the series and what it has thrived on for two decades. Those people have been sold not one but two subscription services to bring forward whatever pokémon they're attached to or want to keep moving forwards. Now they have no guarantee that they'll get to see their simisear, luvdisc or bruxish ever again (they already said that the Galar selection is partially based on popularity).

And as a player, it is a logistic nightmare, I absolutely am not looking forward to looking up compatibility charts every time I want to play a new game or battle with someone using with a different game pair (that is, assuming battling between different version pairs will be possible at all).

As a player, it is not my fault that they have decided they need to rush a game every year AND that they refuse to grow proportionately to the new hardwares and worloads.
This is also coming after years of the fanbase being disappointed or annoyed at many of Game Freak's design decisions and cut content (the most egregious one being the Battle Frontier), but everyone kept putting up with it because the core of the game was just so good. Now that core has been compromised.

I honestly think people should focusing less on what isn't there like the National Dex and focusing more on what is there like: tons of new Pokemon, a new to region explore, and the characters.

I honestly think people should focusing less on what isn't there like the National Dex and focusing more on what is there like: tons of new Pokemon, a new to region explore, and the characters.