Because they are partial owners and the quality of the games is an important part of the IP, so even if they are a little tight on cash the the rest of the parties involved should also be contributing to the budget, especially TPC and Nintendo.
Strange that an account made in 2017 with 8 posts would suddenly show up in a thread like this to thank Masuda for the cull
AFAIK they own 1/3rd of the IP. So, if correct, they are making 1/3rd of the profits of the IP. Not just the games. Everything. Because they own 1/3rd of the IP as a whole.
Game Freak is not a starving indie studio and Nintendo is not a company known for fucking developers over.
Don't listen to them, rescaling models and skeletons is simple.Dynamax Arcanine:
Pokemon X/Y Arcanine:
So you're telling me that they remade this model from scratch, and yet it looks exactly the same as the 3DS one from 6 years ago? (apart from the texture resolution)
Jesus Christ.
This is still my point though. A lot of people don't battle competitively, so perhaps they should just scrap that entire mechanic as well? It's all part of the Pokemon package. Breeding, training, battling, collecting, adventure, etc. all make the game greater than the sum of its parts. Losing any of it is a detriment to the overall experience for most players. Why is collecting the one that has been cut off at the knees?
Because every new Pokemon game has had every Pokemon up to that point in it and for years they have said that they cared about our Pokemon and even monetized that with Bank. They came out and announced Home before E3 and talked about it like it was going to do the same thing as Bank and then at E3 during the Treehouse they snuck this detail in. Every time they've talked about this they've only made it worse, going as far as to lie about things like remodeling all of the Pokemon from scratch when in actuality they are using the same models and animations.
This is how I feel too, except I never pre-ordered it. Even if you're like me and only own a Switch, there are still many more deserving games this year to spend your money on. It's an even less appealing prospect if you own multiple consoles
I think people underestimate what word of mouth can do to a game like this which primarily has a younger audience. Let's Go had a tepid word of mouth and from what I could tell, they sold much below expectation. So much so that by the March financial report, Nintendo had only shipped around 600,000 more copies in addition to the 10 million stock retailers were still going through. The Let's Go games have practically shown no legs of any kind in sales, which is a real problem for an evergreen title like Pokemon. 10 million seems to be the lower baseline for Pokemon games, but I think Nintendo wants Sword and Shield to sell 15 million or more, and anything less than that could be a real problem for their financials
Sun and Moon had 300 pokemon in it's Pokedex, which Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon bumped up to 400. Given Sword and Shield are the first games of the generation for Pokemon, I expect the pokedex to be between 300 and 400. This is just my guess of course, but we're talking about a company here that programmed the Island Scan pokemon into Sun and Moon - they were catchable natively in Alola - but did not add the Island Scan pokemon into the Pokedex.
That would be great! If they would just come out and say that, then this whole thing would probably blow over pretty quickly! Two issues though...
Considering the "serious" in quotes, I assume this is partially directed at me. I am not a fan of people trying to equate #BringBackTheNationalDex with targeted harassment. That means someone is directing violence at a person to intimidate them.
Tweeting Masuda on Twitter isn't harassment, lol. Masuda can put his Twitter on protected if he doesn't want people contacting him. It's not like it's a personal account - he advertises himself as a member of GameFreak on it. He invites every message he gets with all the boneheaded things he says. I hope he remains afraid to go on Twitter for as long as this bullshit goes on. Fans aren't going to let him spout whatever he wants anymore after taking a giant dump on fans.
