It makes sense that they ran up against this problem. They took a schedule that worked for developing 2D handheld games and tried to use it to develop 3D handheld and later console games with very few changes. That's obviously going to create some issues, and it's good that they're at least aware that those issues have the potential to hurt the brand. S/V did well, but a huge part of that was how appealing "Pokemon, but open-world!" was, which got people to try it out despite the embarrassingly bad technical performance. That isn't necessarily going to work moving forward, now that people have had their fill of open-world Pokemon and are going to need something new to look past similar issues in future games, and that's going to create a need to avoid those issues to keep sales up.
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