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SantaRPidgey posted...

Do they need to be restructured to hire/borrow a bigger development team? Their money/resources ratio of pokemon is probably way wider than any first party nintendo franchise.

yes

Mainline Pokemon has been ingrained with Game Freak on handhelds for decades. They've never needed anything like this before, they've done their own thing with the mainseries Pokemon games and where they were (on handhelds) they were fine - even if already showing strain on the 3DS titles. Pokemon being able to get away with cheap production and major returns is a feature to Nintendo, one that feeds into Pokemon's autonomy which is definitely the most disconnected major series to Big N.

These expansions don't just happen as needed, Game Freak just has a lot of growth to do, and if you're talking about taking roles of Game Freak from the mainlines you've got Japanese corporate culture to deal with protecting the dev team.

Can't stress enough how disjointed Pokemon is among the many companies managing it.

All that *needs* to be highlighted though is that, as SEP pointed out. This isn't even the mainline, they announced the next Pokemon games along side this for a reason. Wait to see how that true next gen Pokemon Gen turns out instead of getting our panties in a bunch over a reimagining spin-off series that's dumbed down as its very concept. Let's Go is a simple side-project they've been doing in the meantime while they're making use of the actual development time they need on the major project.

Nobody here (me either) really has any clue what's going on in the corporate side or any idea of what is and isn't "easy". What we do know is that Let's Go is a sidemeal entry with a lot of neat features in it we can enjoy right now while Nintendo & co all continue working on the simultaneously announced major series hopefully dropping next year. If you don't wanna spend +$60 on a sidemeal suit yourself, but I'll remind Santa that Opoona still originally released at full MSRP! Retail game prices have just never scaled that way.

We also know, historically and quite well documented, that people who complain about "lazy devs" are trash beings who don't know anything they're talking about.
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