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adjl posted...

To be fair, Monolith is staffed entirely by absolute wizards of optimization, given what they've been able to squeeze out of the Wii, WiiU, and Switch with each Xenoblade game. They aren't necessarily a standard to which other studios can be reasonably held.

That said, there are plenty of other games on the Switch that also look much better than S/V and the only reason S/V looks like it does is because Gamefreak was too incompetent/lazy/rushed to put in the optimization work it would need to look and run better. It doesn't necessarily need particularly HD textures, since that's not the art style they're going for, but the environments are pretty barebones and still perform horribly despite not having much going on.

Pokmon is the biggest selling franchise of all time