It will kinda be disappointing if it's Gen 8, but looks like Gen 7 upresed. Hoping for the game to encourage off path exploration, because the 3DS games felt like walking in tight corridors.
You will never get that.
I think a big indication is that in the job posting it mentions:
And I am so happy for that. Not every game has to be open source... I am tired of if them already.
What else were they gonna do on the 3DS? Taking advantage of the Switch doesn't only mean making open world games.
The Pokemon models was always a terrible argument. As if level design didn't take more time to make than the Pokemon themselves
That is indeed part of the problem, but comparing 3DS games to PS3/XB360/WiiU/Switch games isn't fair. There's a lot of negativity coming from this fact alone and it's kinda weird considering we haven't even seen anything yet.
That is certainly possible as well I think most of us are assuming its the RPG because Nintendo announced an RPG and said it was 2018. Personally I don't think Nintendo can actually keep up the crazy release schedule they've had with the Switch and with nothing getting pushed back at all. The only way this makes sense to me is if US/UM was done by a small team and this new game has been in full development for at least 2 years. It's possible and at this point even if it sounds crazy that certainly seems to be what Nintendo is nailing as of late, no one thought Xenoblade 2 was coming out last year and they managed to get that out while revealing that the game had been in development for quite awhile something I think most of us didn't think was the case before it actually released and if that was the case for Xenoblade I'm hoping its the case with Nintendo.
Well I think it depends, if they are aiming for a worldwide release, then localization should happen along with development. Isn't that what happened with Monster Hunter World just recently?
That's a very interesting point. Will be interesting to watch but from what I've heard 2018 still isn't locked for a core installment.
Reusing the SM engine was always on the cards, unless they're using a third party engine, there isnt enough time to rebuild an engine again (they did for SM). It's a matter of how far they can push this engine and what features it has
I mean, how many years do one need for that? If the game isn't disruptive enough, as you say, it won't be because of time constraints I think.
It is more of the same. They've publicly said that people expecting a Breath of the Wild style reimagining will be disappointed. The "disruptive" rumor was nothing.
I not saying there will be no advancement from S/M. I just think that with a lot of effort being required due to the change of platform, I can't see the game design itself being 'revolutionary' so much as 'evolutionary' for a 2018 Switch iteration.
Development would have probably started well before Sun and Moon were released.
