People act like they selling two different games. Its the same game, most people buy one version. They do that for trading only.
I was annoyed too, especially as they purposely locked out a Go import for that Pokémon only. To be honest I saw you could pay people to trade a Mew off eBay and I'm considering that. Seems fairer.
The number of cut Pokémon has nothing to do with the number of new ones. Pokémon Black and White had 150 new Pokémon and didn't cut any of the old ones out of the post-game Pokédex.
You know, I thought these "Gamefreak needs to create new models" takes would stop after the game was leaked and it was confirmed they were reusing the 3DS models.
Wasn't there 2 year gap before Black and White? I bet if they hadn't been rushing to get a new gen out and taken another year, this wouldn't be an issue. We've had a Pokemon game every year for four years now. It didn't used to be this frequent.
Was it though or was that just guessing?
Not comparable situations. There's more Pokemon now and it's their first HD title.
Models are only one part of it - they need animations for lots of other stuff too. Battles, camp, overworld, etc,
The game is leaked. The models are the same.
It's their second HD Pokémon title.
I have said nothing like this. If you think I have, post it. Otherwise, fuck off with this bullshit.
Oh wow because I'll take your word in the models being the same as a developer who has NO REASON TO LIE ABOUT THE EFFORTS IN MAKING THEIR GAME. I guess when 8-bit Mario appears in Odyssey they were just being lazy and using the sprite from SMB.
You most definitely are presenting that case.
Would still require an update to SwSh for compatibility, might as well make money from it. Unless they plan on giving each release its own balance and metagame / roster, at which point they might as well just be doing the work to include all the Pokemon
Agreed. Absolutely it was money in the end. There should not have been any compromises to content, period. There's no way it was a director suggestion, it was a product management decision based on limited resources, which can only have been set by TPC, certainly the market didn't ask for a smaller roster of Pokemon. This isn't a mobile game with a minimum viable product, there should not have been any compromises on what to put into the final product unless they planned on doing DLC from the start, justifying leaving some things out (like managing a mobile release), or are blatantly fine with giving consumers as little as possible for as big a short term ROI as possible, which would be incredibly greedy and shortsighted, and I don't believe.
Do you want to wait for the data miners to confirm that they are the 3DS models? Just like in Pokémon Let's Go?
Why, because I'm telling you the truth?
I mean, yeah. I called them the 3DS models because they were first on the 3DS, but they were ridiculously detailed for the system and were made to be reused for HD.
Now it's "philosophy" and a hard cap at 400? Both of those are news to me. I thought it was either to focus on animations, balancing the meta, problems with the models not transferring over, or a design choice.
Honestly, it was about development time. They decided to cut back on something to reduce their workload and the national Pokédex seemed like a good flex point.
Seriously? Have we all forgotten about how No Man's Sky was at release?
