Realistically they need to first see if the reception to SVs launch has effected sales in anyway.
Their best metric right now is the DLC, perhaps comparing to SwSh DLC sales. However SwSh also had a DLC bundle that SV hasn't had.
The next pokemon game is going to be a 3D mmorpg which includes all of the previous regions. You pick which region you want to start out in and in which city and go from there. The wild pokemon in each route will not be static. You can trade and battle with other trainers. Each gym will have its own rules and scale based on the pokemon you choose for the challenge. You will be able to travel between regions.
The games are the core of the series. Without a new game there's no new pokemon, no new plushies or cards or backpacks. If the new games suckass no one gets any desire to get those new pokemon products. Just because they aren't the largest source of income doesn't mean they aren't the single most important part of the franchise.
If they could, nintendo and TPC would probably strangle every employee at gamefreak for how much damage they're doing to their cash cow's brand name.
What damage have they done?
SV is selling at a faster rate than SwSh did at the time and that's after back to back releases in the franchise too. People have zero standards.
What damage are they doing that is tangible. The game still sold exceptionally despite being a mess. The fans have proven there is no limit to how much you can lower the bar of quality.
Yes Nintendo cares so much that they're perfectly happy to not intervene and market these "brand damaging" games extremely heavily every holiday! Nintendo Seal of Quality is a marketing meme, always was, always will be. If they can get your money without putting in effort or meaningfully damaging their image then they're fine. And they're achieving both.
>NOOOOOOOOOOOO! WHY IS EVERY GAME NOT LIKE PLASS! ITS THE ONLY POKEMON GAME I EVER PLAYED SO ITS THE BEST GAME EVER
go back playing palworld you fakefans.
palworld is a meme like temtem. If pokemon learns anything from palworld it'll only make the games worse. I dont want pokemon to have any excuse to do the absolute bare minimum. last thing I need is pla but without any towns or any story at all
Pokemon fans will buy billions of the fricking worst annual slop available. Pokemon Company also currently gets away with paying Gamefreak like they're a struggling indie company. They do have actual billions to spend, but if it won't actually change sales that's horribly irrelevant.
Gamefreaks also not allowed to stop making Pokemon, and has been thoroughly burned out company wide for over a decade.
It's literally the opposite of everything needed to foster innovation and change, and Pokemon needs to collapse for its own sake.
Because itd be ass. Game freak would make the worse version of what this is supposed to represent the entire game look at pretty picture throw ball and nothing else. Game freak would sacrifice the scraps of what made Pla enjoyable just to make a game look "prettier" because "making a video game is hard"
This is literally arceus legends except it looks better. I imagine Switch 2 will have better looking games. I think if SV looked good and had more QA it would be globally praised. Personally I have never had a bug in BDSP, AL, SV, or SS so I think it's a bit overblown.
What really bothers me is that in SV they added these awful realistic textures to all Pokémon. They feel so awful looking now in comparison to how the game looks (cartoony) and how the old ones do. I hope they revert it but I'm doubtful. These screeching fans gaslit gamefreak into thinking the models of sword and shield were bad.
Or they could just, you know, make the people and the environments look better too. I fricking hate how from SwSh on the charcaters are slowly turning into these weird fricking cartoon people who look nothing like half the npcs in previous games. Try to find a character Opal looks natural sitting next to from any generation prior to 8, go on. You can't. She (along with a handful of other characters) is rendered in a completely different style from the rest of the characters in the games and they clash HEAVILY when placed next to each other. And from Galar on they continued that trend and it only got worse. From an art standpoint, the new games look like a literal dumpster fire.
Everything from the super simple environments with N64 style models and textures, to a weird art style shift for character design that only seems to effect like half the cast, to way too detailed Pokemon textures, to a lighting engine that makes everything look like play dough. All of this plus stuff like shitty map design and non functional cities and bad writing and lack luster animations. All of this shit fits together to make an absolutely abysmal game from an artistic stand point. Still somehow better than Galar, though.
I always hate when fan images put like a million Pokemon in a fake screenshot for their perfect game. Why the frick would you want there to be like 80 Pokemon on screen at a time? We have like 15 in SV and moving at any speed higher than walking is a fricking nightmare. They should've given us lures and repels to increase or decrease the amount of Pokemon that spawn at any given time and then opened that fricking spawn radius up to like 5 times its current size. Then just leave the base spawn amount at 15. It might feel sparse, but I swear to god it'll play significantly better. You don't need fricking 50 Pokemon on screen at any given time.
Fans with low standards that buy two copies of the same game as long as there is "Pokemon" written on it
Because you paid full price for this twice.
Speak for yourself I stop buying pokemon game after the LGPE fiasco
So when do you start doing that?
Obviously not, considering you still bought the game
Wtf are you talking about you donkey?
I don't even have a switch
fpbs
bad!
fippy bippy
Thats too confusing too many options which means we won't have the same gameplay experience which means I can't replicate a let's play
They hate you
>what's stopping them
this looks like shit, so nothing.
Realistically they need to first see if the reception to SVs launch has effected sales in anyway.
Their best metric right now is the DLC, perhaps comparing to SwSh DLC sales. However SwSh also had a DLC bundle that SV hasn't had.
>Arcanine, Vileplume, Snorlax, and Dodrio just casually in the wild
They already do make slop like this
Gamefreak
They are total amateurs when it comes to 3D. They need to hire more people.
The next pokemon game is going to be a 3D mmorpg which includes all of the previous regions. You pick which region you want to start out in and in which city and go from there. The wild pokemon in each route will not be static. You can trade and battle with other trainers. Each gym will have its own rules and scale based on the pokemon you choose for the challenge. You will be able to travel between regions.
When will people realize the games only exist to sell merch and shill the anime. The games themselves only make up a small portion of the income
The games are the core of the series. Without a new game there's no new pokemon, no new plushies or cards or backpacks. If the new games suckass no one gets any desire to get those new pokemon products. Just because they aren't the largest source of income doesn't mean they aren't the single most important part of the franchise.
If they could, nintendo and TPC would probably strangle every employee at gamefreak for how much damage they're doing to their cash cow's brand name.
What damage have they done?
SV is selling at a faster rate than SwSh did at the time and that's after back to back releases in the franchise too. People have zero standards.
What damage are they doing that is tangible. The game still sold exceptionally despite being a mess. The fans have proven there is no limit to how much you can lower the bar of quality.
Yes Nintendo cares so much that they're perfectly happy to not intervene and market these "brand damaging" games extremely heavily every holiday! Nintendo Seal of Quality is a marketing meme, always was, always will be. If they can get your money without putting in effort or meaningfully damaging their image then they're fine. And they're achieving both.
It looks good as a still screenshot, but in gameplay it would look distractingly busy for all those Pokemon to be moving around
It's coming, that was always the plan. It's a process, getting there. I guess the ride is just part of the experience.
>NOOOOOOOOOOOO! WHY IS EVERY GAME NOT LIKE PLASS! ITS THE ONLY POKEMON GAME I EVER PLAYED SO ITS THE BEST GAME EVER
go back playing palworld you fakefans.
Fan is short for fanatic, why the frick would I want to be a fanatic, and for a megacorp at that?
Nice short moronic parroted 4iq meaningless rhetoric. I hope you aren't actually a real person. You know nobody uses fan in that context right?
I for one welcome the competition. If it causes Pokémon to start making good games again, I'm all for it.
palworld is a meme like temtem. If pokemon learns anything from palworld it'll only make the games worse. I dont want pokemon to have any excuse to do the absolute bare minimum. last thing I need is pla but without any towns or any story at all
GF's ineptitude.
The fandoms low standards. Why try when the fanboys don't care?
Pokemon fans will buy billions of the fricking worst annual slop available. Pokemon Company also currently gets away with paying Gamefreak like they're a struggling indie company. They do have actual billions to spend, but if it won't actually change sales that's horribly irrelevant.
Gamefreaks also not allowed to stop making Pokemon, and has been thoroughly burned out company wide for over a decade.
It's literally the opposite of everything needed to foster innovation and change, and Pokemon needs to collapse for its own sake.
Pokemon falling apart internally and restructuring would be the best outcome. It's too big to completely disintegrate. Nintendo wouldn't allow it.
The games will forever be stuck on a shitty console and Game Freak can't make games.
Incompetence and shit engine.
It take much time to make and the pokemon fanbase at this point can't go a year or two without their low quality dose
Extremely short dev cycles and limited foray outside of pokemon.
Because itd be ass. Game freak would make the worse version of what this is supposed to represent the entire game look at pretty picture throw ball and nothing else. Game freak would sacrifice the scraps of what made Pla enjoyable just to make a game look "prettier" because "making a video game is hard"
Gamefreak
I would've loved open world with LGPE graphics (minus the chibi look for characters ofc)
Gamefreak need to steer away from realistic textures, it doesn't work for Pokemon, keep it anime-esqe
1. Brand alone sells the games
2. They're lazy
This is literally arceus legends except it looks better. I imagine Switch 2 will have better looking games. I think if SV looked good and had more QA it would be globally praised. Personally I have never had a bug in BDSP, AL, SV, or SS so I think it's a bit overblown.
What really bothers me is that in SV they added these awful realistic textures to all Pokémon. They feel so awful looking now in comparison to how the game looks (cartoony) and how the old ones do. I hope they revert it but I'm doubtful. These screeching fans gaslit gamefreak into thinking the models of sword and shield were bad.
Or they could just, you know, make the people and the environments look better too. I fricking hate how from SwSh on the charcaters are slowly turning into these weird fricking cartoon people who look nothing like half the npcs in previous games. Try to find a character Opal looks natural sitting next to from any generation prior to 8, go on. You can't. She (along with a handful of other characters) is rendered in a completely different style from the rest of the characters in the games and they clash HEAVILY when placed next to each other. And from Galar on they continued that trend and it only got worse. From an art standpoint, the new games look like a literal dumpster fire.
Everything from the super simple environments with N64 style models and textures, to a weird art style shift for character design that only seems to effect like half the cast, to way too detailed Pokemon textures, to a lighting engine that makes everything look like play dough. All of this plus stuff like shitty map design and non functional cities and bad writing and lack luster animations. All of this shit fits together to make an absolutely abysmal game from an artistic stand point. Still somehow better than Galar, though.
I always hate when fan images put like a million Pokemon in a fake screenshot for their perfect game. Why the frick would you want there to be like 80 Pokemon on screen at a time? We have like 15 in SV and moving at any speed higher than walking is a fricking nightmare. They should've given us lures and repels to increase or decrease the amount of Pokemon that spawn at any given time and then opened that fricking spawn radius up to like 5 times its current size. Then just leave the base spawn amount at 15. It might feel sparse, but I swear to god it'll play significantly better. You don't need fricking 50 Pokemon on screen at any given time.
BINTENDO