>>43173295No they weren't retard. Pokémon is their job, Gear Project (ie what gave birth to LTH) is when they have their company work done, they can work on personal ideas, which if they get enough internal support from, they get to take a small number of people with them to make their little game.
The majority of the team working on SM, were working on it to ship date. If it wasn't the pokémon they were working on, why were so many required to work on other areas of the game (especially as Ohmori also said it was so late in development,he couldn't make new assets for the trials themselves)?