>>45841637>make a 3DS game>mid development, you adapt it for the switch instead>handheld -> most efficient console of your partner company at the moment>you deliver areas way graphically inferior to your previous title (lgpe)>50% price increase>remove extraregional pokemon>no problem, less pokemon means other aspects of the game will have more work put into them>tell this to the customers>actually you do not put more work put into any other aspect>50% price increase>people throw a tantrum over your game>long awaited tv console mainline pokemon game>the switch is much more popular than previous handheld consoles>sale proportions relative to the console success atm (something strongly related to the sales of previous "new generation" titles) imply you could get close to reaching 30 million sales>only 18 millionFrom a business perspective, its disastrous, yeah tpc earns a lot more from merchandise, but its still a notable ammount of money lost over this. Selling 10 million copies less than what they could have sold in other circumstances, just with the price tag of 60$, comes to more than half a billion dollars in lost money, and that isn't taking the potiential lost DLC sales into account.
I always said that Gamefreak are not just greedy, but more incompetent instead.
