>>35587746>More employees than Monolith Soft>>35580934>Has earned 18 billion dollars from one of the most successful media franchises ever created.A lot of that money goes to TPC and the rest so they can keep pumping out games
>Could easily expand their workforce tenfold or hire outside help at literally any instant if they pleasedMasuda says the team works better when it’s smaller and easier to manage
>Instead they decide to dumb down the games even more to make developing them easier (and more profitable)How so? And no Alola isn’t solid evidence. We don’t know if Alola was just a one time slip up or not
>Up to a dozen times more staff than most indie developers who have put out way better gamesThat’s completely subjective
>Junichi "Making games is too hard don't get your hopes up" MasudaNot realizing that the quote was addressing the insane hype around the game. Kids were literally begging for Skyrim with Pokémon and all regions
This board is slowly realizing that game freak only cares about jap kids and doesn’t give a shit what most other fans want. The entire reason they have a game every other year is so that kids don’t forget or abandon the series and so that they have a constant supply of new blood. All most every change since Gen 5 was done because to cater harder to jap kids and genwunners. If your not convinced compare the design philosophies of Gen 1-4 too 5-7
