>>47948108I don't think this is a pattern. This is complete speculation but I'm guessing this is probably what happened
>Sun and Moon sells well but they know it was plagued with development issues>Hear that the Switch is in development but have zero faith it will do well>One team works on USUM, a half ass 3rd game, and the other SWSH for 3DS>Nintendo calls down and asks if they looked at the Switch dev kit and have anything going for it>GF lies through their teeth and the USUM team jumps to LGPE as a demo>Nintendo and TPC love it, say they have to have it out for holidays >LGPE sells gangbusters>GF has to scramble and port SWSH to Switch but don't have time to optimize so they cut corners and content left and right>TPC is disappointed with this and the bad press the game gets, even tho it's a million seller>Asked how this happened>Haha I don't know...>GF is forced to move their offices to the Nintendo building>TPC tells them they must work on an open world Pokémon game>GF is too proud to accept help from other devs but puts all hands on deck>TPC has the remake outsourced so GF is not distracted>Legends is getting super hyped up and TPC sets a firm release date>meanwhile all these spinoffs are being made by other teams outside GF>All a test to see if GF can improve>Legends will sell well but TPC is listening close to the critical response to determine the future of the games>GF just wants to fuck off and make indie games, please understand 