>>56970542You say that as if 3D was a fork-in-the-road decision and not an inevitability. I don't know if you remember this, but near the end of the DS era, pokemon was basically regarded as a lame fossil. Handheld gaming either made the jump to 3D or were preparing to, yet little pikachu was chugging along in the caveman sprites era despite attempts to have both ways. I know these days its all "3D bad 2D good" but you have to understand that a lot of people were sick of the sprites after 15 years. Imagine if the *3D*S came out, the entire gimmick being that it can go 3D, and Pokemon STILL looked like Octopath Traveler. Seems like a no-brainer to pump a little more juice into the brand by making a big deal of transitioning to 3D. And people really ate that shit up at the time, myself included.
Same goes for Dexit, it was a complete inevitability. Under the hood, they make games very differently from the last and accounting for whats now over a thousand critters and making sure they all work properly is unfeasible given the time and resources alotted into these games. If it didn't happen in Gen 8, it was DEFINITELY happening in Gen 9. I doubt they'll course correct if what they're doing now makes a lot of money.
