>>45244994>intention of pokemon being a game played on handheld consolesI feel like you don't understand how high poly the models actually are. Your theory about their intention also isn't relevant because they still used the models for a home console release.
>simply scaling them up for a home console wouldn't look polished.Entirely dependent on the source, and we see from SWSH that all they really had to do to make the pokemon look passable was improve the textures/lighting.
> I think the real judge of gen8s quality will be future pokemon releases on the switch.I agree but at the same time I feel like people have been waiting for Pokemon to "Get it" since Gen 4 at the earliest and XY at the latest.