>>52406419>To rush out SM for the 20th anniversarySaddest thing is, thats not even true. they scrapped Z in order to put more resources into HarmoKnight - which was moderately successful, and Tembo the Badass Elephant - which flopped.
It's this Tembo game from 2015 that really killed Pokemon Z. Gamefreak decided to take a gamble and take the focus away from pokemon in order to develop a backup IP and it didnt work out. The end result being we got a mediocre platformer for pc/ps4/xbone (ballsy for developers with only barely functioning 3ds experience at the time), and gen 6 ended unfinished as a consequence of this bad decision.
I saw a video on this, highly recommend it's worth a watch.
https://youtu.be/g7vwuKXp4Ag 