>>32486145>entire argumentHow so? The sales and moving in between Generations being a stupid move have nothing to do with that. GF explicitly stating they want to see how Switch does before focusing on it is also unrelated to that. So that is 3 out of the 4 points I made that aren't affected by whether they were allowed to touch Switch or not.
As for the first part, the development time, it still isn't affected much. They were still working on Generation 7. Unlike with XY, ORAS and SM, where they were developed for the same system and used a roughly similar engine, Switch is a completely new thing. Simultaneous development would be a lot harder and resource heavier. Especially so for a small company like GF. Even if they had been working on something for Switch since 2015, contrary to what they themselves have said multiple times, the development time isn't going to be cut by much.
