>>33902599>different regions in post-game"Let's devote a massive portion of our time and resources to an unbalanced second region so that we can't properly balance the first region either, and the whole thing ends up a big mess." - Board Meeting for Gold/Silver
>battle facilitiesThere is no good reason to remove this sort of content, that's true.
>walking pokemonTakes a good deal of time to make and animate all those smaller sprites/models, but I'm sure they could have worked them in somewhere if HG/SS was able to.
>basesTakes away time and resources for other gimmicks, and it's obvious even Gamefreak knows every Pokemon game is basically the same except new Pokemon/Moves and which gimmick that particular game features. Gimmicks are HALF of what make each game feel any different at all.
>pss systemThey're retarded, but it kind of ties into the gimmick thing. They like to do something different every single time with these features and the interface.
>convenient egg hatchingDidn't they just announce some thing in USM that's going to make it the easiest it's ever been?