>>35052730You can say 'Not including patterns' all you want, but there are integral patterns which exist beyond the game and extend into the rest of the franchise. Everything in Gen 7 is about halfway complete - The number of episodes in the anime, the number of movies, the TCG. You can't deny that these are not important to the game as Masuda himself has said that the games work alongside the other elements of the franchise.
>"As we develop the game, we get the TV, TCG and animation teams in to play it so that they have a better idea of what the world, the characters and the Pokémon are like. We’re all creating the characters and the settings together so that they’re consistent across movies, games and trading cards.”Ohmori and Masuda admitted in the Aug 2017 interview with GameInformer that they were waiting for after Christmas 2017 to find out how kids use the Switch so they could design the fundamental aspects of Pokemon Switch's gameplay.
And of course the job postings, which everyone likes to screech about '6 MONTHS!!!' completely ignoring the other fixed 1 year localization contracts that don't start until June as well as the fact that 6 month contracts (That also start in June) are only offered due to the nature of freelancers - They don't understand how translation teams actually work.
Oh and it doesn't matter what Nintendo say, Masuda has already said that they don't impose deadlines on GameFreak.
But sure, keep believing in conjecture and whatever the flavour of the month leaker is saying.
