>>35682494Less development time, much smaller dev team. Reused assets from XY and reused game from RS. Not included content from Emerald.
It was a rushed game.
And it looks like it sold well compared to others but that's an illusion, because it was in the market for two years before the next games came out, more than the other remakes. They could have extended development time a few more months and we'd have got a remake that made Hoenn justice.