>>38488470>missing why it's the most lucrative franchise on the planetbecause selling to kids and manchildren earns more than trying to shift focus and target audience to spastic grafixfags. Remember, the franchise is powered by the Game Freak games, but outstrips them in terms of revenue generated.
>not understanding why it still looks like it doesI know the "GF is an indie studio, understand" meme, but at the same point, you're ignoring the fact GF have been coding for potatoes for fucking years and suddenly are on their first HD-capable console with the franchise. Until they get used to the fucking thing and having power to shit about with, they're going to make what they know, only upgraded. (see Gen I compared to Gen II, Gen IV compared to Gen V, Gen VI compared to Gen VII, where each subsequent Gen improved on the past Gen on the same hardware). You're also ignoring where one of the founding members of Game Freak stated that photorealistic graphics don't work for their vision of the series (hell, it took 20 years before they felt comfortable making a live-action movie as the tech wasn't there to fully do it justice till now and even then, they stuck to the cutesy official art instead of "realism).
