>>38679120Honest talk here, you do realise Game Freak need to teach themselves how to program for the Switch? That this is the first time they've had anything near as powerful as Switch? It's like asking the boy racer in the opel corsa with the bangin' sound system and oversized exhaust to drive a Formula 1 car. Not going to happen without a lot of time and training. this is what Gear team is for - they can learn how to make games in HD without having to risk doing so while also trying to make the next pokémon game and potentially fucking that up by doing both at the same time. Look at it this way, here's what GF were coding for when the Gens released and the Home console of the day Nintendo were selling.
>Gen I - Gameboy (NES tier)/SNES>Gen II - Gameboy (NES tier)/N64>Gen III - GBA (SNES tier)/Gamecube>Gen IV - DS (Gamecube tier)/Wii>Gen V - DS (Gamecube tier)/Wii>Gen VI - 3DS (below Wii tier)/WiiU>Gen VII - 3DS (below Wii tier)/Wii U>Gen VIII - Switch/SwitchKinda hard for them to get an understanding of what they can do with environment building, when they were always limited to how they could portray the environments due to what the hardware actually could do.