>>41625047If I had to guess, I would say the reason that they cut pokemon is because they have some sort of contract with Creatures Inc. stipulating that they could only use their models for either only 3DS games or a certain number of titles. And then after this contract expired, Game Freak had to contract Creatures Inc. to develop an entire new set of models. Creatures Inc. probably raised the price of their models in this new contract due to being in a favorable negotiating position, and as a result, Game Freak decided to cut most of the models in order to save money. This would explain the inexplicable aspect of the new models being nearly exactly the same as the old ones, but being slightly different in hex count.
