>>41826385They gave three at the time in the treehouse stream and all of them were bullshit.
Especially the "We don't want to make you wait." one while more and more of us have been calling for delays for a decade precisely because they've been fucking cutting shit.
As for the other two, balance is bullshit when you've combined stuff like Megas and Z-Moves into one thing, and included Pokémon like fucking Charizard, Eevee, Meowth, and Pikachu because you know they're there for marketing reasons.
If those alone hadn't appeared it would be much more believable that they would cut anything and not just anything they think isn't marketable even with Dynamax shitting up the actual balance because it would lend credence the fact that this isn't about making more money with the least work possible.
Finally, animations and graphics have never been where Pokémon or any Nintendo game particularly excels and in particular when the game has nothing worth spending time looking at the damn thing to do. Which removing Pokémon also hurts since it reduces the things you'll face in ANY postgame making it inherently worse no matter what there is to do because less opponent options is always bad.
There's a reason one of the complaints about BotW is enemy type. And it is absolutely a correct one. More enemies means more variety to figure out how to face down.
None of their excuse fly in the face of demands for a delay though.
TAKE.
THE.
FUCKING.
TIME.
TO.
BRING.
ALL.
CONTENT.
BACK.
Every discussion about their excuses or even possible actual events that they're covering for is over with those words.
It doesn't matter how hard things are when you can take whatever time you want and no one would complain about it as long as you made the wait worth it.
Not taking the time to do so is actually what's causing some people to demand a game 20 hours later. You don't take the time to add the content to allow them to play, then they're going to demand another one ASAP.
