>>44039412Could, sure, sure, but say you're Nintendo, and say you've had a franchise that you fund that for 25 years now has made insane profits out of super cheap games, would you feel inclined to suddenly quadruple their budget?
SwSh already has the largest amount of staff a Pokemon game has ever had and features multiple outsourcing companies too in it's credits, meaning it surely cost atleast twice what the 3DS games cost.
Nobody, specially not "Nin-bragged to shareholders how cheap BOTW ended up being-tendo would have been willing to help foot the bill for a fuck-huge fuck-expensive all-hands-on-deck Pokemon game from the get go. Specially when they have no reason to believe that four times the investment will lead to four times the profit, after all, SwSh still sold super well even though it looks and plays like shit, so clearly quality does not related to sales.
