>>45002046>>45002064>>45002087No, Masuda shouldn't be fired. He directed some of the best games in the series, and he's not responsible for the mess that Gen 7 was, or the Gen 8 Dex cut. That's on Ohmori and Ishihara (more so the latter for letting an idiot like Ohmori direct games).
Masuda and Tajiri aren't the bad guys here. It's out of their hands at this point. Tajiri can basically do fuck all since Pokémon has become a huge corporate entity, and ownership is split between GameFreak, Nintendo, and Creatures Inc.. Though Creatures does fuck all at this point in regards to the main series, they really just worked on a bunch of spin offs, and did some modelling for ORAS.
If Pokémon had only stayed as a game and not a massive multimedia franchise GameFreak would have more actual control over it without having to appease Ishihara and other TPC execs.
