>>45290551Placeholders aren't fucking betas, you drooling spazz. There's also the fact they had anime and merch lines to inform so they could get shit ready for release of the game too. The likelihood they were running as they had under Tajiri's infinitesimal because the whole point of him stepping back was to let Masuda, who he'd recognised as having the plan when it came to directing games get on with directing the games.