>>45338600Nothing. What stopped them from making SWSH a wild area only game? The fact that it was built as a 3DS game. If they had intended it for Switch since the beginning of development then it probably would have been all open-world. When they moved it to Switch they probably tacked on the wild area as a compromise because they didn't have enough time to rework the whole game. That's my theory. Gen 9 will probably be open world and GF will realize it's actually easier to create big empty boring open worlds than handcrafted routes and it will become the new cancer and people will go "dude remember corridors?? so much soul :(("
