>>48557153Small *specialist* studio, basically the development problem is that Game Freak is virtually exclusively "The People Who Make Pokemon" and they hired accordingly.
Their overall development staff is absolutely *pathetic* for a studio with their margins, their experience was absurdly narrow, their attachment to the wider industry nigh-on nothing, and the less said about budget management when you are *making Pokemon* the better.
On the technical end, Game Freak has *always* been terrible. And it really, *really* shows now that they're being forced to use hardware people expect more from. It is my opinion that we would have no-joke been better off with Game Freak making a true fully-fledged Pokemon game for mobile simply because that level of technical ability fits better inside their "wheel house".
TL;DR: Game Freak suffers the EA curse of having an infinite money-bank, so they haven't needed to be *good* at the making of games.
