>>49175965It was also obviously given a sooner delivery date than GF need (after all, Game Freak managed to launch all games they had scheduled for Switch on time and in full as well as not being affected by the coff while the west needed to delay, defer and push back all releases not 90% complete). ILCA were making their first-ever game and there's enough oldfags at both Game Freak AND Nintendo to realise how shitty a devcycle Game Freak had with Gen I (and suddenly moving out of their comfort zone, regarding game development). They couldn't risk ILCA *not* having the game ready for christmas, much less delaying it till 2022 so made sure they could physically get games on shelves for launch, then patch in what's missing (thanks to the other two memeboxes and their pet devs, day one patches are now acceptable to normies).
Game Freak don't work to the "oh we can patch it" ethos, yet another perk of not copying the zoomie-era mentality regarding game development.
