>>50584230>Man who said Hoenn's features like the battle Frontier and dungeons being removed in ORAS cuz of "muh phones"Has to be the most misquoted, out of context Masuda quote ever.
He never said this in regards to OR/AS at all - He actually said this circa XY's release, that they had to consider the newer generation of kids are used to playing on phones before their DS now. OR/AS, and Gen 7 after it had a noticeable increase in difficulty following the complaints levied at XY.
Around LGPE's release, he re-iterated again that he had seen complaints in the past of the games getting too easy, and they had designed battles specifically with challenge for seasoned players in mind in games going forward. (Necrozma, Trace having a Mega, a few of the tougher Galar battles like Allistair, Leon and Mustard, Sinnoh's late/post-game stuff & Volo should all come to mind.)
It never, ever had anything to do with axing content.
Regarding Battle Facilities, there was a comment (possibly from Masuda, I can't recall exactly) where it was mentioned that very few players seemingly actually played the Frontier, hence the decision to focus their post-game content on things like the Delta episode - But following the backlash to OR/AS, The Ultra Games had three Battle Facilities to play in, the most since the last appearance of the Battle Frontier in HGSS. Galar too also added the Galarian Star Tournament and the Battle Dojo Mastery challenges to compliment the Tower in DLC. While not quite a full Frontier, it's a noticeable increase in optional Post-Game Battle/Facility content since BW over ten years ago.
This idea that Masuda is mischievously gutting content because of an out-of-context, almost decade old offhand comment in an interview needs to die.
