>>53815111Thank you, no one points this point here and it really speaks to the hypocrisy of some eternally buttmad retards on this board.
Also, inb4
>B-but muh (second) biggest franchiseLol, just lol. Most of Pokemon's revenue comes from merch, so where do you think the money goes, to the main series' budget? No, biggest money maker gets the biggest budget.
TotK was given way more time and had more dev resource pumped into it, two things that besides dev skill, is what can make or break a game. That's not even a guess, either, the last 3 remakes were outsourced, 2 to tantalus and 1 to grezzo, so the actual devs were focusing on this one project since they knew they were making it, which was as soon as mid 2017, as late as mid 2018, full force. Not only that, they seem to have blown so much money on it that they felt the need to raise the price by 17%, and that's with expecting huge sales.
GF, on the other hand, has less staff and only resourced 1 release across the entire main series. Even then, they sent one of the longest serving game directors/producers to oversee it. This person also happened to be the main composer for damn near all the games, and would have been actively working on at least 2 other titles during that time. These games continue to sell well, so it isn't going to change.
Game Freak's "excuse" is that they don't get the time, the money, or the people to churn out a perfect game every year and they're never going to get it. You can sit there seething at their perceived laziness all you want, but they don't get a fucking break. They put out functioning games (barely, but still) every year, formerly every 2 years.
Are they the best games ever? No. Are they mediocre? Absolutely. Could any of these other Ninty teams pull this shit with all of GF's limitations? No fucking way. GF works hard, gets shat on constantly, then continues working hard.
