>>54264529They don't want to but its fundamentally still theirs. Pokemon is slowly corroding its own reputation despite having such a low bar to hit, which is realistically the only reason Nintendo would absorb TPC.(Though I doubt they wouldn't just make a "TPC2" down the line in this sort of scenario)
It's not really even that much of a strain due to how close the companies are. Its very minor all things considered, though that there is one obvious point that is true.
The way Pokemon went is very much what Nintendo wanted, outside of the whole looking like shit/running like shit thing. That would be the main focus for a "Nintendo Pokemon".
To make Pokemon a much more clean look to have as one of their constant top dogs. Poor overall gameplay comprehension doesn't reflect as much as those as its much easier to make bad press on bugs and visuals.
Pokemon already did its "great innovation" and thats ran over smoothly, so why attempt to actually shift Pokemon to a more solid game plan?
Course Nintendo realistically has the tools to pressure TPC and Gamefreak anyway so why not just restructure those rather than deal with a bunch of extra crap. Its very much a theorectical to think that the effort is worth it to abort the current structure entirely.
Even cutting out Gamefreak like a tumor and retaining TPC is decently unlikely, but its still leagues ahead of both being killed. Nintendo is insanely unlikely to directly absorb Pokemon.
>>54264613Switch Era Pokemon suffers from mostly basic as fuck issues that you don't need a large scale team to fix. They use bad textures, they have to be low res due to optimization issues, most of their lighting seems like weird stock optionsand they don't even understand basic techniques like how to avoid tiling.
Upscaling art teams is only relevant if there's a huge quantity of detail needed, not if you need your details to be clean and consistent. In fact it makes it require more work to manage.
