>>54280580Because Game Freak is both a terrible dev *and* it makes too many games at once without putting the proper care into them.
The only time a game got delayed was DP in 2005 and even after that delay, the game still ran like ass and was bare bones after the story.
Compare that to say TOTK where Aonuma personally playtested the game for a year, and despite that game also coming with bugs, they are nowhere as prominent nor game breaking as SV’s. TPC couldn’t even play test their fucking VGC stage for Worlds.
The video games are just a marketing cost for the real product - merchandise. That’s why Game Freak is making each Pokémon more memorable by giving it a gimmick (usually multiple forms), turning it humanoid, and connecting it to a past Pokémon in some way. That’s why Game Freak introduces a new batch of human characters in every game with superficial personalities and unique looks. Their personality can be described by their appearance so it is easy for casuals to understand that Lillie = wealthy girl and Nemona = spunky girl next door.
Pokémon is a quantity over quality franchise. While Mario and Zelda get 1 or 2 new AAA games over an entire console generation, Pokémon gets at least 4. They are also smart enough to outsource all remakes to competent subsidiary companies within Nintendo.
Finally rereleases and ports as scummy as they are still have new features to justify buying them again, while BDSP is just slightly upscaled DP.
