>>55546818Sword/Shields development started immediately after Sun/Moon, Legends Arceus was started in Fall of 2018. All games are given about 3 years in the oven. However there is no strict rigidity to the teams, it's more like 2 projects being worked on with necessary people shifting around to and fro, the people that are shaping the games to be unique are the ones making bigger decisions like Directors, Planning Directors, etc., who are committed to directing just one project. Development grunts are shared but some innovations featured in a Team A game might not make it in a Team B game and vice versa because of the people manning the ship. For the other games like Let's Go & the DLC i think the teams are created with whoever's available, rather than a formalized group that repeatedly take those kinds of projects on.
