>>56958123I can dude, because we have proof of their dev cycles. they start planning out new Gens just before launbching the one they're finishing on (to use your example, they started SS just before finishing SM and they started SV some time in 2019 prior to launching SS). They make kids games dickhead. And kids don't give a flying fiddler's fuck for "gwaffix" like overly-invested manchild fuckwits.
They've had two teams working on their releases since 2007 shithead, they took '06-'07 off to hire more staff after needing to delay DP and realising they, the original staff and RS expansions COULDN'T handle the "game, rehash, remake" model any longer. From that moment on, Masuda worked on JUST new Gen releases, when Ohmori replaced him, HE just worked on new Gen releases, while people like Iwao worked on the rehash or DLC for the new Gen. And that's the point, they are and do. Because the games are chiefly for kids and kids don't give a fuck about how stuff looks, if the premise is that good. Worked on you as a retard kid, didn't it?
Because, and I honestly can't stress this enough, KIDS DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT GRAPHICS AS A SELLING POINT TO A VIDEO GAME. They're not you. they may GROW UP to be like you, granted. But while they're 7-10 years old, they're in the target demographic, which has been focus tested to fuck and back by Nintendo, Game Freak AND TPC and they know graphics aren't a dealbreaker. Will never be a dealbreaker. And only become one when the age of the child goes beyond the demographic, while simultaneously insisting she remains part of the demographic. Whole thing's built off kids, get yused to being and Adult Fan Of Pokémon already.
