>>57482748Anon, please go look at any other game made in the past couple years or earlier. Now compare it to this game. This looks like a Wii game imo. GameFreak shouldn't be struggling this hard. And it isn't just the hardware limitations because there are plenty of Switch games (and even other Pokemon games) that look better than this imo.
It would not surprise me one bit if GF put an insanely unecessary amount of modeling smoothness into their character models, causing performance issues. They have done bizarre things in the past that highly impact performance for their games. They really struggle with 3D for some reason. A company working on one of the biggest entertainment franchises in the world shouldn't be in this position.
Therefore, it leads me to thinking it is one or more of these scenarios:
A. The Pokemon Company / Nintendo is rushing them / giving them a shoe string budget
B. GameFreak is still struggling after these years and these many games
C. GameFreak doesn't care because they will meet the same amount of sales regardless
Scenario C makes the most sense, but it could be all 3.
