>>58852735Maybe because Tajiri still runs the shop and wants to see Game Freak (the studio) evolve itself. Every non-pokémon game they released since the 2000's has been a result of Gear Project and the studio's desire for their staff to push themselves, to behave more as Game Freak staff operated BEFORE hiring on an entire studio of people to make RS. They want programmers doing art direction, want planners to become character designers and want artists stepping up to direct entire projects. They want their staff to be renaissance men and women - capable of taking charge of ANY aspect of a game's cycle, to best push out more Pokémon games. I mean, they're only hiring college grads who have portfolios of more than one aspect of game development at this stage (no longer taking *just* artists or *just* programmers or *just* 3D animators. New hires must be useful, must be able to be sent to two or more departments of a project).
But yeah, why try, just shit away millions in a dev budget for a game series they outright said was only ever going to be aimed at pre-teen children and casualfag retard adults.
