It really seems like Gamefreak just can’t handle 3D games, but they’ve been forced to since the Switch is now the only main platform for Nintendo.

I feel like the games would really flourish if they were taken away from Gamefreak and given to a different studio to handle.

They get like 3 years between each major title, that doesn’t seem unreasonable. If they’re overwhelmed by remakes and side games then they need to outsource those parts, but maybe they’re worried about being shown up by another studio.

Violet/Scarlet is such a slog. Horrible performance, uninteresting boss battles and super annoying cutscenes sprinkled into everything. Some crap story about the “school” and “my dad died and is AI now” and a bunch of weird ass Chinese named Pokémon that look like shit. It’s been painful to get through just for the Pokédex entries and honestly I don’t know if I’ll finish my national dex, probably just find someone to trade me the ones I need still.

These new games are so fucking dogshit that I cbf even pirating them. They can get fucked.

They need to have a talk with the Zelda team

Good. The average AAA game takes at least 5 years to develop and they were working with barely 3

I went back to old games I was so disappointed in these. Has there been any improvements? I know dlc is about to come out, but I won’t hold my breath that will fix anything. I don’t want to give them more money anyway

Lol conversations on performance when a new console is just on the horizon.They'll just use the additional horsepower to just ram bad optimization through.

If only they had the time, they could go back to the gen 4-5 days

Well gamefreak needs to hire some optimizers. I know this is a worn out argument but ToTK just show how much the switch and handle if you actually take the systems limitations into considered instead of just lowering the graphics.

I wish they released Pokemon Emerald on GBA Online than I would be totally happy.

Gamefreak? Having 'conversations' about not releasing unfinished, unpolished garbage? Why would they? Pokemon fans have nonexistent standards and will buy it anyway no matter what. I wish I worked for these people, they really lucked into an infinite money printing machine.

There's really no excuse for these pokemon games to look the way they do in 2024 when games like tears of the kingdom exist. It's not like the pokemon company and Nintendo don't have the budget to make a pokemon game of that level. They just don't want to. Same goes for other Japanese game properties that seem to be resistant to modernize and reinvent themselves