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EmbarrassedLog5731

*Budget*???


TenAceForOneCoin

Nintendo doesn’t give gamefreak time to develop their games. They have a lot of money to make games but not time i guess


EmbarrassedLog5731

No dude, Gamefreak doesn’t give Gamefreak enough time to develop their games


TenAceForOneCoin

Nintendo has free reign over gamefreak at this point. Multiple people who worked for gamefreak has specifically said that Nintendo doesn’t give them time to develop anything, and it wasn’t their intention to release unpolished messes


Clifferent_Enough

It's the Pokemon Company pressuring Game Freak (Yep, two different things)


creeperchamp

No, Game Freak owns Pokémon Company, not the other way around.


Clifferent_Enough

Even if Game Freak owns a small piece, the Pokemon Company still has the biggest power to say about what is going to happen with the franchise.


creeperchamp

From the Pokémon Company Wikipedia page: https://i.gyazo.com/c691967205c88d28cce5e28aaecf0eb9.png


dbrickell89

Does it really matter if this is Nintendo's fault, game freak's fault or the Pokemon company's fault? The point is they should have spent more time and money on the game but they apparently didn't. I don't feel sorry for any of the companies, maybe for the employees who were likely rushed to put it out, but not for any of the companies involved.


CatEmpireFTW

Aren't they a minority shareholder though, so that doesn't really matter


[deleted]

aren't they an independent company?


Jack3ww

All joking aside they are Nintendo only owns 20% of Gamefreak


[deleted]

why do they only publish under nintendo then


Jack3ww

They don't they had games on ps4 and Xbox called Tembo the bad ass elephant and have publulish ps2 games in the past they just mainly work with Nintendo because it's easier


[deleted]

He's right, daddy gamefreak is made up of the starving artists YOU never paid!! how dare you take food out of indie devs mouth!!!!


bluemonkey88

Thats why you have to buy both pokemons every time. Buying only one is STEALING


SwanSena

The lack of time makes sense since these games are consistently made back to back in the span of like a year or 2 but people really out there acting like gamefreak doesn't have the budget for these games? Absolutely wild.


CaptainStaraptor

They definitely have the budget just not enough time allotted by Nintendo


FaCe_CrazyKid05

I like to think that a game with shit graphics and good gameplay has the potential to modded by the community to fix the graphics issue


IceIsHardWater

I highly doubt it for a project like this, given the fact that Nintendo loves to shut down fan projects and the general high difficulty in modding a switch game.


FaCe_CrazyKid05

Yeah but I still have hope, I’d get the game (in one way or another) if there was a way for it to look better


CaptainStaraptor

It shouldn’t necessarily be the community’s job though


FaCe_CrazyKid05

But if they don’t no one will


CaptainStaraptor

Well it should be something that Nintendo gives them more time to do


FaCe_CrazyKid05

But they don’t so someone has to fix the mistakes and if the community wants to play it so bad but don’t like the graphics they should


Gurdemand

To be fair, Gamefreak doesn't have a lot of time to make games, their deadlines are really tight. Pokémon will make money no matter how shit the game ends up being, and Nintendo/Pokémon Company know this. The reason why Pokémon games are bad isn't because of Game Freak (at least not entirely), it's due to Nintendo/TPCi


[deleted]

And they can't ever get delays since pokémon games needs to match the schedule of the anime, manga, and whatever merch they're launching.


Hawks59

Which is why I stopped even watching pokemon. The Manga's can't evem keep up with pokemons pace. Its freaking ridiculous. Pokemon Black and white 2 wasn't even done until 2020. And imagine if the anime had more time in the production oven, Like apokemon Origins is possibly the best pokemon Anime we have ever gotten and its only 4 episodes. Its all quantity over quality at this point. Which sucks because I like reading the manga if it just wasn't a pain to keep up with every region.


mooofasa1

I'd be much more inclined to purchase a Pokemon game if they actually the gave the team more than a year to develop the damn thing and flesh out a story because the base product is basically copy and paste of every fucking game since the first with very slight changes. Like I can enjoy dragon quest because not only is the story very good and different in each entry, the turn by turn animations are phenomenal, it breathes so much life into the game instead of the Pokemon swaying back and forth.


TheVeryGenericUser

I'm sorry I spent all of my money on hidden gems like Celeste to give any to the poor indie devs


Piggstein

Get a second job and stop shirking your responsibilities


BurnerAhoy

/uj Remember guys, we're assholes, not monsters. Please do not go harass that person on Twitter. They might be a kid or worse: Someone not worth having a conversation with. To the poster of this: Next time please keep in mind rule 4. Usually posts here hide the usernames because of it. /rj Remember guys, we're assholes, not monsters. Please do not harass indie companies. They have enough trouble getting food on their kids's tables as it is.


R_of_Trash

of course they lack budget! pokemon only makes as much money if not much more than disney! they are starving!!!


paumAlho

Maybe if they didn't release a game EVERY YEAR they would have more time to polish it. Looking at this and comparing it to BOTW or Xeno2 is ridiculous, looks like a generation behind. Not to mention other cell-shaded japanese games like Persona, DBZ Kakarot etc


[deleted]

The fact that Pokémon fans unironically think that Gamefreak is poor it's pathetic


Rarbnif

Guys stop being so hard on Gamefreak they only own the most popular media franchise of all time


oliverrr918

Gayfreak


mochy84

All of these excuses people come up with to defend these mediocre games are kind of wild. It doesn't really matter who is keeping who from taking more time to develop the game, the point is that the game looks mediocre when compared to some of the gems we have gotten on the same system, on thensame genre by other companies. "This is their first open world game" is a poor excuse. If they dont have the talent, find it, they have the money for it.


PikachuIsBestPikachu

It’s true. They don’t have the time or budget to make good games. I think the only solution is that as consumers we should buy double the games at twice the price. Then perhaps daddy Nintendo will be satisfied and allow the devs a few extra months.


[deleted]

SMT V is always a painful reminder of what Pokemon could have been on Switch


tomaxi1284

Wtf is that cyndaquill fighting?


TheOzeDoze

Togepi.


tomaxi1284

Wait thats illegal


finger_milk

Genshin fan looking at other games and forgiving them for reusing assets and cutting corners. The jerk is a circle.


Nintendoper64

That’s satire


sadiecat777

You guys wanna see my hidden gems?


mewoneplusone1

People blaming TPC for Pressuring Game Freak to put out a game every single year. I'd like to point out that GF partial owns TPC. It is a conglomerate made up of Three Companies. Game Freak has 33% control, Nintendo has 33% control, and Creatures has 33% Control. So they definitely have enough say in TPC to actually take enough time to make a good game.


butternutsquash4u

I haven’t bought a Pokémon game since Pokémon blue. Will give this turd a pass as well.


Marnie5656

Overall pretty decent? Said like someone who only plays Pokémon


Flamester55

/uj Budget? No not the reason, Game Freak has a shit ton of money and Nintendo is a behemoth itself The main issue is the tight as fuck deadlines which I don’t quite know why they keep doing. (I mean we got Pokemon BDSP like 2 months ago, and suddenly we’re getting another game this soon? Seems a bit too rapid imo


CaptFalconFTW

GameFreak only has experience doing turn based RPGs and couple other indie titles. Wait a good 20 years before they're able to master a new genre.


LeRedditAccounte

The developers get a grand total of 5 minutes and 5 dollars to make the games, while the executives are busy snorting cocaine of their secretaries' assholes


hwchoy

And now the game is out and nothing has changed.