#LTIERALLY THERE ARE SO MANY SOLUTIONS TO THIS PROBLEM AND A LOT OF THEM WOULD BE REALLY PROFITABLE

[llatimeria]

god the whole swsh thing is really frustrating bc this whole time i’ve been thinking that like, yeah, swsh is gonna be flawed. the dexit thing is dumb, gigantamaxing is dumb. Every Pokemon Game That Exists Has Dumb Parts, This Should Not Be As Big of A Deal People Are Making It Out To Be. It’s Physically Impossible for a pokemon game to be bad. gamefreak has way too many resources, and this franchise is just too big and lucrative, they would not let the game be bad. Every pokemon game up to this point has been a good, fun game, even if it’s had some dumber parts. They’ve all been High Quality and A Good Time.

but the more information that comes out abt swsh makes it look, uh. like a bad game. Just, bad! Not “Bad for pokemon”, just .. straight up bad! not fun to play, not fun to look at, and there’s little-to-no reward for playing it (no postgame or national dex...). it’s not just Not Living Up To The Potential Of Pokemon As A Franchise (which has been... kinda true of most games since like, gen5), it just... doesn’t look like it’s living up to the basic standards of console games. 

I don’t think this will be the End Of Pokemon. SWSH is still probly gonna make a profit and Despite Everything I Still Love Pokemon and I think that will be true for a lot of fans (Sonic still has a huge fandom, despite Sonic 06 being a total flop, and most of the sonic games since have been uhhhhhhh mediocre at best), so nobody’s gonna kill Pokemon completely. that would be a dumb move and terrible for all involved.

but if SWSH at least performs worse than they expected, someone high up enough might take notice and make the changes necessary to make the next games really good. hiring new people/maybe just taking it out of gamefreak’s hands entirely and giving it to a new team so Gamefreak can actually work on projects they feel passionate about, or making pokemon’s release schedule much slower so the devs can take their time to animate the Hundreds of creatures/characters AND make the plot + world cool and compelling without having to trade one or the other (Or in swsh’s case, PROBABLY NEITHER).