How can Breath of the Wild which was originally a Wii U release looks so much more refined and artistically appealing while running better than anything Gamefreak has made in the last 8 years?

[–] blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why would Game Freak improve their games if they keep selling like hot cakes?

It's that simple.

[–] missingno@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

Zelda also sells like hotcakes, and yet they still put effort into that one.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

also mr masuda said he was tired of pokemon in general, and will make this slop, this was all the way back sword and shield, when he shocked everyone about the half the dex being left out.

[–] Starayo@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Game freak still has no clue about doing 3D.

Besides BotW, compare the xenoblade games to 3d pokemon. Game freak just cannot make optimal use of the hardware that's there.

[–] KingRandomGuy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

IIRC BOTW was built on MonolithSoft's engine (the devs behind Xenoblade) so in fairness, those games are more-so the same exception rather than the rule. That said, even without the comparison, GameFreak clearly did not properly optimize the Pokemon games on switch, with stuff like loading the whole map's ocean at any given time.

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

In comparison to XC2 or 3, the recent pokemon games look like an insult, and a bad joke. I’m still mindblown by that Nintendo greenlit those releases, given how specific they are with other first-party game designs