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@KirbysAdventure By that logic Goku should have been in long ago.

@geox30 I don't think most fans wanted another yet another generic anime swordfighter. No, this was a very vocal minority asking for him.

I am with you, Doomguy or Master Chief would have been far superior, far more relevant 3rd party picks.

Or..... I don't know...... Waluigi, the guy the vocal majority has been clamoring for?

Or old school Gannon? Or Kraid?

What a huge disappointment..... Who looked at this game and said "We need more generic anime swordfighters"?

Imagine living in South Korea and being forced to preorder an overpriced, inferior demake of a classic just to get a shiny in another inferior game.

This is a perfect reminder of why I have grown to greatly prefer the Series X over the Switch at this point. Nintendo's disguisting greed and shady business practices get worse all the time.

@antdickens Sarcastic smiley emojis, "sorry you can't see what I am doing", ect gives off a very dickish, condescending tone. The latter particularly comes across as implying that everyone who disagrees is an idiot.

@KonamiSucks It's $100 for a mini console with 1 controller, 24 english games, and a bunch of Japanese games, most of which either are duplicates or will be semi-unplayable without an English patch.

TBH it sounds like a worse deal than the PS classic, and threatening limited availability is probably the only reason it will earn any sales.

On the other hand Sega isn't doing much better selling the 6 button controller separately. It's hard to believe that even with all the missteps NNINTENDO has handled their mini consoles best.

@Gamer707b Some people collect them, and apparently some people think they make cool looking paperweights.

TBH I would probably fall into the latter if there was an easy way to play the NEs/SNES classics on PC, but plugging them into my PC/laptop/monitor never seems to work.

@antdickens Geez, why do you feel the need to be a d!** about it?

And we aren't stupid, we know it's all about those affiliate links. You could try not treating your userbase like idiots next time.... I know in a post Gamergate world it feels like video game "journalists" can do no wrong but you may be surprised how many people turn on adblockers and quit using affiliate links after seeing "snark" like this.

@JaxonH It's more like a few thousand clocks, but yes it is basically that easy.

@Octane You keep saying it was inevitable..... It wasn't. It was a much bigger task to put 151 Pokemon in the originals than it would be to put in 1000 on the Switch...... Like I said before, I am pretty certain there are some PS1/2 games in the Yu-Gi-Oh/Digimon franchises that had unique arrival/death/battle/ect animations for over 1000 monsters, and they were all made from scratch for those games. So whats GF excuse when they have over 800 models already made?

You can't seriously argue that the 3DS can handle 800+ Pokemon when the Switch can't..... Especially when it's much easier for Switch to load data off it's internal memory, making games easier to patch.

@Yorumi Well despite what I said Pokemon has never been known for having a great meta,.... Not even after wishing for blessings from the Genies of Healthy Meta. But it's funny how GF says they are making cuts for meta yet still bring in overused Staples like Tyrannitar, Charizard, and Clefable. JFL.

Thank you genies!

@GrailUK It's literally the exact opposite of what you just said.

Someone who exclusively trains Kanto Pokemon will be in FAR better shape for Sw/Sh meta than someone like me who, outside of Let's Go, barely touched them at all.

@Octane Did you not understand what I said? How am I supposed to "make do" when, according to the current Galardex on Serebii, I don't even have a full team of 6 to transfer over..... Let alone a team with decent type coverage.

I have a feeling you don't use competitive play at all if you can say to just start from scratch like it's nothing. It takes dozens of hours to even halfway get a decent team formed, and that's without the grinding needed to level them up. It would be one thing if they were making everybody start from scratch, or even only allowing the Pokemon from Let's Go. But as it stands now it's a huge advantage to some and a collossial disadvantage to others. Nothing fair about it at all, and telling me to "make due" is asinine, like telling an Olympic athlete to "make due" when he is placed 5K behind everyone else.

And that's not even addressing the aesthetics issue. I have several shineys that probably won't be making the cut, and Shiny Raichu (my least favorite if you care at all) will be the only one that does pass.

Why should I play a game so clearly rigged against me? The obvious answer is to quit and not give GF anymore money.

@Yorumi Absolutely. Aside from Roserade I won't be able to bring anything I put effort into breeding/training that isn't coming from Let's Go.

It's like a giant punishment for using what I liked instead of what's popular or the original 151..... And even then it's still slim pickings for me.

@Anri02 There are multiple interviews from this year. He has stated quite clearly that GFs best/brightest are focused on Town and that their B-Team was handling Sword/Shield because Pokemon isn't their priority right now.

@Octane I wouldn't mind it so much if they were starting over from scratch and not allowing the transfer of any Pokemon. But at this point it's like they are punishing people for using the wrong ones, and its gonna give some people a huge advantage in the meta.

Aside from Mew, Raichu, and Roserade, I don't have a single Pokemon that over the 3/4 dozen or so I raised in the 3DS/Switch games that will transfer over..... And one of those is a mythical that probably can't be used anyways. So as the Galar dex stands right now according to Serebii I won't even have enough for a team, let alone a single tourney match (they are usually 3 vs 3).

I am pissed about the huge disadvantage this puts me at. Either allow everything from 3DS to come over, or nothing at all.

@JaxonH Pretty sure Yu-Gi-Oh/Digimon had games with over 1000 monsters in the PS1/PS2 era..... All made from scratch.

Yet the Switch/GF can't handle copy/pasting already completed movesets/animations?

@Anri02 Your last comment and this one too. It's getting tiring seeing your name pop up in my notification bar when you refuse to read any of the interviews related to the topic.

Seriously, please don't reply/bother me again until you read them. There's no point in having a debate with someone who refuses to educate themselves on the topic.

@Anri02 Please read the interviews I told you about before harassing me again. Thank you.

@westman98 They made plenty of money on the handheld games, but it's not the insane levels that Go made them.

But they should also realize that the profits Go earned them will be extremely difficult to feasibly sustain, especially when they don't have excellent mainline entries to further the characters/lore/ect.

I think this whole Fee2Play Microtransaction crap is a bubble, and I don't think it can get much bigger before it bursts.

@Anri02 If you wont take the steps to educate yourself on the topic then at least have the decency to keep your mouth shut and not disrupt other, more knowledgeable people from conversing. Thank you.

@Galenmereth
Says "I just can't".
Calls others autistic.

I think someone is projecting......

@Anri02 Go re-read the recent GF interviews.

@Anri02 I am saying if you care about Pokemon then you shouldn't be hoping that Town is successful. It will just further prove that GF is right and they don't need to waste effort on any sort of innovation in Pokemon.

@TheBlue10 Absolutely, they seem dead set against that though. It's a shame, the Colloseum and XD Gale of Darkness were outsourced and both were great

@Anri02 It sounds like you aren't thinking about it then. If Town bombs maybe Masuda or other staff at GF will learn to not prioritize their crappy new IP above what's been their bread and butter for over 20 years now. If they keep making lazy excuses for Pokemon games the fanbase will die.

Then again they know all this, it's pretty clear TPC is focused far more on the Pokemon mobile games than the Switch.

@Anri02 Because GF has publically admitted it's their highest priority and they have assigned their "B team" to work on Pokemon.

I know they did it because of the push to make Pokemon a more mobile "experience" and the threat that poses to GFs relevance, bit it's still pretty insulting to Pokemon fans.

@NCChris They shouldn't even have to do that. Supposedly they made fully detailed HD models then downgraded them for X/Y. That's why they charged like _10 or $15 for that Pokedex app when the 3DS first came out.

@Galenmereth Expecting a billion dollar company in control of one of, if not the most profitable franchise in existence to do its job before I buy it's product is entitled?

How are people this thick even able to function enough to use the internet?

You are obviously very uneducated on this topic yet you chose to speak on it anyways. Why? The overworked animations shown this far are even worse than the battle animations shown in the clip, with people literally spinning around the x/y axis with no movement whatsoever, Pokemon/trainers pop-in worse than some N64 titles, and stuff like Wingull floating in midair before stopping and starting 90 degrees and moving again.

Please educate yourself some before posting on a topic again. Thanks.

@Peterjr1 Did they ever announce how much Home would cost? I can't find that info anywhere.

@TuragaNuva Oh yes, they absolutely should be working overtime/weekends to get all the Pokemon in if that's what it takes. GameFreak has nobody to blame for their screwup except GameFreak, now they need to drop that crappy Town game and move everyone to Pokemon and do whatever it takes to fix it before release..... And since delaying it apparently isnt an option if they need to push crunch then so be it.

Getting really sick of the "crunch is evil" movement in video games when it is still accepted in pretty much every other field, most of which are far more essential than video games (I see "crunch" constantly in engineering, and if you screw up there people could die). Video game developers aren't special, sometimes overtime is required, especially when they've obviously been as lazy and unfocused as GF is.

As a side note I really hope Town fails. Badly.

@Sinister I thought everyone already knew this, so I am surprised to see an article acting like it's even a question. Did these people skip on the Let's Go games too?

For those of us capable of long term memory, we've been hearing about futureproofing Pokemon models since the 3DS first arrived. That's how they tried to justify the outrageous cost for their 3DS Pokedex/movedex app when the system was still new. It's been stated repeatedly that they were intending to use these models/animations for the foreseeable future.

The fact this bs wasn't called out by the "gaming media" the second it left Masuda's lips is just further proof of the fact that most "game journalists" are nothing more than extensions of the PR teams for the game companies.

Please understand.