I think both Game Freak and Nintendo are very hidebound in their thinking; Nintendo seems to insist on making underpowered shit that sees games get stripped down for it (NMS for instance), and archaic systems (only one save file for Pokemon, really?) and Game Freak has only ever developed for Nintendo, and they also use archaic game mechanics (or were up to 6th or 7th gen, anyway.)
And Pokemon has kind of restricted itself to showing us its world ONLY from the eyes of a Don King sort of fighting team manager. But we see glimpses of the day to day partnerships (Fire pokemon working with cooks, and just plain old household helpers and friends) ...
And the fact that they won't cross-platform Pokemon but not everyone wants to buy a Switch just for Pokemon.
I'm kind of ok with that. I think that by maintaining a closed ecosystem they've walled themselves off from a lot of the cultural problems infecting the rest of the industry space.
I think both Game Freak and Nintendo are very hidebound in their thinking; Nintendo seems to insist on making underpowered shit that sees games get stripped down for it (NMS for instance), and archaic systems (only one save file for Pokemon, really?) and Game Freak has only ever developed for Nintendo, and they also use archaic game mechanics (or were up to 6th or 7th gen, anyway.)
And Pokemon has kind of restricted itself to showing us its world ONLY from the eyes of a Don King sort of fighting team manager. But we see glimpses of the day to day partnerships (Fire pokemon working with cooks, and just plain old household helpers and friends) ...
And the fact that they won't cross-platform Pokemon but not everyone wants to buy a Switch just for Pokemon.
Nintendo only exists to sell Nintendos.
I'm kind of ok with that. I think that by maintaining a closed ecosystem they've walled themselves off from a lot of the cultural problems infecting the rest of the industry space.
Yeah, the console is there to sell the games.