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A comment on Nintendo’s Philosophy: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology (2015). Parent comment

Re:Nintendo’s Philosophy: Lateral Thinking with Withered Tec... by huffmsa on Monday April 06, 2020 @06:21AM (#22792326)
They did bungle this last Pokemon though. But that's just as much in the Pokemon Company as Nintendo.

It should have been a true open world, with real-time battles. Basically Breath of the Wild, but you can deploy Pokemon instead of different weapons.

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Re:Nintendo’s Philosophy: Lateral Thinking with Withered Tec... by philistine on Monday April 06, 2020 @08:24AM (#22793072)
Do not conflate Pokémon with Nintendo. The situation is way more complex. Game Freak, the actual developers of Pokémon, are a laughably small team for what is the biggest franchise in the world, and they refuse to get bigger or change the formula. Pokémon is the epitome of Japanese conservatism.
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