Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield Gameplay - Nintendo Treehouse: Live | E3 2019

Now I understand why they went with Sword and Shield They use the sword to cut the pokedex in half Then they use the shield to block out criticism

The dislike bar got dynamaxed.

No mega evo + no z move + no national pokedex = NO PRE-ORDER.

Masuda: "The best Selection of pokemons" Appears friggin Charizard yeah about that...

2014 : delete battle frontier 2019 : delete NationDex 2024 : delete pokemon

Gamefreak: Not all the Pokemon are here Community: Not all the fans are here

I refuse to play a Pokémon game where I can’t bring my cherished Pokémon that I have taken with me all the way from the GBA games.

500+ Pokemons were cut out... RIP Bulbasaur and many other pokemon.

Remember how Gold and Silver almost had to cut Kanto because of hardware limitations, but then the brilliant Iwata MADE it work because he cared about the fans? Those were the days.

I have lived in Japan for a long time and it seems people here are upset about the pokedex cut too. I am not speaking for everyone in Japan, but a lot of Japanese people on the internet seem to be upset about Gamefreak removing Pokemon. It is not just westerners that are concerned. This is a huge deal for two reasons, the first reason is that in Japan people rarely vocal about their opinions publicly because they don't like to start conflict. If they are very passionate about something and tell people their opinion publicly, it must be very important. Pokemon is a very popular video game series in Japan and a lot of people care about it. We want Gamefreak and Nintendo to put as much effort into these games as they can to make it the best quality game it can be. They could have definitely added all of the Pokemon and had no real reason to cut them. The Switch can definitely handle 1000+ Pokemon models, it is much more powerful than the 3ds and that could handle 800+ Pokemon plus their walking/running animations. They already had every old Pokemon model from Sun and Moon to use and just had to update it graphic wise. Plus they already had the 151 Kanto models finished in Let's Go. They could have put Sword & Shield as a priority and had the best team working on the game but they didn't, instead they side lined Pokemon in favor of a new game and had their secondary team developing Pokemon. They didn't hire enough people to work on the game and treated it like it wasn't important. The second reason this is a problem, is that when they realized they weren't going to have enough time to update every Pokemon model and put it into the game, they chose not to hire more people and do it. Instead they came up with an unconvincing excuse all so that they wouldn't have to spend any extra time, money, or effort into developing the game. They figured they could get away with cutting content because they figured people would buy the game no matter what terrible decisions they make. They think saving money is more important than making a great game. I am not saying everything about these games is bad. I am not blaming the developers, they did the best they could being understaffed and rushed for time. I think Sword and Shield had the potential to be great games with some really good new features. Unfortunately due to bad choices and response to fans, that potential was damaged. But I am disappointed with the direction Gamefreak has been going with the Pokemon games recently and this terrible policy. If you don't care about anything Gamefreak does and want to buy Pokemon games anyway that is fine. I am just saying my concerns and other people's for the future of Pokemon. I also hope people don't threaten to harm Masuda Junichi or any other higher member Gamefreak and the Pokemon company. Corporate greed is one of the biggest issues people have with this whole thing. It is a major problem with a lot of big companies. Gamefreak is planning on cutting a ton of Pokemon that people love from their future games because they don't want to bother hiring more people or spending more time and money to make the games fun for everyone. It's about more than just the fact that they are not including all of the Pokemon. Gamefreak has been prioritising other games over Pokemon for a while now and have not been putting nearly enough effort into recent games. They have been making games with unfinished areas like the train station in X and Y or no post game. They have started handing out legendary and mythical Pokemon as gifts instead of introducing them through in-game events that allow us to catch them in a new area of the game and add to their lore. And sometimes they add extra things in a version two of the game but we shouldn't have to pay for a whole other game just so we can get a finished version. But it seems like for every step forward they take another two steps back. Some people are pretending not to notice these these things and are still looking through rose colored glasses. I understand that people want to see the best in all Pokemon games but in reality the games have some large flaws and arent perfect. The problem with that is that it allows Gamefreak to get way with almost anything, that is partially why there was a drop in quality. People criticize certain parts of a game because they want them to be fixed in the next game. The other reason for some parts of the games being unfinished is that they are very persistent with yearly releases. They don't listen to their fans for the most part and that has to change. Pokemon is an important franchise that deserves a super high quality game with a ton of time and effort like Breath of the Wild or Mario Odyssey. The semi-open world areas of Sword & Shield is a good idea and the Pokemon in the over-world is a great new feature. But at the same time they got rid if very popular and creative things like Mega Evolution in favor of one time gimmicks. And if you like those gimmicks that is fine, but it shows that they are not listening to what the majority of fans want. And now they are giving us an unfinished product that has even less than their 3ds games did. That is not acceptable and that is the biggest problem, Nintendo and Gamefreak as a company think it is okay to put less effort into Pokemon games because we will buy them any way. People want to let them know that we are tired of our favorite games being set to the side . We want them to prioritize Pokemon for once. Sword & Shield deserve to be the best quality Pokemon games they can be.

"A rushed game is forever bad, but a delayed game is eventually good." -Shigeru Miyamoto

Game Freak: Removes National Dex and Megas Pokemon Fans: "Dislike button, prepare to be obliterated!"

Pokemon fans: WOW! There's over 1000 Pokemon now!?! Game Freak: Well yes, but actually no.

All my hype for this game suddeny evaporated. Saying its a development issue is such a dumb excuse. "A delayed game is eventually good, But a rushed game is forever bad"- Shigeru Myamoto

Just give the series to Nintendo already. Game Freak clearly doesn't care about it anymore. If Nintendo can put the same effort into Pokemon as they did breath of the wild, Gen 9 would be a masterpiece.

Who is here after only 400 Pokemon being revealed for SW/SH?

How to derail the biggest hype train your series has ever had, 101

When People asked for Pokemon Snap This is not what they asked for.

Yeah I'm gonna wait for the "EVERYONE IS HERE" trailer

Still can't believe this'll be more expensive than the 3DS games and literally have less. A lot of people were going to buy the Switch just for these games but apparently they're trying to lower expectations to cut costs and it's sad.