Compared to the some of the big developers out there, Game Freak is relatively small. Companies like Ubisoft, Activision, and EA have massive amounts of staffers working on their projects. Meanwhile, the core team at Game Freak has only around 180-200 people working on Pokemon Sword/Shield, which may seem small in comparison.
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If it's live service it's a "no" from me. I'll take a Days Gone sequel though...
I’m not going to war with people who like GaaS. Lord knows everyone went apesh*t for Helldivers 2, but I will never buy a GaaS game and while PS5 is my system of choice I will not support Sony games that go in this direction.
I hate it, I don’t care how much Helldivers 2 was “GaaS done right,” and if the argument is these are the only way for the industry to make profit then all I have to say is something has gone terribly terribly wrong.
On the flip side I guess I’ll start saving more money if it’s mostly going to be GaaS games.
Bend has said they are making a multiplayer game for a while now. What that entails we have no idea yet
Online only title already been confirmed, sad to say but I'm not keeping in tune with this, idk why most devs hype up live service games after seeing the amount of failures past online titles caused for others smh DOA
Stop hosing Bend around and have them make a new Syphon Filter (or Days Gone 2) entry already.
That's great news. Hopefully the Coalition can smooth some of those edges from the last Avowed reveal.
Well I'm annoyed. Especially at all the ppl who said the graphics sucked. It's your fault they probably shifted the game to unreal so it could look more fancy for you. I was ok with it and hoping to actually play it sometime soon. Now it's like 99% chance it's delayed.
Edit: effing graphics whores
Apparently the latest build looks way better graphically. This rumor from Jez Cordin (who's credible) pretty much confirms it.
Interested in seeing more on Avowed in a few weeks.
I liked the games unique artstyle when It was revealed. I hope they're not making the migration based on criticism. It's only a rumor anyways
This was the only game I was jealous of, but It's a wait and see game now. Plus, I can wait until they release it on PSN.
You really comparing one developer to the biggest third party publishers of the industry? At 143 developers, Game Freak is a mid tier sized developer
They should have expanded over the years, the Pokemon games have always done well in sales thanks to the brand name alone so there’s no excuse to not expand your team so you can make each next project better than the last.
Recently it came out that 1000 people have worked on Sword and Shield, mostly from outsourcing it. Now for what the game looks like and the little jump it seems to have had for the next brand new generation of Pokemon with the first ever console game is ridiculous, they should have taken it more seriously.
I know it’s different for each studios and what specific game they make but CD Projekt Red has roughly 886 staff, NaughtyDog has about 336, The Collation is like 300ish, Platinum Games 224 etc. Point is look at what they accomplish and yet here’s GF who can’t even utilise 1000 properly
They have Nintendo’s backing so it’s not like they would be left in the shit.
Pokemon, pokemon = cash cow
If they want to start doing more than POKEMON then they're going to need to expand. Else they'll struggle juggling between it and their new IP if it takes off after release