The Pokémon Company Puts NatDex Controversy Behind Them

SwitchedOn Gamer writes: Pokémon Sword and Shield will feature Galarian forms, two new rivals and the villainous Team Yell, but the NatDex controversy still lingers.

[-Foxtrot]

Yeah I don't think most fans care about how many silly galarian forms, battle gimmicks and the like they do, we won't move on because it's not just the NatDex, it's what the whole situation represents. Gamefreak being lazy, being behind the times and not evolving as much as they could have in 20 years now. People were going to get sick of their shit eventually and each new game will bring it worse if they continue on like this.

[TheUndertaker85]

It's locked to Switch only so guaranteed to do worse sales wise as it is. It's not just Gamefreak that's the issue here.

Nintendo really needs to lose rights to Pokemon. The series has been overly lazy and hasn't really evolved in a long time. I mean hell. Pokemon Go at this point seems to better stick to the idea that you want to "Catch 'Em All" and to the true spirit of Pokemon versus anything since GBC.

[Sono421]

Wait what? Did I miss something? How is this Nintendo's fault? It is very clearly Gamefreak who is the problem here, outright lying about why they cut the national dex, saying it's for better balancing, and higher quality animations, despite the fact they ALERADY have balancing mechanics and 95% of the animations are reused 3DS animations. Then outright lying again when they said they remade all models from scratch, even thought they just made future proof models to avoid this EXACT problem, not to mention they used those future proof models in the let's go games, so why wouldn't they be here? Answer: They are.. they're just lying, data mining the game when it comes out will destroy their reputation. Gamefreak putting most of their resources into Town instead of Pokemon's first mainline console entry. What does that have to do with Nintendo? They simply publish the games.. none of these issues have anything to do with publishing.

Pokemon Colosseum and XD were EXCELLENT console editions to pokemon, with great graphics and animations, as well as a great unique story, and with an amazing soundtrack to boot, Nintendo published those games as well, only difference being that Genius Sonority made those games instead of Gamefreak.

I don't know what in the world made you think this is Nintendo's fault, but this has gamefreak written all over it.

Sadly i'm a sucker for pokemon, so i'm still going to get it, but I refuse to give gamefreak my money for the mere fact that they have lied repeatedly and shown a jarring lack of incompetence. So I will be buying the game used, and PLEASE I urge the rest of you to do the same, they don't deserve the crazy amount of sales this is going to have.

So in closing, BUY THIS GAME USED, PLEASE. I don't want Gamefreak taking pokemon in this direction of lies and laziness anymore, it's time for someone new, or at the very least, they need to step their game up, just a shame that we're going to have to wait another 3 years before we FINALLY get a QUALITY pokemon main title on a home console.Instead of this lazy higher resolution 3DS game.

[ifinitygamer]

Not sure if this is properly putting it behind them, but it’s at least showing some gen 1 Pokémon with new forms which is nice

[Sono421]

I would say it's them trying to distract us from it. The game still doesn't release until September, I feel like they've shown off everything new now and I doubt that was the plan. They were probably going to sparse these out more up until release, but clearly they are trying to make us forget, even though I know for a fact I won't. I'm buying this game used, period. They won't get a dime from me.