According to Takato Utsunomiya, the chief working officer of The Pokemon Company, conversations are being had about the right way to sustain the sequence’ common releases of video games whereas additionally sustaining high quality.
While Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet have been properly obtained from a gameplay standpoint, issues got here to a head final 12 months when some followers expressed disappointment from a technical stage. Performance and glitches have been an issue particularly. Months later, issues nonetheless aren’t at the place some gamers had wished.
Some consider that a part of the issue affecting Pokemon video games come right down to the discharge schedule. Game Freak typically places out not less than one sport a 12 months – 2023 is an exception, although Scarlet and Violet are getting two rounds of notable DLC.
Utsunomiya had this to say in a gaggle interview on the Pokemon World Championships:
“I believe basically, should you have a look at the previous, the trail we’ve taken up till now has been this fixed launch, at all times usually releasing merchandise on a reasonably fastened type of a cadence, you would possibly say. Always having these merchandise capable of be launched and new experiences for our clients, and that’s how we’ve operated up till now. I believe we’re nonetheless working in that means, however there’s increasingly more conversations, as the event environments change, about how we are able to proceed to do that, whereas ensuring that we’re guaranteeing actually high quality merchandise are additionally being launched.”
It’s value noting that over the previous 27 years, solely seven video games have passed by with out a new foremost sequence Pokemon sport. 2022 really noticed two main releases with Pokemon Legends: Arceus with Scarlet and Violet following that vacation.
