Given the speedy tempo at which Pokémon video games have been launched in recent times (Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, Legends Arceus, and Scarlet and Violet all launched inside a 12-month window), there are of course considerations arising throughout the fan neighborhood as as to whether this could be affecting the general high quality of the mainline video games.
After all, Scarlet and Violet specifically launched with a heap of technical points; a lot of that are nonetheless current to this very day, regardless of a public acknowledgement and apology from Nintendo itself. Well, because of a query put ahead by comicbook.com on the Pokémon World Championships in Yokohama, Japan, The Pokémon Company’s COO Takato Utsunomiya has confirmed that the corporate is having “extra conversations” round the way it can keep its present launch cadence while making certain product high quality is excessive.
Here’s precisely what Utsunomiya needed to say:
“I feel on the whole, for those who have a look at the previous, the trail we have taken up till now has been this fixed launch, all the time usually releasing merchandise on a reasonably fastened form of a cadence, you may say. Always having these merchandise capable of be launched and new experiences for our prospects, and that is how we have operated up till now.
“I feel we’re nonetheless working in that method, however there’s increasingly more conversations, as the event environments change, about how we will proceed to do that, whereas ensuring that we’re making certain actually high quality merchandise are additionally being launched.”
It falls wanting a direct acknowledgement of the problems found in Scarlet and Violet, but it surely does sound like The Pokémon Company is a minimum of conscious of the challenges that include sustaining such a prolific launch schedule. Whether it will end in extra time being spent on the event of mainline titles does, a minimum of for now, stay to be seen.
As for Scarlet and Violet, two main DLC expansions shall be launching later this 12 months, with The Teal Mask launching on September thirteenth, 2023, and The Indigo Disk following in Winter 2023.
