Johtoo
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The problem is that Pokemon Sales are not that impressive by Switch standards. Zelda has outsold SWSH, Animal Crossing outsold SWSH by 2/1. It's almost at 40 million sales. If Sword and Shield were half as good as those games, it would have sold a lot more. Gamefreak alienated a lot of potential gamers and sale figures of other Nintendo games prove that. You're right though, legends was a surprise. I'm interested to see where it goes.While I agree on the fact that Pokemon games in 2021 should look the way that trailer looks and not like a remastered version of a 15 years old game, and while I agree that Masuda has some responsability, I think it's important to add that Masuda is now primarly a producer and that (like it or not) since he has started producing, the games have sold more than ever.
I know that the artistic direction the games have taken may not be the best (let's say it's far away from the best) but at the same time, I think there's a lot of fear at GF: people are never happy with whatever they make and at the same time they are asked to change something that keeps selling 22 milions of copies.
Let's be honest, Pokemon Legends is not something that GF needed to produce, but they are doing it anyway. And I think that Masuda, as producer of GF, had a role in this.