I dont particularly care as I have a massive backlog as is but I'll say this, delaying this is the smartest play gamefreak couldve made.First, obviously they get more time to actually develop these games. As seen with ZA its no guarantee they'll actually be good but I find it unlikely TPC will let them have another launch as disastrous as SV. Second, theres more than enough time for people to adopt the switch 2. In the current economy the overwhelming majority of people have no interest in getting a console with such a limited library for an inflated price and pokemon alone isn't changing that
This is the result of said delay.
>>58982506Their usual release spot is taken up by GTA 6 and they are not going to compete for sales with it.My guess is Jan-Feb, when kids have got their Switch 2's for Xmas to maximize, sales, they don't need to wait for the holiday period for releases anymore, they know it'll sell no matter the time of year.
It makes sense from almost every metric; 2 extra years of development time, time for a growing Switch 2 user base...but I think they made a mistake revealing it. Or at least, a mistake revealing so much. I know people would've complained either way, but I don't think it's great optics to show the typical amount a new gen announcement trailer does but with a longer wait.
>>58982690>Their usual release spot is taken up by GTA 6 and they are not going to compete for sales with itYou're overestimating just how much GTA6 is going to sell and how many GTA players actually overlap with pokemon players. Its gonna be another cyberpunk 2099 situation where GTA6 won't run on anything but a PS5 pro or a 5090 for the next two years
>>58982506delay would imply that we had a release date before
>>58982506hope it's late 2027pokefags should play something else instead of consooming low quality yesrly slop
>>58982690>GTA 6 gets free publicity by living in everyone's headsKek
>>58982726Nah, showing this much was perfect. The hype train is screaming down the track right out of the gate. The quality and production value already has people absolutely gripped, so it's turned into another pseudo GTA6 situation.
>>58982506>Thoughts on the delay...But it wasn't delayed?
So, am I wrong to think they delayed it to chance everything the giant leak said?It was going to be a massive wokefest, now we even have the old character design back apparently,
>>58983178Killed it for me. Less would've been more here. It's a tease, and not in a "I can't wait" way, more like a "fucking seriously, 2027?" way. Had they shown less, I would've been more willing to accept the 2027 release.
>>58983134I couldn't give a shit about GTA
>>58983187You gotta be trolling.You can't be this fucking thick.
>>58982506>Thoughts on the delayits a good thing, if you don't think so, you may need another hobby
I wonder what Nintendo's holiday seller will be now?
>>58983322legends johto
>>58982767No one cares about gta
>>58983322Theyre probably gonna shadow drop a remake of one of the capcom Zelda games. I could also see them finally giving ocarina of time an actual remake but I imagine that would've been announced or at least leaked by now
What delay retard?
>>58982628Don't worry, in 4 more generations we'll have a game that looks like it belongs to the ps3 generation instead of early ps2.
>>58983322Air Riders being an actual game released in 2025 makes me think Smash will get a Switch 2 enhanced port to tide people over. I presume the Splatoon game will be out this year too, but honestly I can't make sense of Nintendo's current release strategy at all. Maybe there will be some other big third party games?
>>58982690Not sure Nintendo would want to have such a major tent pole release at literally the end of one of their fiscal quarters cause it'd make accounting, and the subsequent quarterly shareholder meeting dicey. Very late February is entirely possible though, and Game Freak may want to be cheeky at that point and just release it on Pokemon Day 2027.
>>58983187>>58983384Internal leaks show they were planning a Holiday 2026 release.
>>58983572Capcom does this regularly these days and it's working out for them. Wilds and re9 were both record breaking installments and that makes the retarded bean counters happy.
>>58983598Nintendo's investors are historically and publicly known to be fucking retarded as hell. Which is probably part of the reason Nintendo's taking this opportunity of having their stock devalued to buy back as much of their own shares as they can.
>>58983598Capcom's been aggressively carving out a niche of Jan/Feb releases to the point where they actually had a press release telling other game publishers to fuck off, this is their turf now. I assume Nintendo will drop these Sept~Nov 2027 to target the holiday window but god only knows.
>>58983700I would agree with you for everything but Pokemon. Nothing really comes close. Nintendo could very well pay them to not release anything next February.
>>58983409You have literally never seen a ps2 game jesus christ.
>>58982690>implying they won't delay GTA6 again
>>58982506Dude, the game is already developed, they're delaying it so they have more time to goon...
>>58982690Why would a pokemon even have to compete with that negro crime simulator?GTA's main audience is kids while pokemon is mainly played by manchildren
>>58983322splatoon raiders, fire emblem
>>58982506Yeah more time to develop a launch DLC
>>58982628worth it
>>58983322Xenoblade 2 DE
But if Winds and Waves only release in 2027 why announce them now instead of waiting for next year’s pokemon day? They already went radio silent on Z-A for a year after announcing it and the same’s gonna happen here…
>>58982506I'm glad. I already have two trips to Japan planned and was worried that Gen 10 would drop this year. It being 2027 just means I can wait until we have a release date and plan a trip accordingly.
>>58982506More time for a potential switch 2 oled to drop. Hopefully we see more by august atleast>>58984512It could be around may-june for summertime. If it was late 2027 i feel like we wouldn't have gotten any gameplay at all
Please Game Freak! I Want Gecqua to be Baramon, Browt and Pombon are Not, Gecqua's Final Evolution would be Massive Tailed Sword is Autotomy like Guts from Berserk not Waifumon!
>>58982690I dont really get it, the "people" that play GTA are not nintendies or pokefags regardlessBut yeah they did release PLA in Jan-Feb even though it's such a bizarre time.
>>58982628They fixed 1 thing and people already praise it. While even the people's model is the same as SV making it feel like SV DLC. I mean really? We just had Ts and shorts for school uniforms and the new Gen has Ts and shorts as the new clothes? With the same body models? Also have you seen that pic with the female prot close up to the water standing on the rock? The water seems amazing. The rock though? Oof. Gen9 looked goofy but it was all consistently goofy. This now sticks out like a sore thumb. I have zero trust that they will fix anything. They are for profit and the switch 2 is still ps3 era strong.
>>58983616It's the safe thing to do in the current circumstances. Dollar keeps dropping.
>>58982506My theory is that the delay was to coincide with a cheaper switch 2 lite
>>58984609>>58985320I'm hoping for a bundle with updated console as well havent had any reason to get a switch 2 so far
>>58985245>the new Gen has Ts and shorts as the new clothesIt's fine because the new protagonists actually look like Pokemon protagonists. Gen 9 had the ugliest designs.
>>58982506>delayWhat delay? They never told us that the game would release in 2026.
>>58985320If there's a bundle or a special Pokémon edition switch 2/lite, I'll buy that as my second switch 2 for dex completion.
>>58983322It's 3D Mario, insiders have already said so.
>>58982506The delay has sadly nothing to do with extra development time, and much less with having the switch 2 user base get bigger, this is the type of game that gives momentum to consoles sales.Just wait until the next nintendo direct and you people will undertand what actually happen.
>>58983322It's OOT re-remake since it was already leaked
>>58985320Not in this hardware economy.
>>58982506>pokemon alone isn't changing thatIt is, actually. You overestimate consumers.
>>58982506>delayThis isn't a delay, this is taking the time a game like that needs . Just look at SV. They clearly rushed the fuck out of that game and it's dogshit. I never want to see them make garbage like that ever again.
>>58982506I wish they settled on a style that guaranteed more frequent releases. If they go the GTA route we should start looking into a different franchise
>>58986331Can we stop with this shitty meme?Making a good game doesn't take "time" for a multibillions company, it takes budget.Hire more people to do more work in the same timespan.And anyway the game is already finished by now.The far away release date is purely marketing and not releted to developement.
I don't really care for the delay since anyway a switch 2 emulator likely won't be out until 2027.And obviously I'm not buying any basedtendo console just to play pokemon
>>58982506>Thoughts on the delayIt was damn worth it
>>58983384You are stupid as fuck.
>>58986382Time IS budget you fucking moron. >hurr just hire more people so u can b finished fasterer xdNot how it fucking works you obvious child. More people means more management, more management means more time. You can't just hire more people and "let them work" and "be done faster". It's like saying you can make a better clockwork by simply adding more gears.Each employee needs to understand the vision and the goals, they need to be in sync with the whole other team, and their work needs to go through quality control constantly. The bigger the team, the more time is wasted on these things.There is such a thing as a sweet spot regarding team size. A smaller team that knows exactly what they are making is better than a huge team that consists of hundreds of people with different visions and ideas of what they are making.>durr the game is finished they just delay it as a joke xdShut the fuck up, retard. And get a job while you're at it cause you've clearly never had one.
>>58982941we had tho???
>>58982506it's not a "delay"they were probably planning for a 2027 release no matter whatthey just decided to go ahead and announce the next gen for the 30th anniversary regardless because they're hoping you'll hype anyway
>>58983541>Maybe there will be some other big third party games?Nobody buys a Nintendo console especially within its 1st year for the 3rd party titles
>>58983598Capcoms audience aren't casuals who only buy games during the holidays. Pokemon's audience is more comparable to the audience for COD or 2k which maintain pretty rigid release schedules for their major releases
>>58987224Yeah... no you sre wrong.
>>58986939Sit your ass down and wait.
>>58983260All they showed was some basic showcases of the improved graphics, the starters, and a new rendition of the title theme. That’s pretty much the minimum amount they could show for a trailer like this.Also I hope it releases late 2027, there’s actually the potential for something really good here
>>58983178 Hype dies down if you don't constantly feed it
>>58982506My thoughts on the game, not on the delay are related to the gimmick. First, it may be related to dreams, 2nd, to fairytales or myths...
>>58987359I'll do just that while you keep seething about your fanfics about how gamedev works.
>>58986939>Time IS budget you fucking moronDamn, Anon finally learned how the real world works.
>>58987387A year is the perfect amount of time to hype up a new game. With each month, they can drop info on gyms, pokemon, features, etc. And this is Pokemon, they can also make anime shorts to keep people talking about it.
>>58982506i'd be shocked if it came out any later than EARLY Spring
>>58987534I'm pretty sure you must an experience game developer from a multimedia franchise that has more just video games to release every time they a new generational cicle.
I can't believe Gen 9 is going to be the longest gen.I hope they don't start taking longer and longer to make these games
>>58982690GTA6 and Pokemon have virtually no consumer overlap with each other. Anyone who wants Pokemon does not care for GTA, and anyone who wants GTA does not care for Pokemon.Also, trying to work around GTA6's projected release is a fool's errand, because GTA6 is going to keep delaying itself until Trump stops being president (many more years to come before that happens) as Rockstar very obviously wants GTA6's story and characters to be a slam dunk on the man, but they also don't want to incur his manchild wrath while he has the power to destroy the entire western AAA vidya industry.
>>58982628>This is the result of said delay.The delay to 2027? So the jump in graphical fidelity they're showing NOW is a result of extra dev time that hasn't happened yet and not because it's on a new console that's twice as powerful? You are a fucking retard.
>>58987829Five years between generations might be the sweet spot for GF to have enough development time to avoid another SV situation and also the absolute maximum timeline that ensures all kids have a new generation release while they're in grade school.GF was clearly unable to keep up with the three-year timeline with SwSh DLC and Legends Arceus.
>>58988846Then just hire more people instead of wasting our precious lifespan.It's a fucking multibillion company, not an indie studio.Increase budget, hire more people and do in three years what you'd do in five with your current small staff.
>>58989772Hiring more people is not gonna make things faster.
>>58989772There’s a lot more to “just hire more people” that makes it a far more complicated thing. Not saying they shouldn’t, but it’s not that simple
>>58989801Yes it would.200 people can create a map faster than 10.200 people can shit out 3d models faster than 5.....etc
>>58986340They should just do what cod does unironically and have multiple large studios rotating different games instead of gf handling the entire load
>>58987224It was original supposed to come out in late 2025 according to the teraleak lmfao
>>58989815No anon, that's not how it works. Making a game (or any other media) is not conveyor belt production. You need to make sure everyone makes the right things in the right quality and in the right timeframe. You can't just let people make things, they need tight management to deliver a finished, coherent product.
>>58989852GF would never give pokemon to any other studio.But they could start acting like the multi-trillion company they are and create a bunch of rotating studio-sized teams within GF to work on different games at once, instead of larping as a small indie company...
>>58989871Genius Sonority could've been team 2 but gf got jelly belly and sabotaged them (I have no idea what actually happened but how did they shrink so much)
>>58989863No, don't act like a fucking pokemon game is more complicated than it is.The longest part is created the open world map and the models, and it can easily be sped up by hiring more people.And btw the game's developement is very likely already finished by now.The remote release date is purely a marketing thing.
>>58982506It's an all or nothing trait. If it's not something truly great, then people will ask what that extra year was for. You can't just keep giving it ANOTHER year, pokemon only gets the pass because it's yearly slop, like fifa/cod/wwe If you don't get your yearly content people will get mad.
GF has explicitely stated they prioritize their "comfy" small-scale work environment over product quality.That's why they wont hire more people.
>>58989892I think the release date is more of an extra polishing thing, unless it's specifically coming out on pokemon dayThey don't want another sv tier reputation disaster
>>58982726>but I think they made a mistake revealing it.nah, can you IMAGINE the amount of doomposting there would be if they just ended with nothingand there's also the fact there's leaks to contend with, might as well get out ahead of even more getting out from people with access to it and sullying impressions on it
>>58983322splatoon's a big one, though it's almost always a summer releasea wild card I haven't seen brought up is a 3D kirby, it'll have been 5 years since forgotten land and I doubt the switch 2 edition took up much time, and air riders wasn't developed by HALcould be supplemented by a mario kart expansion which is expected, and there's also fire emblem, I think they'll have a pretty robust line upor there's just the boring answer of 3D mario lol
>>58989908Which leads to a better coherent experience, despite not needing to piss away dve budget on "gwaffix", like simpletons think is all there is to vidya can't blame 'em for thinking that. State of the western industry sure as fuck didn't tell them different.
