>random college dropout turned music composer and game director>has worked with Nintendo and GameFreak since 1992, has dirt on every single suit in that office >kept in position despite repeated disappointment with the delayed release of Pokémon Gold / Silver, which single-handedly killed Pokémania>disappeared from office with a wallet full of money in the days prior to Ruby & Saphire released, was either in drug rehab or planning to flee the country R/S failed>maintained a firm dictatorship of GameFreak under his boot for more than ten years>become the single most important mind behind a 70 billion dollars IP>had a shouting match with loser Sugimori after the release of X/Y, and the altercation would have>get backstabbed by every single dev in the studio to get him to leave>still direct BDSP as a last fuck you>the arrangement is that Ohmori, who was borderline his personal slave for a decade due to his probation arrangement working for Gamefreak, succeeded Masuda so that his legacy can never falter>fired "upwards", taking a position in TPC where he is paid double to do fuck all>for 30 years, there had not been a single leak from Gamefreak>the first leak happens two weeks after he leavesMasuda must return. Nobody likes to hear this, but he is Pokémon. He could slap a logo on a turd, call it Pokémon Shit & Soil, and you'd buy it anyway. He was the iron man, he kept this franchise in line. No one would have dared to steal ideas from Nintendo or leak anything.At this point we are 100% sure that he knows so much shit that happened backstage that they couldn't fire him without half Nintendo office serving jail time.
He rewrote the canon of the series and basically completely killed the vibe Tajiri wanted
>Nobody likes to hear this, but he is Pokémon. He could slap a logo on a turd, call it Pokémon Shit & Soil, and you'd buy it anyway. He was the iron man, he kept this franchise in line.Cute Anon but the franchise unironically sells better with him gone. When he wasn't in charge, the numbers unironically did better. He's the reason the franchise became a joke and the more they took the franchise away from him, the more it flourished and succeeded. The numbers don't lie. Anyone who wants to argue whether GSC, RS, BW, XY did well? Doesn't matter. The moment he was no longer Pokemon, the numbers start rivaling RGBY againIt'll do infinitely better now that he's gone and crying with his shitty Gameboy MP3 chips
>>59101922You have to remember that he helmed R/S and B/W, both games that got eviscerated by the fans [and I don't want to hear the "everyone loved Hoenn!" revisionist history, Gen III was hailed as the death of Pokemon for an age] while D/P and X/Y got praised despite shipping out broken both times. Masuda's just fucking tired. He's tired of putting his heart into it only to get told "that's not Pokemon."
>>59101922because masuda was one of the only ones who cared about Pokemon, nearly everyone was was phoning it in or self-sabotaging, They've been bitter ever since Masuda had to take over during gen 2 because Tajiri abandoned them for being incompetent faggots.
>>59101922interesting perspective.I had never considered internal politics of Gamefreak. What I wanna know is; where the fuck is Tajiri? It disturbs me that he is in hiding.
>>59101968also cute anon and not op but its honestly sheer coincidence and "the switch effect" where any franchise can release a turd on the switch and itll sell like 3 times what it sold on any previous nintendo console automatically, internal decisions played no part in this, its just what happens when you release a game on the switch
>>59103029>Sheer coincidence>Switch effectThat genuinely does not explain why SV, a broken piece of shit, sold more than any Masuda game and is the first game to truly rival RGBY and actually outsell that game in Japan. On any normal circumstances, a game like SV should not have even come close to those numbers, regardless of being on Switch or not. Keep in mind, Masuda era had games that released on the same system always perform worse (GSC, BW and SM didn't outsell their predecessors) yet SV did outsell SwShIt's because Masuda was holding the franchise back
>>59101922I am loyal to King Masuda
>>59101968Correct by inflation.>>59102249Tajiri doesn't want to have anything to do with Pokémon anymore, and that has been his position since around the year 2000. Something happened to make him decide that, we are not sure what.GameFreak has a lot of dirty laundry, the more you look it up. The leaks are revealing it little by little. Masuda's legacy will be a questionable one.
>>59103851Masuda was not holding this franchise back, Masuda is the franchise.BDSP and Let's Go sold like hotcakes. He personally directed BDSP while surviving on a death beef with Sugimori and the entire higher up chain who wanted to coup him. He directed the game like a big and clear 'Fuck you' to everyone, then he got demoted upwards, into some legal position in TPC where he now sues Palworld and launders money with a 'theme park'. He is a 'creative director' at TPC now.GameFreak wants you to believe that Masuda was the problem, while proving time and time again that he wasn't.It was just a studio that closed itself off and refused to advance, and became Masuda's personal kingdom.
Tajiri was such a bad director, he nearly bankrupted the company and got kicked from directing gen 2 because he was too inefficient. It's crazy that Masuda, a musician, who also wrote some code on the side, did a better job. This guy is not only a true artist unlike the other hacks at Game Freak but the multi talent that carries the soul of the franchise. At his worst, gen 6, when Game Freak sabotaged him to get him out, he still outdid Ohmori. The fans most beloved games, Emerald and HG/SS, are all thanks to Masuda.
>>59103851>sold How does that relate to anyone other than isrealis with stock in Pokémon?
>>59105361In tajiri’s defence everyone’s else at game feak aside from Masuda, didn’t even want to do Pokémon, they were just phoning it in out is spite. Imagine finally getting a chance to get turn your long life dream of creating a monster collecting game but the people you get stuck with were all lazy pedophiles who don’t want to work. No wonder Tajiri fucked off. I hate game freak and I’ve never met anyone of those cunts, imagine having to work with them.
>>59101922>kept in position despite repeated disappointment with the delayed release of Pokémon Gold / Silver, which single-handedly killed PokémaniaYou're retarded
>everyone at Game Freak is a spiteful cunt that hates Pokemon!!>Masuda was a drug addict and ruled by fear!!>Masuda got kicked out after a power struggle!!>I personally know these people and their working dynamics because of a /vp/ shipost I read!!How stupid are the people on this board? Just spouting wild fanfictions as facts, as it there is literally any source for any of it?
>>59103851the market for pokemon is massively larger now because of increased living standards in SEA/latin america
>>59103851>SV sold more therefore its a better game>Look on Twitch>No one except competitivefags play the recent games>Everyone plays gens 1-4 or PLA instead
>>59103851it actually does, explain why sv, a broken piece of shit, sold more than any masuda game. its because it released on the switch. it doesnt matter if its pokemon and mario or like famicom detective club or warioware, no matter what it is, it will break sales records or come very close on switch. you can very easily look at the numbers, but feel free to meander around in your fanfiction world that im barely even arguing against
>>59105432The Tera leak2 reveals all that to be true, normroids were too busy focusing on the intern’s smut from the first Tera leak to notice it
>>59105396Supposedly, Iwata once called Ishihara the laziest motherfucker he had ever met in his life.>>59105432Leaks proved Gamefreak is borderline unhinged and a real life Heart of Darkness, and Masuda had to be part of an altercation with Sugimori and fired upwards so they could get rid of the guy, and even then Masuda left BDSP and Ohmori (his patsy) as a last fuck you to everyone.
>>59105396Gamefreak is just like any lazy studio that does not deal in the real world. They get insanely incompetent. In the Teraleak, Masuda was known for playing favorites, being arbitrary, not caring for quality
>>59105396>No wonder Tajiri fucked off. People say that, but he seems to be still working at game freak as the CEO (probably doing fuck all if we're honest). The guy's just very introverted.
>>59101922He directed legpiss. He's 100% prodexit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY6SI9nc51c
>>59104532Taijiri was a hack who got in over his head and needed Masuda and Iwata to clean up after him
>>59103851SV are fun games.
>He could slap a logo on a turd, call it Pokémon Shit & Soil, and you'd buy it anyway And that's exactly why he needs to go and stay gone, unless you'd profile me with evidence that he was the only guy at the office when this franchise was still internally named "Capsule Monsters" and convinced Tajiri & co. away from their retardedly jewish initial idea to essentialy release about 100 slightly different versions of the exact same game.
>>59102108Tajiri *was* one of said incompetent faggots, arguably the worst of them all. It already took half a decade for him to make Red/Greeb, which was buggier and more primitive than fucking DQ1, and then somehow managed to get the glorified expansion pack of a "sequel" stuck in development hell with no end in sight until he finally had his autistic breakdown and quit. He was basically the original YandereDev who got lucky.
>>59103851>That genuinely does not explain why SV, a broken piece of shit, sold more than any Masuda gameBOTW and TOTK are down there with Zelda 2 as the worst Zelda games ever made (unless you count the CD-i games) and yet they sold more than any other game in the franchise with every normalfag and urinalist singing their praises since they were Switch games. New Horizons was way worse than New Leaf and it was the same story there. The Switch era in general has been Nintendo at their laziest, greediest and most soulless while simultaneously printing more money than ever. Switchflation is a very real phenomenon.
>Thread spirals into defending Masuda>"B-buh nobody remembers the newer games!"Bitch you're all fucking 20s-30s and you don't even play the newer games. You're all gonna get fucking compressed by the zoomer/alpha gens that watch let's players play this shit on YouTube and your shit ass Masuda era games are gonna be dumped in the trash because he could never move beyond the original 151 in a way that made the series actually grow. You all played stagnant, remixed romhack ass games for your entire childhoods and want to believe "Masuda was Pokemon"In 10 years time everything from before SM is going to be irrelevant as shit unless your region starts with a K and ends with an O
>>59107549Not all those who roam are lost, anon.Masuda will return. The crownless shall again be king.
>>59107549Masuda kept the series afloat. Ohmori...Is trying his best.
