10 Controversies That Have ALREADY Hurt Pokemon Sword & Shield
6. Made By The B Team
Pokémon is one of the biggest franchises in gaming, and Sword and Shield is lined up to be one of its biggest releases ever. Coming in off the hype of Pokémon Go, Let’s Go and Detective Pikachu, the first true main series arrival on the Switch should be massive news.
However, Game Freak have hinted time and time again that it’s basically been made by their B team.
As justification for the substandard graphics and some other controversies still to come, Game Freak - an already small company relative to Pokémon - have pointed to the fact that their development team has been massively stretched while working on Sword and Shield, with many of their big guns working on new IP Town instead.
There’s a stark difference hearing them talk about the two games; Town, which probably won’t even sell a tenth of what Pokémon will, seems like a passion product that the company is truly proud of.
After so long making Pokémon in the same mould (more on that later), it’s clearly growing stale. Disney famously had their B team make The Lion King while the A team took Pocahontas, but it remains to be seen if lightning will strike the same way here.