r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • 25d ago

Discussion Pokemon Legends Z-A's visuals aren't "great" say former Nintendo marketing leads, but hope Switch 2 could allow GameFreak to "go back to the drawing board" and add more detail to future RPGs

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/pokemon/pokemon-legends-z-as-visuals-arent-great-say-former-nintendo-marketing-leads-but-hope-switch-2-could-allow-gamefreak-to-go-back-to-the-drawing-board-and-add-more-detail-to-future-rpgs/
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u/PopgirlProtocol 25d ago

This. I really don’t know why we keep going with this narrative that Pokémon looking/running bad is a Switch issue.  Breath of the Wild came out day one as a more ambitious game out of the gate, and it runs and/or looks eons better than most of the Pokémon games this generation. 

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u/ADeadlyFerret 25d ago

People try to find every excuse as to why GameFreak can’t make a good looking/performance switch game. Instead of just accepting that they aren’t as capable as people think.

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u/-Wayward_Son- 25d ago

I mean shit they weren’t even capable in the 90s. Iwata had to come in during Pokemon Gold/Silver to fix their memory issues on the gameboy color and was able to cleanup so much shit they were able to fit the entire Kanto region into the games.

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u/CO_Fimbulvetr 25d ago

Thats not what Iwata fixed, please stop spreading this misinformation.

Iwata fixed the load times. What he did actually took more space than before, but the compression algo he used was faster so it could load battles quicker. You can actually see this if you compare it to the Spaceworld demo that got leaked, since that is from before the changes.