What? No game has included every Pokemon as catchable. The focus is always on the new Pokemon of that generation, everything else you have to transfer over via PokeBank.
The fan base wants gen8 ASAP, they don't want to wait half a decade for it no matter what the excuse.
They'll keep using the HD engine from Sword and Shield. It'll scale far better with improved hardware than the 3DS engine would have.
For some, absolutely. Those people will get their wish, but they would've had to wait for that wish to come true either way. Looking at the bigger picture, Let's Go not only generated a lot of hype for gen8, it also brought a whole lot of new players into the fold. To take advantage of that they need to release S&S sooner rather than later.
Precisely. They can also add new in-game events to correspond with models from previous generations being added.
I'm almost certain that most people would rather have the game delayed than have the rest of the Pokedex added as an update or, dare I say it, paid DLC.
Neither of us can speak for the majority of Pokemon fans, but I don't think the hardcore players are going anywhere. It's the current hype level and the chance to hook new players that are on more of a time limit.
Nobody has said they won't be adding it later. If people are willing to wait through delays, then waiting until all the models are added to buy S&S shouldn't be a problem for them. A lot of us would prefer to have gen8 content to enjoy while we wait, however.
Okay, but I'll say it again: There is no reason for not adding it to the game in the first place. Models and animations have been reused since XY, with only minor changes being made to them as the series has progressed. Performance wouldn't be an issue either, since it's already known that the Switch can handle large open-worlds like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and a complete National Dex can't possibly be more taxing on resources than Skyrim, right?
Can't wait until they flip the script again and start blaming the players for it.
The reason is time, as we've been discussing.
Up until now the changes have been minor. It's plainly obvious how much higher res and how much more detailed the models in S&S are compared to models from the 3DS engine (Let's Go). If I had to guess, gen8 is running on a modified UE4.
Correct, this has nothing to do with performance. It's a matter of re-creating models and animations from scratch.
There's no version of Animal Crossing that has 1000+ character models, so that's not a good comparison. I've also not mentioned DLC, and I seriously doubt that's how Pokemon models will be added to gen8.
I really don't know about this. From the footage I've seen, it looks like the Pokemon models and animations are still the same ones that have been recycled since gen 6. Going back to gen 6 for a moment, the models had pretty high polygon counts for the 3DS. The 3DS could barely maintain 30FPS rendering two of them at once, and double battles were just slideshows. But they did this so that the models would be future-proof, because obviously creating 800+ models from scratch every game would be very time consuming. So they've been doing just that. The same models have been used in the gen 6 games, the gen 7 games, Go and Let's Go, and now they're using them again for Sword and Shield. Yeah, they look better in Sword and Shield because of the fancy new graphics engine, but the polygons are still the same. And the dynamaxed Pokemon are using the same models too, just blown up in size. Sun and Moon had models and animations for all Pokemon, including animations for all of them in Refresh! If they really were redoing all the models for these games, I would still be upset, but I would understand. It just doesn't seem like that's the case though.
3DS is 240p, I wouldn't exactly call that high polygon counts.
Gen8 also appears to be running at 30 FPS, but Let's Go is 60 FPS. That makes it pretty clear which models are more taxing on Switch.
A new engine means new models, they aren't going to import 1:1 without looking out of place.
Resolution has nothing to do with polygon count though?
Pretty sure Let's Go was only 30FPS too, don't quote me on that though. I haven't touched the game in a while.
This isn't true. People dump models from games and use them for other purposes all the time, even importing them into other games! They probably updated the textures since the resolution of the system is higher, but the triangles that make up the shape of the model are still exactly the same.
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