 It seems The Pokémon Company won't slow down its game releases in the short term, but it is aware that things may need to change. For as popular and financially profitable as the Pokémon games continue to be, the last several years have seen them become inundated with cyclical complaints of technical issues, performance problems, and underwhelming visuals. All of these are attributed to The Pokémon Company's very strict release schedule. New mainline games come out annually and are typically handled by Game Freak, which to this day still employs less than 200 people. As such, some have called for each game to receive longer development cycles and while it doesn't sound like The Pokémon Company will change its strategy any time soon, it at least seems aware that it needs some revision. In the wake of this year's Pokémon World Championships event, Takato Utsunomiya, chief operating officer at The Pokémon Company, was asked if the company is indeed beholden to a specific release schedule for the Pokémon games. Unsurprisingly, Utsunomiya didn't directly address the technical issues that plagued Pokémon Scarlet & Violet, or fan complaints regarding the visuals. However, while he says that the company will continue to release products at a 'fairly fixed kind of a cadence,' he acknowledges that development environments are changing. Pokémon Legends: Arceus – there was only a 10 month gap between Game Freak putting out Pokémon Legends: Arceus and Pokémon Scarlet & Violet (Picture: Nintendo) 'I think in general, if you look at the past, the path we've taken up until now has been this constant release, always regularly releasing products on a fairly fixed kind of a cadence. Always having these products able to be introduced and new experiences for our customers, and that's how we've operated up until now,' Utsunomiya tells ComicBook via a translator. 'I think we're still op){kind=link}
It seems The Pokemon Company won’t slow down its game releases in the short term, but it is aware that things may need to change.
For as popular and financially profitable as the Pokemon games continue to be, the last several years have seen them become inundated with cyclical complaints of technical issues, performance problems, and underwhelming visuals.
All of these are attributed to The Pokemon Company’s very strict release schedule. New mainline games come out annually and are typically handled by Game Freak, which to this day still employs less than 200 people.
As such, some have called for each game to receive longer development cycles and while it doesn’t sound like The Pokemon Company will change its strategy any time soon, it at least seems aware that it needs some revision.
In the wake of this year’s Pokemon World Championships event, Takato Utsunomiya, chief operating officer at The Pokemon Company, was asked if the company is indeed beholden to a specific release schedule for the Pokemon games.