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Nintendo is reportedly considering outsourcing IP to more external studios | VGC
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Typically quality goes down as more third party studios get involved. If they can keep their quality up somehow, this will be a good thing. But I don't want annual shovelware Zelda games like COD or how Assassin's Creed was in the 2010s.
Pokemon has been close to shovelware for a few generations now, though legends Arceus is a shining counterexample that I hope we get more of. It seems like gamefreak had time to make it after handing off the normal remakes of the Sinnoh region to another developer, so if that’s the direction they’re looking in I’m optimistic.
Legends arceus is a shining counterexample? We must've been playing a different game
Arceus explores beyond the sad, rigid format of the main franchise. It forced them to re-evaluate choices made in Scarlet and Violet.
Really that's what Nintendo proper (not the Pokemon Company) understands. Goods work needs time in the oven.
Its why even their other studios do well.
Nintendo has been using third party devs since at least the SNES.
Agreed, and yet GameFreaks quality would skyrocket if they outsourced their development (or got forced by Nintendo to do so). Depends on how the quality is in the first place I guess xD
Not sure what leverage Nintendo would have. Nintendo doesn't own Pokemon. The Pokemon Company does.
Yeah I know, my intention was to draw a comparison. Nintendo has a generally high quality which probably would go down if they outsourced their development. Other companies, like GameFreak, suck so bad they would most likely benefit.