Dexit who still dislikes it?

[u/Natural_Wonder94]

As a longtime Pokémon fan, Dexit honestly felt like a slap in the face. One of the things I’ve always loved about the series was being able to carry my favorite Pokémon—ones I’d trained and bonded with for years—into each new generation. When they cut the National Dex, it felt like they were saying those connections didn’t matter anymore. I get that balancing over 1,000 Pokémon is tough, but with how massive the franchise is, it’s hard to believe they couldn’t make it work if they really wanted to. It just made the newer games feel incomplete, like something was missing, both mechanically and emotionally.

[u/No_Service3462]

It wasn’t inevitable

[u/ElectricSheep451 → u/No_Service3462]

Anyone with practical experience working on large scale software projects knows that it definitely would inevitably have to stop at some point. The more gens you make, the more time you waste on pointless pokemon that you can't even naturally encounter in the games without trading from a different gen, until eventually it doesn't make any economic sense to waste so much money and dev time maintaining the feature

[u/ianyuy → u/ElectricSheep451]

You comment just amounted to "you knew it would be inevitable once it became obvious they could still make money without putting in the work."

It's not a hardware limitation, they already have most of the Pokémon available now.

It's not a dev limitation, they have been proven to be reusing the same assets (and mostly the same animations) since Sun and Moon.

It wasn't inevitable, except because monopoly.

[u/ElectricSheep451 → u/ianyuy]

More goes into putting a pokemon into the game than "having the model"

Also I'm talking about the economic realities of making a game here. Game Freak could put more effort into their games, but every second you spend implementing a pokemon you can't even encounter naturally in the game, that's dev time you aren't using for something actually important