I did give feedback in general terms to Mr. Masuda: So at Game Freak, we get opportunities to give feedback to the direction that Nintendo is going with their hardware, so I think it’s less of being pulled in a direction and more kind of coming up with a direction together.ĭo you remember any specific feedback that either of you gave on this hardware? In some ways, it feels like Switch is pulling you onto consoles instead of you maybe wanting to go in that direction. Junichi Masuda: But of course, if the Switch had come out as a traditional console and then at the same time they had released a separate portable device, I think it would probably be safe to say we would have developed on the portable device. So whatever they put out, they usually take a pretty unique approach with things and we try to kind of match that uniqueness with the games. Ohmori: It’s kind of hard to speculate where we would have gone if that were the direction, but I do think it’s fair to say that the Pokémon main series RPGs that we develop have a very strong connection with Nintendo hardware. Do you think you would have gone this direction eventually anyway? Say Switch was a traditional console that didn’t have a portable component. Was this inevitable? Say hypothetically Switch never happened. A lot of people speculated for years wondering when it would happen, and it never did until Switch seems like it almost forced it to happen. Obviously, historically you guys have resisted targeting consoles. So it’s kind of a special positioning compared to a traditional console. So you could take it to a friend’s house and, you know, play it together in-person like a traditional Pokémon game. But as you know, the Switch is not really a traditional console so you can take it with you and also, if you choose, play it as a portable device. We definitely position it that way and this, from our perspective as well, was the first main series Pokémon RPG to be developed on a console. Shigeru Ohmori: So of course, at Game Freak we acknowledge the Nintendo Switch as a console.
Do you think of it that way or is that just what others say? Shigeru Ohmori (left) and Junichi Masuda (right)Ī lot of people talk about this being the first real Pokémon console RPG.
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