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This is often true. But some times the older programmers can't adapt to the new technology and we get technical disasters like the newer Pokemon games.

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
> can't adapt to This is probably more appropriately said as "don't know". To give a past example, Final Fantasy 7 was pretty famous for having bad character models but it didn't take long for the same team to figure out how to make better ones. FF8 had much more real-looking models. Not many games today look significantly better than FF15 on standard console hardware. Probably the "disaster" in the Pokemon game context is that Nintendo didn't feel the need to keep up rather than that they couldn't keep up. I get the feeling that the generation 10 games are going to be a strong counter statement to such comments. Likely in no small part because the people working on it are the same people who released the games which critics like to call a disaster.
- emmp 3y ago
  Nintendo does not develop the Pokemon games for what it is worth. The quality of Game Freak's output is notably lower than Nintendo first party releases in general from a technical perspective. Even the original Pokemon games are some of the most famously buggy games of any prominence, so it is nothing new.
- astura 3y ago
  >Probably the "disaster" in the Pokemon game context is that Nintendo didn't feel the need to keep up rather than that they couldn't keep up. Nintendo is the publisher of the Pokemon games and co-owner of the Pokemon IP. However, they do NOT develop the Pokemon games - that's Game Freak.
Jensson 3y ago
That was a team making gameboy games switching to making home console games, it will take a bit for them to adapt. But letting them adapt and learn new skills is probably better for the economy than firing them like we would do in the west.
rightbyte 3y ago
I don't know about "can't adapt". As I get older my willingness to put up with programming fads has gone to zero though. I guess that is some form of can't adapt. Then again I have only worked for 8 years.
- tap-snap-or-nap 3y ago
  We fall back on the tried, tested and more reliable methods and fads seem to become glaringly obvious. This can easily be assumed as inadaptability. Maybe I am just old now.

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago

> can't adapt to This is probably more appropriately said as "don't know". To give a past example, Final Fantasy 7 was pretty famous for having bad character models but it didn't take long for the same team to figure out how to make better ones. FF8 had much more real-looking models. Not many games today look significantly better than FF15 on standard console hardware. Probably the "disaster" in the Pokemon game context is that Nintendo didn't feel the need to keep up rather than that they couldn't keep up. I get the feeling that the generation 10 games are going to be a strong counter statement to such comments. Likely in no small part because the people working on it are the same people who released the games which critics like to call a disaster.

emmp 3y ago
Nintendo does not develop the Pokemon games for what it is worth. The quality of Game Freak's output is notably lower than Nintendo first party releases in general from a technical perspective. Even the original Pokemon games are some of the most famously buggy games of any prominence, so it is nothing new.
astura 3y ago
>Probably the "disaster" in the Pokemon game context is that Nintendo didn't feel the need to keep up rather than that they couldn't keep up. Nintendo is the publisher of the Pokemon games and co-owner of the Pokemon IP. However, they do NOT develop the Pokemon games - that's Game Freak.

Jensson 3y ago

That was a team making gameboy games switching to making home console games, it will take a bit for them to adapt. But letting them adapt and learn new skills is probably better for the economy than firing them like we would do in the west.

rightbyte 3y ago

I don't know about "can't adapt". As I get older my willingness to put up with programming fads has gone to zero though. I guess that is some form of can't adapt. Then again I have only worked for 8 years.

tap-snap-or-nap 3y ago
We fall back on the tried, tested and more reliable methods and fads seem to become glaringly obvious. This can easily be assumed as inadaptability. Maybe I am just old now.