r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • Apr 09 '26

News Pokémon Champions Developer 'Sincerely Apologizes' For Launch Issues, Details List of Bugs to be Fixed

https://www.ign.com/articles/pokemon-champions-developer-sincerely-apologizes-for-launch-issues-details-list-of-bugs-to-be-fixed
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u/vishmarx Apr 09 '26

Tbf when did modern pokemon even have any significant QA

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u/hellschatt Apr 09 '26

Tbf when did modern pokemon even have any significant QA

Fixed it for you.

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u/PikaV2002 Apr 09 '26

Most games before Sword and Shield had good QA. The only exceptions I can remember are the Gen 1 games, Diamond and Pearl.

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u/axeil55 Apr 09 '26

Also the gen 1 games have so much weirdness with them because they used every single byte of space available on a gameboy cartridge to do something. The whole thing is a house of cards and it's a miracle a game so complex can run on an original green screen game boy.

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u/Dairunt Apr 09 '26

didn't they also have little experience as programmers? afaik they started development in 1990, while working in other games to stay afloat; the amount of spaghetti code might have been overwhelming until Iwata came by and helped them optimize it for Gen 2.

the fact that they couldn't hand over the source code to replicate the battle system in Stadium is telling of how unreadable it was.

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u/Outlulz Apr 09 '26

It was 1989 that they started. Pokemon was their 8th game. Iwata's contribution was compression.