The Nintendo DS and 3DS

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Prowler

The Switch doesn't count since it's hybrid and the games for it are designed in the same way they are for any domestic console.

The Switch is portable but a little too big to fit in your pockets.

Are you forgetting about the Switch Lite? It's not a hybrid and it does fit in your pockets.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Are you forgetting about the Switch Lite? It's not a hybrid and it does fit in your pockets.

I forgot about it, but even if it does indeed fit in your pockets and is exclusively portable... it still plays the exact same games as the original Switch model. Therefore the "issue" persists. None of the exclusive titles for the Switch have the handheld video game philosophy design in mind.

Playing Breath of the Wild on the go would have been like playing FF7 or Ocarina of Time on the go in 1998 instead of playing Link's Awakening DX or something on the Game Boy Colour.

[Kold Pizza]

What I will always remember most about the Nintendo DS and 3DS eras was how fun it was to be a fan of Pokemon and get invested in not only the games, but also the epic adventures as well as the Pokemon you raised.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Kold Pizza

What I will always remember most about the Nintendo DS and 3DS eras was how fun it was to be a fan of Pokemon and get invested in not only the games, but also the epic adventures as well as the Pokemon you raised.

Did that really stop? I still see Pokémon games being made. It did seem to me that the supply of new games maybe didn't regularly meet the demand and people got bored with it.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Did that really stop? I still see Pokémon games being made. It did seem to me that the supply of new games maybe didn't regularly meet the demand and people got bored with it.

Pokémon did not do the transition into 3D that well. It started out in gen 6 with Pokémon X/Y on the 3DS, funny enough. Sun and Moon also came out on the 3DS and it was better. I'd say gen 7 games are the best 3D Pokémon games to date after ORAS which are just 3D remakes of Ruby/Sapphire which came out on the GBA.

Pokémon Scarlet/Violet on the Switch is the first ever open world Pokémon game and it's a glitchy mess at times. Also just look at videos from it. It doesn't look anywhere as good as other open world games from its era or from even many years before like The Witcher III.

Gamefreak got really sloppy with Pokémon around XY/Gen 6 and I guess Nintendo must not have upped their budget or something. 3D games need a significantly higher budget than 2D ones do. Especially open world ones like Scarlet/Violet.