

Do you enjoy the higher-level view after directing so many of the earlier games? Masuda, you’re the producer again this time.

That’s great for us, and I hope people will be interested in giving Pokémon Sun and Moon a go if they’re looking for a more in-depth experience. So Pokémon Go didn’t really affect any of the development decisions, though I do think that thanks to Pokémon Go there’s an increased awareness of Pokémon in general. With the main series games, we instead focus on catching Pokémon but also on raising them and adventuring with them and having a lot of strategically deep battles, where players can then use the Pokémon they caught in those battles. We wanted people to just enjoy going out and catching Pokémon. Our goal with Pokémon Go was to put the focus on the catching Pokémon element. Pokémon Go uses location-based information where you walk around in the real world to find Pokémon and catch Pokémon. Masuda: We began Pokémon Go‘s development as a project that would be different from the main series roleplaying games we create at Game Freak.
