Exactly this. They put development effort into creating Home to succeed Home, and then went the extra mile of giving it Let's Go and Go integration... To then just put some amount of the Pokemon you can send to it into absolute prison? Apparently the companion app will enable you to trade directly from there.. woo... But not ever actually freaking use them until they decide it's time in the future.

There isn't a good excuse anymore. Cutting Pokemon wholesale for any reason anymore just shouldn't be done.

Edit: Oh GREAT! Apparently we shouldn't expect to EVER see every Pokemon in the same game again.
Supposed more complete translation of what he said.

So the corgi pokemon is real so that means that leak I posted is real.

Watch that she is like 11 or 12 years old.

This is Pokemon. She's clearly like 26 :lol

I remember Masuda saying he had some pretty controversial ideas. Considering the outrage is worldwide and Game Freak clearly won't care, I suggest not buying the game

Canceled.

Pokémon Sword & Shield will not have Mega Evolution or Z-Moves

So I guess I'm a bad person because I'm still really excited for Sword/Shield. Even though I've been keeping a Pokemon collection since Emerald and have brought them forward every generation, I always treat the new Gens like a fresh start. It allows me to try out the new Pokemon and also find new interesting team combos.

Am I disapointed that not all Pokemon will be available in S/S? Sure, a little. But think about this. People are forgetting we won't be getting Home and the ability to transfer till sometime next year. Its always possible that they can update the games to fit in more Pokemon by then (and even then, your not going to be able to transfer your collection in right away anyway). But even if they don't, I'm still excited to play the games. Also, no Z moves or Megas are not a big thing for me.

So in short, I'm still really excited to play the new Generation, so I guess I'm a bad person or a corporate shill or whatever.

You know you can like the game and be excited about it without acting like you're being attacked because people have a different opinion than you, right

I know, and I was not trying to attack anyone or imply that I was being attacked. If I did I'm sorry. I just feel that in some places its become a negative thing to actually be excited for the game because of this whole "no national dex" fiasco. Like I said, I'm a little bummed that its not going to be a thing, and would rather the game have it, but its not a dealbreaker for me.

In theory, game patches are extremely possible, but Game Freak has proven themselves extremely unwilling to use them to update game content. It's been about three generations since doing so would have been a reasonable thing to do, and they have not done it yet. The only thing we can go by at this point is their past behavior, so any expectation that they have any plans to do so now is largely unfounded.

I guess the part I was going to reply to got edited out by the time I got to posting, but still, I'd say expressing your distaste towards a major decision through social media is exactly the right thing to do if you want it to be addressed, and a good use of your time if it is something that is important to you. And yeah, it's just a video game, but these things matter to people. A decision like this has repercussions not just for an initial playthrough but the entire lifespan of the game, and the franchise as a whole if it's something they decide to stick with, as they appear to be. If a little online outrage can help turn the tides against things like this, then let the outrage happen. It's the only way the people making the games will notice.

Don't get me wrong, I want to be excited for this game. I was up until yesterday. I'm still excited to see what else new is in store for the series. I just personally can't see myself actually buying it anymore. I don't have a Switch, but under the right circumstances I was fully prepared to buy one just for Pokemon. Buying entire consoles just as Pokemon machines is something I've done before and something I could fully justify in the past because of how much I actually got out of it, if not just the core gameplay, the freedom to do whatever I wanted once it was done. Limiting the Pokemon in the game pretty much kills the already lacking post-game, it constrains breeding, battling, battle facilities, wonder trade, pretty much everything. I have thousands of hours racked up across my (3)DS games, and I doubt I'd get a fraction of that out of Sword or Shield. For something I'd have to drop almost 400 bucks for, with a decision like this I vehemently disagree with? It's not happening.

I imagine the decision is less big for people who already own a Switch, but also no less easy since there are plenty, plenty of other games for the system that look great and aren't regressive in their development.

None of which should really be taken as an indictment against people who are still looking forward to it, the ones who bungled this whole thing is Game Freak. And you know, I get it, because there's people who would say there's been an awful decline in Pokemon games for years now, and I still count myself as someone who greatly enjoyed the past couple gens. I like the games, I like the hype, I love the buildup to a new gen every time. There's just a breaking point for everyone, and I guess for a lot of us, it was at not being able to catch them all.