Why did Pokemon remove SO MANY Pokemon from the older generations?

Dec. 24, 2020

I’ve noticed recently that alot of Pokemon have been missing from Pokemon sword and shield. Meltan that was not even accessible to the player in main game was also unavailable in Pokemon sword. Can someone give me a detailed explanation why Pokemon would do this?

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There were too many PokémonIf you look at the Pokémon list, it’s at898excluding forms. Game Freak didn’t want to code all of the Pokémon in to the game, becuase it’d be too hard and take too long (also known as them rushing it out before Christmas). Game Freak is also accused of recycling old animations from older generations. Game Freak instead worked on making the sprites for Pokémon good.

Hope this helps!