Terthna
Professional Lurker
As said in the video, this is less than what the previous two generations had in their Regional Dex; and considering the fact that they've already said the new games are not going to have a National Dex, this is unacceptable.
For those of you who haven't been paying attention, this is just the latest installment of the controversy surrounding the upcoming games for the Switch; which started when someone offhandedly mentioned in a random interview that there would be no more National Dex going forward, likely in the hopes that it would go unnoticed.
This video gives a decent summary on most of what happened since then, up to early July; as well as presents a decent theory as to why Gamefreak is doing this:
Personally; I don't really see the point anymore in playing the official games. Not when fan games, and other games in the genre, keep improving, while Gamefreak's output steadily declines in quality with each iteration. I've said this before elsewhere, but it bears repeating; Pokemon is quickly becoming the Madden of RPGs.