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Pokémon Sun and Moon the franchise in general and that they were working to develop interactivity between the app and the main series. Ohmori added that during the development of "Sun and Moon" they "completely redesigned the system, and actually ended up pushing the 3DS even further to what [they] thought was the most [they] could draw out of it." With a team of around 120, the games took about three years to develop, comparable with other new-generation games. Later on, Kazumasa Iwao, who was responsible for the battle systems in "Sun and Moon", was recruited as director for "Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon".