It just took over 2 freaking decades, but it finally happened, the brainchild of some autistic kid who cheated its way to the success on the gaming world might finally kick the bucket.
When every gaming developer was trying their hardest to unveil the challenges of the third dimension, some small privileged company who was taken by the umbrella of the creators of "bing-bing-wahooo" got a free pass to develop to an almost dead 8 bit system and made some collect-a-thon game which the collectibles were creatures with 2 frames of animation, they made sucess nonetheless, even when they proved to be incompetent hack with their coding, they had almost everything to back-up their asses, ranging from a successful cartoon, legion of fans, spin-offs, fundings and etc.
When every major developer was trying their best with detailed 3d enviroments with their GTAs, Silent Hills and Metal Gears, these hacks just made their jump to 16 bits, and this at the same time Dragon Quest got guts to go full 3D.
When gaming already got a long way with high-tech hardware showcasing works like GTA V and The Witcher 3, these privileged cheaters started developing to PS2 tier hardware.
And when fate finally called to go up against the big boys of gaming industry, they just entered in denial:
In a world where smartphones dominate handheld gaming, Nintendo's Switch was a big risk. That risk paid off.
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The final result?
A broken garbage trying to larp as an open world JRPG with the FOV of a freaking ant.
Of all Nintendo IPs I always saw pokemon as an ever growing parasitical fungus latched on the company's back, it had their fans and success sure, but when the burden grew way too large carry there would be no more practical way to deal with it.
Over 900 autistic looking creatures and not even the company who created all of them wants to deal with it anymore.
The best way now going foward would be letting the IP going into a 10+ year long hiatus and round up a qualified team to re-start again, because as it stands right now I really doubt any sane company would want to take this slave's job of fully animating and programming 1000 unique looking actors into a decadent JRPG system and attract to itself the most autistic fanbase of any kind of media ever.
I think the worst of all, is that this 2 decades on the making trainwreck, inspired dozens of autists to take a jab on the gaming industry giving the birth of this overdone look-a-like indie games