Oh for sure. The Nintendo “stamp of quality” has definitely lost its shimmer. Now they’re just on the “where else are you gonna get Mario/Pokemon” train and they’re running it on us.

I think the thing people always forget was that Pokemon was never at the bleeding edge of tech. Don’t get me wrong some of the games did some impressive actions here and there, but they were never at the far front pioneering the way unless it was something pushed by Nintendo consoles themselves (like the 3DS or motion controls).

Not that excuses them, they’re a massive company/IP but they don’t need to do all the bells and whistles to sell Pokemon so why would they.

In space we can hear you scream, a long time later, and very very quietly.

I think they’re saying it’s Pokopia that’s a “ripoff” but Nvm I’ve seen some gen 10 stuff now, it looks like more of the same. anything nintendo makes lately it’s just animal crossing with a story and a different coat of paint like pokopia. Which is basically what Tomodachi life is too, minus the story and plus generated voices.

Idk if it’s “AI Slop”, but it definitely doesn’t shine like some of the old Nintendo polish used to. But maybe I’m also not their target audience

The problem is that you’re not just sending parts out there. You have to:

• get the upgrade rocket going fast enough to actually catch up with something going very fast with a 20 year head start
• slow down once you get to it.
• make the upgrades while floating in space on a piece of hardware that was designed not to be upgraded and built on earth (hope you don’t need gravity for disassembly) that you control on a 30 minute delay.

At that point we could just launch a whole new satellite with better hardware, going faster, and covering a completely different area of space. Which is what we have done. But we can still make use of the system we have out there. It’s still the furthest out, so it’s still worth using for as long as we can