>>44307732>The state of the franchise has changed.Can't disagree that rules are being broken, but it's more of a leap of logic to throw everything out the window rather than the logical conclusion that this one game has broken the tradition and doesn't fall into any generation.
>compatibility between all main series games of one generation has been brokenExcept, no it hasn't. Like I said, SM and USUM still have everything that's mutual, fully compatible with each other. Nothing else proves this point other than continuing to insist that LGPE belong in Gen 7 when there is nothing mutual between the two other than Kanto mons being in both games. I forgot to bring up LGPE don't even carry any Gen 7 mons other than Alolan forms which are just a cameo if anything, so how can these really be extensions of SM instead of extensions of GO? The latter makes much more sense.
The classification absolutely does matter, it means that we can just lower the standard of what counts as within a generation and eventually they'll start launching apps instead of real games and they'll get treated as core games. Not to say the LGPE aren't core games, their existence as they are is fine.
