>>46299446Yep, 'cause they'd added new content to the game. That's the thing, when they do a third version, they add more pokémon to the base region, they weren't doing DLC without adding new pokémon, as it's now the third version successor.
They're still missing around 300, will almost certainly include pokémon like Regidrago to the list of Pokémon in Sinnoh's code, but not in the actual game, requiring to trade for it and its new sibling to unlock Snowpoint Temple's Regigigas and in other cases, flat-out not include others, per their rule of Dexit.
See, it's not about *this* Gen or even the one after, it's in Gen XV, when they're starting to push 1400 of the cunts and still only have 3 years from Nintendo to get the latest entry in their long-running kid's franchise out the door to start off selling to the next set of children. Rip the band-aid off now and let the air heal it, because frankly when the time comes, no-one will think it was a bad idea, just badly-explained one. But people walk around wearing bifocals, their vision's that bad.