>>49617348Porygon2 was already deemed a failure when compared to more standard contemporaries in spacefaring, it lacked any capacity to truly traverse the cosmos despite having all the immunity necessary to the harsh environment, and it was clearly too much of a no-return investment for Silph to want to continue developing for it, especially when Team Rocket smuggled Porygon into the public via the Game Corner, causing its purpose to be lost entirely as it was now only valued as a rare, manmade Pokemon capable of traversing digital worlds.
Thus, they canned the project entirely, made the Upgrade into a commemorative gift of sorts that eventually found circulation, and the line became nothing more than an odd note in human history and a novelty for eccentric collectors, some of which were evidently daring enough to develop Porygon-Z.
