>>54533740Pokemon never jumped the shark. Instead, it's been slowly declining in quality. There was no moment that was cool, yet so implausible that we've thrown out the rules of the game. The decline in quality is because Pokemon is cutting corners to push annual releases to push merch sales instead of making good games.
All of the software industry is really bad, in fact. Software has never been as buggy and poorly written as it is now, because "you can just patch it later" and "the hardware is so good, we don't have to optimize".
