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In the show it already has most of the data, I don't think it's ever elaborated on there either. The pokedex can be used as a trainer id somehow.
In first handful of games it needs to be manually completed. Owning a pokedex is quite rare though so it's not a crowdsourced task. Not entirely sure why it's not. It's made clear that the people with a pokedex at this time are favored by the professors. No connections or fateful encounters, no journey.
During the fifth generation I would say it had changed just based on the atmosphere in the first set of gen 5 games where it's acknowledged that the professor works with parents to enable their children to go on journeys. In the following two games going on a journey really seems to become a rite of passage, compared to the first four where the player character is very fortunate to have the opportunity.
By generation 8 the pokedex is now a public application that can be put on your phone, meaning it's probably crowdsourced at that point.
I'd always thought it was a rite of passage, just like in the show. In the show, Ash got Pikachu because he woke up late and all the other kids that were starting their journeys took all of the other starter pokemon. If I recall correctly it was at age 10 that kids start their pokemon journey.
In the game, the only 2 kids in Pallet Town started their pokemon journey at the same time. I always thought the games followed the show like that. I always thought it strange that your only competition with your rival was battles and not number of pokemon seen/caught in the pokedex.
Game came first.
Not sure how your comment us relevant. I'm talking about following that idea. That doesn't necessitate release order.
I thought the Pokedex was also available at the computers in the clinics, but maybe I'm remembering wrong. So the Pokedex is just a portable viewing device of the information, and the phone just made it a single app.
Nah, there was just an option to get the Professor's rating at the computers based on your progress. It's doesn't really do anything, and the feature gets removed later on.
In later games you'd want to talk with the professor(s) directly for item rewards, and the little screen certificates you get for a full completed dex have always come from the fourth wall breaking gamefreak employees in the game.