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fatslob-:O said:
noname2200 said:

Those things don't make X "more" sci-fi than fantasy though, they just mean the science in X is more advanced. The original Star Trek series is no more or less sci-fi than Deep Space Nine, for example, notwithstanding replicators, holorooms, faster warp drives, and other technomagic.

The definition of "science fiction" is imaginitive content of science ...

No it isn't. Per dictionary.com: "fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes."

But even taking your definition, I'm assuming you never got too far in Xenoblade, since it's more than just the mechs that's beyond what we can do: off the top of my head there's fully autonomous robotic armies, magic-like genetic engineering, post-Turing AI's, cybernetics advanced enough to effectively change one's species, and an entire civilization that's at the Jetsons level. You're being way too narrow in your thinking. Xenoblade is as sci-fi as Star Wars, complete with The Force.