Khuutra said:
The continued popularity of the animated series would disagree with you - as well as the size of its audience at the height of its power, and the fact that its audience is still large enough to break 20 million units sold every generation. The question isn't even about "impact", though the collecting-and-controlling-of monsters impact of Pokemon is difficult to overstate, since it ended up having a lot to do with the eventual success of Yu-Gi-Oh and what have you. It's about being well known. For years, everyone in the United States and Japan knew what Pokemon was - I odn't know how it was in Europe, but once you go beyond the very narrow demograhic of the Internet Gamer Nerd, Pokemon is literally incomparable in its genre. |
What kind of impact has Pokemon made on the industry and the genre? aside from being phenomenally popular itself? The concept of collecting monsters has been used in RPGs before, and I dont see a lot of games inspired by Pokemon.
FFVII on the other hand has introduced cinematic way to tell a story and arguably brought the genre to 3d. But more importantly - it has brought the attention of masses to the whole genre and made it mainstream. Even today's RPGs are in many ways inspired by FFVII. It has really done something bigger than just "sold a lot"
