HikenNoAce said:
| MDMAlliance said:
Europe has several millions of people who are pokemon fans. Your profile says you live in the UK, which is one of the larger markets for videogaming in Europe. I would say maybe 25%?
So that would mean around 1 million people playing pokemon in a country of a population of 64 million. That's one in 64 people. That number goes up for every child you know. If you know less than a hundred people, I can see it happening. However, I would say most people in 1st world countries know over 200 people, especially in countries with population sizes such as USA or your own.
edit: Also, it was already assumed from your earlier comment that you live in an area where Nintendo does exist and that pokemon exists as well. Yes, I know that. You want to treat me like an idiot? I can do the same.
If we assume that the area you live in is 22m population, and a few hundred thousand is 400,000. The distribution is still relatively high unless you barely know anyone. It's not nearly as rare as you make it out to be. The chances are not really that high at all.
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Well, in terms of probability, I need to know 55 to know a Pokemon player. And by know I mean meet them and socialise with them regularly. So, as you see, mathematically, it is very likely that someone either doesn't know anyone who played Pokemon or know of someone playing Pokemon.
Also, I noticed that you posted sales of a Pokemon games from 7 years ago. You know trends and lives change rapidly in that span, especially when you're young.
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Whenever you narrow "know" THAT much, it becomes much harder to "know" someone who plays pokemon. Almost no one uses the word "know" in that sense. There are people who have literally 0 people they meet and socialize with regularly. So you're really playing around with this.
Also, I posted those two rather than the more recent ones because it isn't fair to post more recent numbers due to the fact that Black and White and Black and White 2 have significantly lower sales in Europe due to piracy and stuff on the DS. Otherwise I would have used the data there. You should also know that throughout the whole pokemon series' life, data has shown that MORE adults and teens play pokemon NOW than BEFORE. So yes, they do CHANGE, but against your hypothesis. Not only that, but you can see across the board that Pokemon has been maintaining millions of sales across generations, only exception being Europe due to heavy piracy on the DS. You'll see you're proven wrong when X and Y in Europe has over 4 million sales.
