S.Peelman said:
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pezus said
stuff about Pokémon in a discussion with some other people and then, together with others, made a conclusion about the series declining.
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To be fair, you can't really conclude the series declining though, because there isn't enough to compare.
Generation on generation, Pokémon sales have indeed went up: the first game on DS, Diamond/Pearl, outsold the first game on GBA, Ruby/Sapphire.
Of course it's not unnatural for a game newer than another to have lower sales due to legs, so it's no surprise Black/White has sold less than Diamond/Pearl. Secondly, Diamond/Pearl's third game, Platinum, outsold Ruby/Sapphire's third game, Emerald. The pattern is the same during the GB generation, only that generation sold the most yes. It goes GB > DS > GBA. So after a low point during the GBA generation, sales of the series went up during the DS generation. Personally, I don't see why it would decline again but that's besides the point. I have no agenda here, so I don't really care either way.
The actual problem is though, that the GBA didn't have a second main-line Pokémon game to compare Black/White to and thus also no third game to compare Black/White 2 to. Also, the remake on DS, Heartgold/Soulsilver, outsold the remake on GBA, thingy/thingy. Comparing X/Y pre-orders to Black/White pre-orders makes no sense in any way anyway.
The only really fair thing to do right now is compare X/Y pre-orders to Diamond/Pearl pre-orders, because they both have the same context, and draw your conclusions from there.
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