What's with Pokemon?

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garretslarrity said:

Paatar said:

ktay95 said:

Skidmore said:

Twenty years later and it's still kicking as strong as it was a new IP. It sells twice/three times all other games non-Mario related(Animal Crossing aside) in the 3DS.

In DS and GB era I thought it was that huge userbase, but in the 3DS is the same story all over again, OR/AS are dominating the chartz, and they are just a remake.

What makes us buy the same game over and over again for that long without any major innovation(just overhauls to typing/battle)? 

VGC sales tend to disagree with you here

Gen 1>2>4>3>5>6 in terms of the main games. So if anything it has slowly declined each generation, the DS being the saviour selling nearly 2:1 vs the GBA allowing gen 4 to take 3rd over gen 3. So its really not even close to being the behemoth it once was even if sales are still really strong.

However, if we were doing install bases, there were over 140m GBA's and about 158m DS's. If we were to use install base of the units, then X and Y would be over 24m right now...

There were not 140M GBAs.  There were 81.51M GBAs.

Sorry, I was referring to the original gameboy series, not Gameboy Advanced. Those all together actually 118m. I for some reason was thinking of something else. But the original Pokemon games which sold the most, were on the Gameboy and could be played on Gameboy advanced.