mountaindewslave on 11 March 2016
| Illusion said: I kind of fell away from video games back in the early-2000's and at the time it looked the Pokémon fad was starting to die off (at least that was what people were saying). I started gaming again a few years ago and while I knew that there were new generations of Pokémon still coming out I assumed that it was just some niche franchise by now. I was shocked to see that the games are still selling 10-15 million and is possibly Nintendo's biggest franchise. Go Pokémon! That said, my heart will always be back in gen 1 and 2! |
well the CARD game began to decline in popularity in the early 2000s (which was obviously going to happen given the massive popularity it managed to get by like 99').
the Pokemon games have been insanely consistent though. every iteration has sold well as far as handheld versions go.
even the card game is still easily in the top 3 most popular trading card games today and has plenty of tournaments (that said obviously with technology trading card games have decreased in popularity dramatically).
