Are Sony or MS capable of creating a cultural phenomenon like Pokemon Go?

[AlBunz]

NobleTeam360 said:

AlBunz said:

Branding as in merchandise outside of gaming. Pokemon as a game is not very big and has declined over the years. Pokemon Go being a free mobile game and a success has zero to do with the brand's popularity as people who never played it are playing it because it's free and accessible. People don't seem to understand that.

Brand was probably a bad word, I mean purely from a gaming stand point. Also I beg to differ on Pokemon as a game not being very big as a gaming franchise. 

We you add up the sales of all the rehashed Pokemon games. Yes. Pokemon is a successful gaming franchise but not big outside of it's core demographic. It does not sell well on Nintendo's home consoles. Add the fact most games in the series are bundled. Really it's a smoke screen that Nintendo has used for years. A well cracted smoke screen but a smoke screen none the less. Interesting to note is that nothing that advances gaming will come from this and this will further take Nintendo down the mediocre road that they have been on since the Wii.