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Kai_Mao on 28 February 2019
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Nautilus said:
zorg1000 said:

Gen 3-Gen 7 have all sold 15-17 million, that doesnt happen unless it's a beloved series.

Also most Pokemon spinoffs sell well so I dont know what you're talking about there. Take a look at the game database.

As well as Mario Kart?As Mario Tennis Aces(going for 3 million and beyond)?Mario RPGs?So much so that they are all franchises of their own.

There is sell well, and there is sell WELL.But you guys understood what I said.Is it that hard to understand that there is people, and in great quantity, that are not satisfied by Sword and Shield?

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Pokemon Stadium, Pokemon Ranger, and Pokemon Colosseum sold well enough to be their own respective series. All done by different developers too.

Mario Kart is a different beast. But outside of that, the Mario RPG series has sold just as well as the Mystery Dungeon series. 

Again, as Zorg said, check the databases. It's not that drastic of a difference, if there is any, at all, between the Mario sub-series and the Pokemon sub-series.

Pokemon, despite your claims, is still a beloved franchise and has been going strong to this day. Why do you think there is a Detective Pikachu movie, new Pokemon stores, new TCG series, new anime, and the annual Pokemon World Championships? Why do you think Pikachu was given the mantle of being the mascot of the Japanese football team that competed for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, one of the biggest sporting events in the world? All of this would not happen if not for the enduring passion of the players who buy the games over the years. Let's not act like the revenue Pokemon has built was front-loaded back in the late-90s and early 2000s or something.

If you are critical of the upcoming games, that's fine. You're not alone in this one as evident in this thread. Pokemon will continue to grow whether you see it or not.