>>7959536Mid 2000s was definitely a peak for tamagotchi popularity, it started to fall off by V5 in 2008 and then V6 was really the end of the "golden age" connection era. The market had moved on and they spent the next 10 years trying to start over with a few rebrands and new gimmicks for releases that were dumbed down and primitive compared to what they used to be, so they lost the remaining fans as well.
Last year they stopped trying to do their own thing and finally released one of the japanese color tamagotchis internationally, I have no idea if it sold well though. It wouldn't surprise me if the price turned most parents off and was too high for most kids to be able to buy it for themselves
