>>53929767gamefreak just got extremely lucky with pokemon desu
not so great developers who happened to come up with the PERFECT idea for a game
most of their non-pokemon games have been complete flops both financially and as games (at least in the last few years, pulseman, drill dozer, and that rhythm 3ds game seem like ok games)
if it weren't for pokemon, they would've been out of business years ago and most of us would've never heard of them