>>48738435And its lifetime sales since its initial release 16 years ago is just barely more than one new Gen pairing released between Gens III-VII, excluding Gen IV.
People like the pokémon, love the plushies and plastic crap feturing them. They don't give a shit about furfag simulator though - the vast majority of normies don't want to be anything other than human - as evidenced by their ignoring the one game in the franchise that has you play as a non-human character, while the child drones ate it up because "Pokéons111".