>>54655848>What killed Pokemania?>posts a bunch of random shit from 10-15 years after Pokémania endedPokémon's meteoric rise to becoming the most popular media franchise in the world in the late 90s to the turn of the millennium was a period of unprecedented success and infiltration of global pop culture. It was also not sustainable, after a few years they reached total media saturation and the "fad" died down to "only" being a massive cash cow instead of actively dominating all forms of entertainment.
In more recent years, the Pokémon GO fad captured something like that total pop culture saturation again, but only briefly, and it didn't immediately translate to wider success across the franchise.
Only now in the Switch Era has Pokémon seen a revival even approaching the Game Boy days. Generation 8 and 9 have both outsold Gold & Silver, selling almost 50% more than any other game in the last 20 years. Even lesser titles have set franchise records, with LGPE and BDSP each being the best-selling remakes and PLA outselling Yellow as the best-selling single-version game.
TL;DR your zoomer nostalgia for the mid-2000s and thinking that modern "nu-Pokémon" is unpopular, not well regarded or killed the series is unfounded
