>>45047557It's absolutely valid to express your displeasure that way, because for all intents and purposes, if something is removed from the games, and the games are all you care about, then yes for you it's effectively been deleted. Furthermore, YOUR logic ignores the possibility that missing Pokemon will quietly disappear from marketing and merchandising over time.
>Games and "merchandise" have been largely separated for the sake of argument and consistency before, so I don't see why we should suddenly stop.Because it's an erroneous measurement of the actual impact of video game sales in the franchise. You are measuring video games against literally every piece of Pokemon merchandise that hasn't merited explicit mention in the figures. You called my logic on the other subject flawed, but I'd be hard pressed to find logic more flawed than "let's compare the profits from one piece of merchandise to the profits of a bajillion." It's like if you compared the usefulness of a single tank to an entire army of people. Sure the army is better than a single tank but it's not exactly indicative of a tank's actual worth within an entire military.
Furthermore, about profits specifically. You are fucking out of your mind if you think Pokemon is anything resembling big budget. I would bet my fucking life that the games profit hand over fist. The whole reason I'm harping on this specific aspect to begin with is because shills and bean counters assert that the video games don't make enough money to justify additional investment. That's bullshit, and I'd hope you can at least admit that's complete bullshit. I don't even want AAA open world memes like some other anons, all I want is for these games to have the content that's been standard for years and a little spec of polish. I would be perfectly fine with something that looked like X and Y in HD if they did that.
