>>35557980>I don't like all the gen 1 panderingWell too bad for you. Gen 1 undebatedly contains the most marketable Pokemon in the franchise. Back in the 90s you would see shit like Poliwhirl dead center on TIME magazine with a fucking Psyduck right next to him. Stuff like Meowth and Jigglypuff are iconic, even to normies, and those characters are literally some throwaway 'mons in the middle of nowhere that no one would bat an eye towards if they were like a Pokemon from gen 2 onward (fucking try and argue that I dare you). If you fired up those neurons in your brain you'd realize that The Pokemon Company would be fools to skip out on something this big especially since...
>Pokemon GO is deadWell yes, technically Pokemon GO's install base is substantially less than what it was like 3 months around launch. But you're conveniently leaving out on launch how over 300 million people were playing Pokemon GO at one point, so yeah 60 million is definitely less than 300+ million. But you're kidding yourself if you think that any corporation wouldn't commit genocide to have HALF of GO's CURRENT install base.
