>>28287531Gen 5 is the Pokemon fan's gen. It has all the indepth features that us /vp/oreons love to jizz over, like PWT, Pokestar Studios, Hidden Abilities and a healthy serving of
cool new pokemon to train.
What it is not is the casual player's gen, which probably contributed to why it sold so poorly. The decision to focus almost exclusively on the new pokemon, rather than filling the game with genwunner bait like XY did, definitely didn't help matters. Like it or not we need to meet in the middle with the casuals somewhere, if every gen was as good as V from our perspective then the franchise would fail pretty quickly because diehard fans just can't support a series by themselves.