>>46382216>Mario is a "kid's game" but Odyssey was still fun.Mario was created specifically to get teens and adults to fork over 100Y coins in Japanese arcades kid. They didn't let kids infest arcades in those days. Furthermore, Zelda came along when they were trying to convince people to buy video games (particularly in America, when the industry had crashed heavily) meaning they *needed* to push the games at the family, no point trying to sell the game to kiddies if daddy said no and didn't buy.
Pokémon was created specifically because Tajiri saw the cable and imagined a caterpillar crawling along it, eventually expanding it into the kiddy virtual creature collectathon that is Pokémon.Since its westward launch, it's done NOTHING but target children, even going as far as to ignore its current audience and re-target the EXACT same 6-12 age bracket they did 3 years previously when launching GS, RS, DP, BW (see a pattern?), XY SM and SS.
Maybe learn the historical factors that ended up creating these characters, but all else was *pushed* towards kids after the adults stopped pushing them as hard, Pokémon ALWAYS targeted kids, I don't know why you retards think they're comparable in the slightest.
