>>49012488before ruby and sapphire came to the west:
>crystal was already a massive flop (still the lowest-selling mainline game in the series)>the anime turned into endless filler when the writers weren't allowed to finish the gs ball arc>pokemon 3 got crushed head-to-head by spy kids; pokemon 4ever was an outright box office bomb>hasbro lost $25 million in Q1 2001 and cited declining sales of pokemon toys and trading cards as the primary reason>yu-gi-oh's anime premiered on kids wb in late 2001; yu-gi-oh then became the #1 toy brand in early 2002for the millionth time, gen 3 didn't kill pokemania. it had already been dead for over a year by the time gen 3 premiered in the west.
