>>39868957here's the real truth: '90s nostalgia and "nerd culture" started becoming trendy with normalfags around the time bw came out. as a result, people who had stopped following pokemon sometime between the gs ball arc and ruby/sapphire started to hop back on the bandwagon again - only to be shocked and appalled that the franchise had moved on without them. the fact that bw didn't worship KANTOOOOO and shove pikachu and charizard in their faces every two seconds was considered an outrage.
when presented with a bunch of "fans" begging for less ambition, less new content and less effort on their part, game freak of course listened to them for future generations, and the rest is history.
