>>58348707That's because the difference in target audiences for both of them is an insane 5 years' gap. That's generally how it happens, games that launch for older audiences generally need to put greater effort into the end result, because older audiences are more fickle and judge games more stringently than children and doubly so than those who buy into pokémon each and every year. This is why every moncap RPG aimed at 12's/16's/older ALL do things far better than Pokéon, yet all lag horrifically to Pokémon in terms of reception and revenue, because Pokémon has a pipeline of virgin game players to make money off, the rest get Pokémon's cast-offs as they grow out of the demographic and out of the IP, but not out of the core premise of a monster-catcher RPG.
