>>54810023Ishihara did because he's a greedy businessman who immediately saw opportunity to bloat Pokemon into a multimedia abomination in its infant years, which in turn played a vital role in defining Pokemania once Pokemon was set to be localized.
And then when he slid over to TPC upon its inception, the company became more and more influentially powerful due to said multimedia abomination and put constant pressure on GameFreak to continue churning out games in order to keep the beast sated on an annual basis.
Nintendo's at fault too for enabling this since Pokemon has been a system seller since inception by giving the Gameboy several years of life support, but that's only because, most importantly to blame of them all...
The common consumer is the key culprit for Pokemon's decline. I don't think I need to elaborate too much about the common consumer for you to understand.
