>>37345279Ratings are a shitty explanation overall anyway so it really is dumb to say XY had shitty ratings when the shift to online has been prominent since long before. All that can really be said is that Gen 6 held on to things better than Gen 7's had.
As for the movies, they can't really do much with the cast and with how small they painted the region, especially how they're pretty much stuck in a school.