>>17332642Pet?
No sir, live in roommate,
In my opinion pokemon only did better because Bandai honestly sucked at making games back in the 90's.
Their bread and butter was and still is action figures and other toy products; you all are forgetting that the Digimon are actually just tamagachi's readopted for boys.
Plus Pokemon had Nintendo's backing which covers a wide variety of demographics.
>Girls who love plushies>Gamers>People who like cartoonsWhile Digimon only seemed to be specifically marketed to young boys, who loved warriors and action