You know why Digimon failed while Pokemon grows stronger as a franchise with every next generation?
Because it's a fucking mess. It's unappealing. The designs are repetitive and ugly for the most part. There's so many of them and there's no way of ordering them. There's no Digidex. I remember a poster from when the series started coming out, and there was an organized list of Digimon, little over 120, kinda messy, in order of anime appearance, but it was so nice to look at. But no, they decided to drop the numbering system (hell, ANY organized system would be nice) and go fucking apeshit with all these new boring Digimen that no one cares about, save for faggots who never grew out of them in the first place (and, in consequence, never touched a member of the opposite sex). Only a complete fucking autist would be able to get into that franchise after all these years. Fuck Digimon.
But I never played the games, might try them out someday, because I heard they are fun.