>>29221777Sonic the Hedgehog as a game disproves you with its mere existence.
It hasn't had a good game in twenty years, yet the brand is still going strong and rehashed endlessly.
Meanwhile Pokemon has an even stronger brand, isn't constantly releasing garbage, and has potentially an even more autistic fanbase. If you have an atusitic fanbase then that's it, you have a solid fanbase for the rest of forever no matter what you do. You can keep releasing whatever kind of game and it'll sell due to the brand and due to the loyalists. The bar doesn't have to be set to high.
Killing pokemon as a brand would be basically impossible even if they were trying to do it. Its like pretending that Star Wars Prequels killed Star Wars. Even as bad as they were it couldn't do it.
