Almost all of my friends prefer xy to sm. The normies say they miss gyms and think the story drags on too long and the hardcore pokemon fans say they hate how OP z-moves are and how much competitive features were gutted. I keep finding out more and more friends couldn't be bothered to finish the game, some of the hardcore fans just jumped straight to competitive pokemon without bothereing to do the main game.

Yet on /vp/ it's somehow considered gospel that sm are better and any different opinion considered bait. Is it just the different age groups? My friends are all in their early 20's and people here are quite a bit younger than that.