>>37189417>I refuse to believe that anyone was disabled enough to think pokemon lets go would outsell one of the most hyped up games this year.My investor brief believed it should have, but didn't know any of the details of the game and was agnostic to the hate campaign against it. Based on pure numbers, if you claim LGPE is a mainline Pokemon game, it was expected to sell at a minimum as well as the last one on a new console (Pokemon X and Y). It was expected to drive Switch sales.
If anything, LGPE could have been a total disaster if not for the Detective Pikachu trailer, which aired a week before the launch and triggered massive short term interest in Pokemon again. There was similar mania when GO launched that drew attention to current events in the XYZ anime.
