>>45303417The games, the cards, the show, and the movies are all accessories to the merch sales now. You could combine all the money each of those branches have ever made and it's still less than the money generated by merch sales. Hell, even on the games side, in the 4 years since Pokemon GO has began operation it has generated almost 1/3rd of the entirety of the 17 billion dollars in revenue the entire Pokemon video game IP has made since the launch of Red and Blue all on it's own.
Pokemon is the Star Wars of video games, its a glorified toy brand masquerading as a media giant.
