>>46128937It's not a commercial failure, it's a business one. Unfortunately, that's the same rut Pokemon has been in for years.
The goal of a company is always to grow, if Pokemon is getting sales that are par for the course then it's failing. That's why even though projects like PMD, Ranger, or Detective Pikachu did commercially good, it's still not good enough for them to warrant keeping it when they don't even dent the mainline titles.
They struck gold with GO, not because they did anything right with it, but because it's what the people needed and TPCI also happened to need a mobile outlet of that calibur.
That's just how things work in TPCI.
