>>46494259honestly they missed their chance with gen 6-7 era. that was their shot and they fucked it up.
20 anniversary coming soon. The revival of old faces with megas, the possibility of ash winning the kalos cup and becoming a master, and thus, challenging trainers all over the world to follow their pokemon dreams.
Go was still big, but damn it lost people due to believing a pokemon ip would have very little people on their servers.
either that, or Sun and moon should've been the big revival that gen 6 was leading up to, I even remember cute commercials for it, inviting people of all ages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkaPpwOhr8YYou can tell they kinda tried, but for some idiotic reason they dropped megas (Im not a fan of how broken they are, but damn they're really popular), S/M became the worst games to date, GO never finished to disappoint, the anime ended with a bad taste and brought upon alolan ash to announce everyone they dont have to watch that shit anymore,
It had to all come together, instead, the franchise became so fucking shit I don't belive they can pull it off again even if they wanted, even if some products from time to time spark a bit of joy, its not enough anymore, so now they only rely on the nostalgia from a time when the company did good, so of course it still sells.