>>47665131Its in general way harder to make an impact on popular culture for a variety of reasons, including that brands now live way longer thanks to both popularization of nerd culture and the surge of an exploitable adult audience, plus the internet allowing for preservation, making everything more accesible.
In order to even have a shot at making a dent in pop culture you have to have large financial backing which is only doable by big companies who literally can't understand the notion of organic mouth-to-mouth popularity and want everything to be a smash hit the second it releases so every marketing attempt they might make will fall flat(or, at least, it wont reach pokemon, even if still profitable which is what most do anyways).
Also, setting your motivation as being a "pokemon killer" is unhealty at best, your motivation should be to give something new to the audience to profit off, not take pokemon's profits away, you have to make your own niche, which is what pokemon did because there was notthing like it, no matter how much edgelords bring DQ and SMT up. To be fair I don't think any of the other mon series were ever this retarded in any case.
There's also the fact that the West is not open to new brands in general so any remote similarity to pokemon will make the potential "killer" a pokemon clone.
Digimon, for instance, didn't set itself up as a pokemon killer, but failed at the last step, deciding to settle to be just a name associated to an old popular anime and trying to compete with the general JRPG sphere(such as the actual DQ, but most notably Persona) on which its mediochre at best resulting in the disaster that franchise is today.
