>>48302062Your theory is dumb because you're overlooking things like aggressive marketing, Nintendo's bigger budget than Bandai of America's despite the Tamagotchi bubble and having to allocate between toys and games afterwards, the importance of brand protection and controlled updates (new Digimon pop up every couple of weeks to a month, new Pokémon take years to set) and identity of the brand was spread out too thin.
Digimon has a lot of nice things going for it regardless what people think about the monster designs and humans but you gotta be an idiot to think that both were operating in a vacuum because Nintendo didn't sleep on the brand to make non-Japanese audiences "get" it.
