>>49970673Are people here really so young that they're totally unaware that the series fell out of popularity with the mainstream from gen 3 until gen 6? Less people playing games in the series = less sales.
There is also way more people playing games nowadays compared to back then and even more so with tons of switches bought just for the pandemic to the point there was a shortage. The 3DS Animal Crossing is one of the best selling of that console and at the time the sales numbers were incredible and surprising for that series, but it pales in comparison to the switch version sales which were insane for these exact factors also.
The fact SwSh sold as well as it did really surprised me initially, but following that I knew BDSP would sell well because the brand itself is in a boom right now. As well, the children of the original target demographic (millenials) started being born within the past decade, and their parents have nostalgia for this series so it's something they can do together with their kids and they pass the brand on. I remember that being a selling point of XY and I recall reading in an interview that they made the protagonists older to appeal to their original audience who would be a similar age then (iirc Serena/Calem were 17/18, I was 19 when XY came out and I started with Blue). Sort of the brand hanging on long enough to reach Disney status where now the adults all love it and have nostalgia for it.
So yeah, this isn't surprising. What actually surprises me is the fact that PLA is outselling BDSP and is still topping the charts in Japan. Really didn't expect that to happen, I thought it wouldn't do great numbers because it's so different.
