>>50493245The negative reception had nothing to do the news release, it was because Game Freak killed off over half of all Pokemon AND SwSh looked like shit.
Regardless the "negative reception" didn't fucking matter. Most Pokemon don't give two shits about the quality of Pokemon games, they just consume it because of the brand name. and shills attacked the few people who dared to expect that the highest grossing franchise in the history of the world be remotely decent.
