>>50925846The weirdest thing is that it was released in January. If they were confident in it, it would've been the Christmas title and BDSP would've been pushed back (or never commissioned, since it seems no one at Gamefreak even wanted to make it).
Actually, the merch situation reminds me of the Mandalorian. When that show came out everyone wanted Baby Yoda merch, but there was no Baby Yoda merch, because nobody at Disney thought anyone would care. It's easy to forget that these big franchises have merch planned months in advance - when in-demand merch is suspiciously absent for a long period of time, that means they assumed no one would want it.
