>>50927725Anon, the average the series has historically sold is 16m. Pokémania bumped Gen 1 and 2's sales, everything until the Switch and core games getting featured on home console hardware, leading to an increase in the available market (there were less overall Switch units owned in 2019 compared to the lifetime GBA sales, yet sales of Switch Pokémon bested sales of GBA's version by 8 million and counting) sold an average of 16m (also pointing to the kid/autist core being the bread-and-butter and the 8m extra sales this gen being the Switch-boosted normies who suddenly don't need to shell out JUST to play Pokémon as it's coming to their system now).
We've hit a watershed moment, new Gen pairs are not only able to match Pokémania, with the explosion in gaming interest over the last 15 years and Nintendo's bent of pushing gaming into niches that compliment another system, they will in the future best them as the fanbase gropws over the coming years. Shit, it may even happen by Gen 10.
