>>51438361I mean, new horizons is the worst animal crossing but it was launched during the pandemic
while people that had only played one when they were kids, suddenly had time to play, people who played all the previous ones were expecting for too long and wii U users were also hyped because the teasing with the plaza
XY had a good advertising campaign and also was the first in 3d
Alola attracted a lot of genwunners and new kids to pokemon again
And the rest of games are FF and Mosnter Hunter... no need for an explanation, people in Japan LITERALLY put their works aside a few days for those games and I'm not even joking