>>53635195That's like asking this place what pokémon do they want to add into the dex. Smashnigs are older than Pokémon's audience anon. It's irrelevant what THEY care about at that stage in their lives, when Pokémon's polls usually tend to be different entirely (smashfags wanting decidueye, geno and whatever other retarded shit, much less not understanding Pokémon, as a Nintendo IP was ALWAYS going to get a new rep each new game, to shill the latest series of Pokemon games at smash autists).
That's your fucking problem, you STILL can't accept you're a nothing to the brand, that kids and their opinions are what matters. that's why we get shit like picrel, while /vp/ cried like bitches they didn't make their high school fursona the shillmon of Gen 7. Unless you can prove the kids of yesteryear actually gave more of a fuck for bulbasaur, I see no reason to disbelieve it was public opinion that drove it initially. Because Nintendo weren't spending a cent on Pokémon after 1994 (that's why Creatures has a co-credit on the games since inception, Tajiri borrowed funds to finish development off them, leading to the co-credit ) and beyond publishing the games for GF, they only started spending money on the IP again, when people wrote in asking where could they buy pokémon toys and plushies. Which is about the time the anime started, which proceeded as so, because Shudo was reacting to the reception data he was being given.
