>>54954426>How much truth is there to the claim that Gen 2 was responsible for killing Pokemania?Almost complete truth.
Yellow began cashgrab games. Probably soured some people.
Otherwise, Johto dropped, and over 10 million people said, "Nah, not buying that". It was so bad that 7 million people refused to buy the sequel.
If Hoenn had been as shit as Johto, the sales would have dipped again after that by about the same margin. Instead, they restored consumer confidence and completely stemmed the bleeding fanbase, with subsequent games trending at ~15,000,000 and up
