>>56582680>Snowball effect of already having a playerbase/likely having a friend that's playing it too, brand recognition, etc.While that's true ultimately that's a result of the quality of the games and what they offer. I mean, even if you want to argue quantity/quality pokemon SV still has 400+ pokemon without the DLC. Compare that to something like SMT VV, an expanded rerelease, which only has 270 or so including the old dlc monsters they bundled in with the rerelease and the new demons they added for Vengeance as much as I like SMT that's kind of inexcusable to me given they had more models ready to go between Dx2 and Persona that they could have just reused.
as is the removal of evolutionNot to mention everything else, when you finish the main game pokemon has a lot of minigames, sidequests and collectables. SMT basically just has the side quests and restarting to get a new ending, they didn't even add challenge battles which persona 5 had before it which is surprising but I digress
The point is that Pokemon, even in this dishevelled state, still offers more as monster tamer compared to anything else on the market. Especially against Palworld, I don't even think it's fair to compare them which is why I used SMT VV instead since that's a longer running series.
Anyway, I reckon it's because most people saying pokemon is worse have only ever played played pokemon so they only have the older games to compare it to.
