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>>57176406. Pokémon Go not only made the franchise popular with normies again (even if it has always been “popular” - even without Pokémania, all entries have consistently sold millions of copies), but it also taught TPC that it could release shitty mobile “games” and make shitloads of money from them. Gen 6 was the last time we really had “true” spin-off titles; from Gen 7 onwards, it was all mostly just mobile shit.