>>58445038The only reason pokemon was underperforming was that stupid idea that adults don want children's shit.
That weird period in the early 2000s where most kids were to busy forcing themselves to watch MTV and be cool. Once normie consensus changed and it became socially acceptable to be a manchild all these people who, now, could spend their own money on pokemon started to do so.
If Masuda were still in charge we'd have better and more cohesive Pokemon games and universe.
Pokemon is like COD, Fifa and shit like that.
A bunch of parents and grandparents just default buy whatever is labeled pokemon for their kids. We who care about pokemon are such a minority so for most people the condition is pokemon being available in a console they HAVE.