How do we fix Pokemon?

>>26279912

>purposely using an outdated chart to stir up controversy

XY is at over 15 million and ORAS is at over 11 million

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>>26280344

What's there to fix? Pokemon sells extremely well for a 20 year old franchise.

The games will never reach pokemania levels again

>>26279912

This Chart is Wrong

Fire Red and Leaf Green are remakes of Gen1, not remakes of Gen 3

Time Travel

>>26280561
Fuck you

>>26280549
this T B H F A M

>>26280549
>The games will never reach pokemania levels again
but why

>>26280572

>>26280572
What's wrong? Cant' Handle the truth?

>>26279912
No need to fix what isn't broken

>>26280590
Because the concept is old and busted.

>>26280590
because such is the nature of fads nigger

>>26280590
Pokemania had very little to do with the quality of the games themselves. Nothing that popular ever does. It was a fad. A huge fucking fad yes, but still a fad. Pokemon happened to come out at the right time with the right gameplay and mechanics to ignite something in the consumer base. Now that it's established, it'll probably never reach that level again simply for the sheer weight of its history. It exists as a thing now in the cultural memory, and it will always have that baggage even if they were to entirely reinvent it.

That it's still as popular and sells as well as it does it almost mind boggling. How many games, how many series, get to have both absurd popularity at its release and staying power?