Is the Pokèmon craze dead

What killed it?

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Gen 5

Same thing that kills everything, brainless consoomerism

Zoomers only care about TikTok.

Trying to appeal to toddlers instead of children.

time

the dex cut

Johto filler hell and the general lack of capitalizing on gen 2 after G/S were released. There was a rising fever pitch hyping up the mysterious new "Neo" Pokemon during late Kanto and Orange Islands, and then the momentum just kind of stopped right as it was at its peak. Pokemon like Togetic, Tyranitar and Umbreon were huge among fans, but marketing kept sticking to stuff like Pikachu, Charizard and Togepi that were old hat.

It started to take longer and longer to catch pikachu. In RB you could catch one before the first gym (in Y you start with one), in GSC you had to be lucky enough to hatch a pichu from the odd egg, in RSE you had to wait until the safari zone, and so on. Each generation, the player went a longer minimum time without pikachu.

>new games continue to smash sales records while more and more spinoffs come out and stores have an entire half an aisle of the toy section for pokemon shit
>"is pokemon dead?????"
maybe it doesn't have the same zeitgeist feel it had in the late 90s to early 00s but it's still wildly and comfortably popular, if anything it had its lull in popularity around gens 4-6 and then picked back up

Tracy.

>johto filler killed pokemon
G/S/C was the #2 most sold pokemon game of all time only beaten by Red/Green/Blue/Yellow

Least sold is nigger2 and cracker2 because they are the most soulless digimoneqsue shit games in the series.

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>fighting with kids
don't take the bait user

>G/S/C was the #2 most sold pokemon game of all time only beaten by Red/Green/Blue/Yellow
And? That has nothing at all to do with the fucking filler.

Yes. Gold and Silver were the peak of the franchise, and pretty much every kid had them, with people eagerly discussing them online and making neat fan content like homepages, flash games and videos. Then they all got more and more irked as the anime and merchandise was a barren dripfeed that didn't reflect the cool stuff in the games at all.

I'm pretty sure pokemon, as a brand, is stronger than it's been in a long time. Low during gen5, low again in the time from LGPE-BDSP. But it got huge again with the pokemon card hype, leading into Legends Arceus, and then the announcement of Gen9 has been extremely well received and public approval seems pretty high. Of course, anything can happen, tho...

The infamous Johto level curve killed a lot of the fan's desire to play the games.

Nice buzzword you got there
"Filler"
"Level Curve"
etc etc

Gen 5 killed Pokemon and it never recovered. It was way too ugly

They weren’t insulting the Gen 2 Games, they were saying that TPC didn’t take advantage of GSC’s popularity. They dragged their asses even getting to the Johto arc and when they finally got to it, Gen 1 Pokemon still hogged most of the spotlight. Not only that but the Johto arc was overloaded with cutesy shit and filler that bored the fuck out of everyone (despite the fact that Johto gym battles and other important battles were actually really good, they were drowned out by the filler. )
Also nearly all the merch focused on Gen1 mons while Gen2 mons barely got anything, (The one exception was the TCG, which actually gave the Gen2 pokemon their fair due with the starter getting some damn good cards) there was also some new cool mechanics like dark and steel energy, but outside of the TCG, the focus was almost entirely in Gen 1 Pokemon.

The worst part Is by the time TPC grew enough brain cells to realize that NEW Pokémon deserve to be marketed, it was time for Gen 3 so Hoeen and every other Generation after got their fair share of attention, and while Johto still gets fucked over and ignored even to this day. And becaue Johto gets so overlooked it’s easy for pieces of shit like to try and gaslight new fans into thinking then Gen2 games were bad

Least sold lol the least sold is
Platinum
Emerald
And Crystal
Hahaha

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>Fighting against 3rd Versions
>Besides being a direct sequel
wew

Continue
And
Red,green,blue, yellow

"Digimon" what the fuck is Digimon?lol

Don't make excuses it's still the same
Emerald is the least
Half of that game it's just ocean that you swimming and you just battle trainers and theirs nothing else happen hahaha it's kinda lame