I agree, but Pokemon fans are to Nintendo as CoD/Madden fans are to the other consoles. They’ll always be the top sellers unfortunately. In fact, I was listening to IGN’s Nintendo Voice Chat podcast today and the new CoD: MW that just released, became the top selling game of the year, in just its launch month. I find that sad, when so many other great games get overlooked.
No offense to the players that still enjoy them, but I’m tired of seeing them be the top sellers all the time. There are tons of people that buy a console for just one of those games and then buy nothing else until the next years release.
They’ve put unrealistic pressure on developers to be as big as CoD/Madden, or they risk being shut down for not making a monumentally selling game. Ugh! 😑
I recall the Tomb Raider reboot series being somewhat in trouble after the first game because Square Enix though selling 5 million copies wasn’t good enough. 🤦♂️ It’s one of my favorite franchises, but luckily they stuck with it.