>>57998901
Bitch, we know EXACTLY how fucking popular the thing is with kids, because adults didn't buy the GBA in any sort of large number and the DS, while popular as all fuck with the general public, Pokémon again seemed to only hit a certain number of players (indeed the average of both new Gen games on the system equalled roughly Gen 3's performance in totality). Thje 3DS was another adult-repellant system, leading Pokémon to once again enshrine itself as the premier kid-popular game series on the system (we all know the same people you're bitching about buying merch and cards are the same who buy mario kart and new SMB2). And once again averaged out to th same totals roughly as Gen 3 and Gen 4/5''s average. Series saw a 10m bump from the potato handheld days, true. But the presence of the Switch Lite and the performance of LGPE prior to SS indicate few kids were getting the systems prior to Gen 8's lauch just after the Lite model released. Series is still popular as fuck with children, you're just in an internet bubble (due to also being a manchild fuck interested in collectorfagging cards for future "profit").