>>718450484
Because Americans are ridiculously obsessed with brand and Digimon happened to come second and forever be branded as "the knockoff"

See also Americans keeping Nintendo alive during the N64 catastrophe because they saw PlayStation as the knockoff despite it being superior on every front, and making Apple the most valuable company on the planet despite cheaper and better alternatives existing for all of their offerings

>>713323232
>How does it even matter? They're going to turn into random robot angel squid stuffed animals one or two evos out anyway.

Yeah the idea of a "Starter" Digimon is so dumb outside of Digimon World 3. They're eventually just going to become something that can barely associable to whatever their original form was.