Technically, Rise of the Guardians got... what, $103,412,758 in the box office, not to mention more than double its $145 million budget? Yet Jeffrey Katzenberg STILL decried it as a box office bomb. Making a cent also means it made money. Doesn't mean that it was a success. And if I were an executive, if Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon failed to top Sun and Moon in sales, I'd denounce it as a failure, period, REGARDLESS of whether it made any money.
And as far as NCIS and Blue Bloods, you may not like those shows, but what cannot be denied is that they got very high ratings, about 13 million viewers on average just with Season 15, and they've remained stable since Season 1, and even Blue Bloods, while not quite to NCIS's levels by Season 8, nonetheles is within the 10 million viewers mark. And bear in mind, both seasons are well within the age of internet viewership, so the fact that they get such high ratings shows just HOW popular those shows are. Contrast that with Pokemon's ratings, and how they at BEST get 3 million viewers, far below Kanto's viewers or even AG or DP's viewerships, heck, even XY's. In fact, if I were a suit, and I saw Pokemon getting those low ratings, I'd pull the plug, and they'd pray I'd even be willing to wait until the actual arc is over. And believe me, I've seen PLENTY of shows get cancelled due to very bad ratings, some even being in Japan as I've pointed out (Bleach is a particularly notable example of a Japanese show that actually got cancelled, quite prematurely I might add, specifically due to very bad ratings), and I've seen shows get cancelled for bad ratings that were even higher than Pokémon's current ratings (ie, Heroes, probably also West Wing).