Why do you think pokemon died out?

[DarthSenorQueso]

MyAbe hopefully yes definetly

 

[emolicious]

i think it was becuz pokemon never stops and people just get bored of trying to catch em all

 

[Trainer Trance]

Why do you think pokemon died out? I think it was because when schools started banning cards, people stopped collecting them and thus the craze died out. Share your views :)

Wow the views some people have XD

I honestly think that it is because of the schools banning the cards. I rekon that the craze was such a success because of the cards and being able to trade in school so when they eventually got banned thats why it sorta faded.

I am pretty sure that if today pokemon cards were aloud in school the craze would still be going on now. sigh.... the good old days eh><

You like... hardcore stated the exact same thing twice, and I'm pretty sure that contributed nothing to Pokemon's popularity dimming.

I honestly think Pokemon died out a little bit PUBLICLY because the toy companies and Nintendo stopped pushing so hard. Toy sales went down, and a lot of stores simply stopped carrying the TCG. Ruby and Sapphire were a big letdown to most American fans who were expecting more, because the new designs were mediocre at best, except for a handful of the Pokemon.

I honestly saw a rise in fanbase again as FR/LG came out, mainly because old fans picked up the games as nostalgia.

D/P hardcore revived the series, but the main reason for that was because they just used Gold and Silver's features, saying that they were new and innovative, but really they were just gone for so long, then recycled back into the game, that people were wowed by it.

Jakk's Pacific's new toyline corresponding with the newer series of the games and anime have a bit more to do with it, because they're trying to bring it back in the toy sense by remaking the older mini figs (even though the toys aren't the classic Tomy figures like we had before, the newer, larger figures are more Anime oriented and look really well done). I'm still really upset about the Pokedex toys though, because even though they added voice, we're lucky to even be able to know what's going on due to the giant pixels that they've always used.

Come on, it was done with Pocket Pikachu, make a Pokedex with smaller, colored LCDs.

In conclusion, the franchise never really died, it just got sick and started to wither for a bit. Nothing was happening anime-wise, and still isn't, it's just a different region. Even then... Doesn't even seem like a new region...

Games, crapped out on us in the third generation, then caught back up to us in the fourth.

Cards... were never that cool to me, ^.^;

Toys, getting better, but the electronic 6" figures could really use a design where the speaker goes in the back (poor effin mewtwo has holes in his stomach/chest, and if it weren't for that, I would've bought it)

 

[Me2UJus4Free]

Pokemon hasn't "died out". If it did, we wouldn't be talking about how it died out on a Pokemon forum. It's still a part of pop culture and it's not going anywhere anythime soon.

 

[DarthSenorQueso]

Thank you for agring I deem this topic unworthy...