Pokemon fans are some of the dumbest people in fandom. They will take bottom tier slop with a smile and get upset when you suggest that maybe the highest grossing franchise in human history should maybe do a little bit better. The reborn lineage of games is the only thing keeping me from abandoning the franchise entirely.
I’m no expert, but; its retaliation. Harm for harm. Hell maybe even a pride thing. They do hurt China to some extent (in a vague capitalistic sense), it’s just worse for America.
Edit: their tariffs might not hurt them as much as ours hurt us, either. They do, what, A third of the planets manufacturing or something? They’ll be far less invested in imports than America is.
I’m willing to guess up to 3m has been sold across all platforms so far, but this is a major AAA game that was being developed for a full decade, there is no way in hell they didn’t spend multiple hundreds of millions on it in total. And those are very low numbers besides. Most big titles sell more than that faster than davg has.
They’ll find anything to turn everything into conservative, anti-woke propaganda. I’m this case, though, it’s because there is a black guy.