stackyFACTSIt’s hard to imagine willingly pulling the plug on a multi-billion dollar money printer.
It’s hard to imagine willingly pulling the plug on a multi-billion dollar money printer. Tsunekazu Ishihara, the president of The Pokémon Company, stated that they worked on the second generation of games with the absolute mindset that it would be the grand finale. They poured everything into Johto, fully expecting kids to just move on to a new fad. Instead, humanity decided it wanted to catch imaginary animals forever.
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