Has the tv show hindered the video games popularity, or helped it?

has the anime helped or hindered the games popularity?

  • Hindered

    Votes: 26 24.3%

  • Helped

    Votes: 50 46.7%

  • don't know

    Votes: 12 11.2%

  • depends(explain)

    Votes: 19 17.8%
  • Total voters
    107
  • Poll closed .
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Well has the tv show helped the games or made it seem like it sucks big-time!? Well in countries like New Zealand, the games are almost non-existent, and the tv show is thought of as a huge tv show thats supposed to be on playhouse disney! you know with ash ketchup and the crew! But back to the point, TV show better or worse for the games? personnaly I watched the tv show first, then pokemon crater, played cousins silver and leafgreen for like 5 mins each. Then pokemon indigo. then last year in may got pokemon platinum(first game!). Soif it wasn't for the anime, I would have never have found out about it. Most kids at school think the man character in the games is ash ketchup.............:disgust:
 
Helped, definitely. It's the reason you still see kids today playing Pokemon. The series may not be terribly good, but you'll have kids watching it, then beg their parents when they find out there's a game too.
 
In my mind it has hindered it.

The show is aimed primarily for kids and is the greatest source of the idea that pokemon is childish and not "cool."

However, anyone who has played the games enough would realize how complex and creative and downright awesome the games are. I mean, sure the games are aimed at a young audience as well, but there are so many hidden and complex factors in the games that it's obvious GF was trying to appeal to an older audience too. Which was smart of them.

But yeah, the anime has it's mature moments, but all in all it is seen as being kiddy and that casts a negative light on the franchise as a whole.
 
The cartoon reinforces the "it's a childrens game" idea.

It should have ended after the first season.
 
In the early days it helped it big time. Without the anime back in the day of Gen I, the games wouldn't have been nearly as successful, Pokemon Yellow is a testament to the effect of the anime's popularity on the games. However with the "Advanced" Generation, I think it began to hinder it. As others have said, the anime has increased the perception of Pokemon as a kiddy franchise. I think in part it's the anime's "fault" we don't get more mature themes in the games. That being said, I'm sure the anime still draws in new fans to buy the games.
 
yeah, it(the bait) helped to lure us (the fish) up to the hook(THE GAMES). But too much bait and the fish wont take the hook. No bait and barely any fish!
 
I'd say that the anime helped boost the video games' popularity. Even though most people say the show is for kids, the games are still rather popular.
 
It helped it big time back in the 90s. The situation's kinda so-so now.
 
When pokémon was just new, it helped it. Kids want what they see on tv.

Nowadays it hinders. Pokémon now has a bad reputation with most people, it being for kids, because of the childishness of the anime (both the old as the newer ones).
 
I think it both helped and hindered it. From a comercial standpoint, the anime helped advertise the games and it's very likely that Pokemon wouldn't have survived this long (while still being this popular. Or even half as popular) without it.

Conversely though, as others have said, the anime is the reason most people think this game is childish and that does give it a bad reputation.
 
What everyone said. On the first generation, the anime certainly was what made it be so ridiculously huge.

However, starting with the second generation it kinda did whatever it wanted with the franchise. The games' main target were those that played the original three years ago, which is why they are a little more mature. The anime missed this point and it didn't attract the fandom the games were aiming at.

In the third generation it definitely hidered them. It was supposed to welcome new players and be a reboot of most of the franchise. The anime gained a very bad popularity and missed its point again trying to cater to those that watched it, when the games wanted new players.

As for the now leaving fourth generation... it was quite strange, as it didn't really change from gen III, but it had been use more to advertise the games and events. Worked better than for Gen II.

In short, the anime made the games be known (without it, they'd be some wacky obscure japanese GB game), but then it did the opposite.
 
Depend.

For the 6-11 age group it has absolutely helped.

For most people older then that it can either hinder or help it.

Fans could either grow out of the anime and game because the show is trash and they realize there are other kinds of games they like more, or still play the games because they are good despite the show.

There are also the older adults who knew kids that were obsessed with Pokemon and were either turned of by the kids obsession, or participated in that obsession and grew to like it.
 
Both.

I believe the show may draw in new fans in the younger demographic but the it probably will backfire later on as the fans mature and see it as "childish". Of course, the anime will probably turn off older "would be" fans because of the "childish" nature of it.
 
More helped than hindered.

I think, especially in the beginning as people have been saying, it definitely helped and really ignited that spark that hasn't gone out, only dimmed. I think as it neared Johto, both began to falter but only to a degree - while Johto and G/S/C were intensely popular, it was growing repetitive even then, which, imo, is why they shook things up by taking away Misty and adding the Contests, something new and different. And then, in that respect, it began to help the games again because it brough back that sense of actually playing as the character you were seeing on the show, ie: May. And this was continued with Dawn being present in both the games and anime.

Although it is primarily aimed at a younger age group, I've found the Diamond and Pearl series to be the most dramatic and mature to a point where I, a 22 year old, have become much more enthralled in the anime than ever before, particularly with the most recent episodes. Right now, for me with D/P/Pl/HG/SS, the games and anime are very much working in tandem and really supporting each other - evident in episodes focusing on Johto Pokémon and concepts when HG/SS came out - the anime promotes elements of the games a lot more with these one-off episodes about the Pokéthlon and by having characters like Lyra and Pokemon like Cyndaquil become suddenly prominant and this all compounded by many of the occurring themes between the anime and the games, particularly the Team Aqua/Magma/Galactic plotlines that followed their game counterparts really closely. Sometimes, it was like playing the anime and watching the game I felt, they really intersected and I found more of a drive for both as a result.

Helped *mwah* and please keep doing so.
 
I think the anime hinders the games for the older portion of the audience, and helps them for the younger portion.
 
Back in the day, it helped it immensely, being shown on primetime and gathering so much interest, the movies being in theatres, etc.

Now a days it's mainly there to compliment fans of the games, as you have to TRY to get up early enough to watch when it comes on nowadays.
 
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