Mario, Zelda, and Donkey Kong creator Shigeru Miyamoto has shared a story about the creation of the Pokemon franchise, and why most new entries tend to be split into two games.
Few series have the overwhelmingly strong sales numbers of Pokemon – the games are consistently best-sellers on their given platforms, with every Game Boy having its respective Pokemon game as its overall best-seller and every main series game cracking the top 10 of their console's sales. And according to the Wikipedia list of best-selling franchises it's only beaten by Mario, Tetris, and Call of Duty in terms of sales.
