Yeah, what an idiotic comparison. The one thing is a game franchise, specifically designed to get you hooked on it and “collect them all” which obviously means you need to know what you are collecting. Plus the name yelling thing.
The other thing is… life. How many average 8-year olds are travelling the world to see all animals? They certainly don’t have unrestricted access to the internet (hopefully) to lookup animals. There’s no reward for knowing that.
They’re probably counting the common zoo species as the comparison, not every animal. And kids do go to zoos a lot at that age. I do not think they needed to be world travelers to have seen most of these
Yeah, what an idiotic comparison. The one thing is a game franchise, specifically designed to get you hooked on it and “collect them all” which obviously means you need to know what you are collecting. Plus the name yelling thing.
The other thing is… life. How many average 8-year olds are travelling the world to see all animals? They certainly don’t have unrestricted access to the internet (hopefully) to lookup animals. There’s no reward for knowing that.
Just a shitty comparialson.
Also, early 00’s was, what, generation 2? 251 pokemon. Depending on what would be considered “common” for wildlife, that number could much greater.
They’re probably counting the common zoo species as the comparison, not every animal. And kids do go to zoos a lot at that age. I do not think they needed to be world travelers to have seen most of these
And I’m sure the goal would be to attack videogames, not to better educate children.