Most Tamagotchis and Furbys had a short lifespan. https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy8axx/the-tamagotchi-cemetery https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy8axx/the-tam

Most Tamagotchis and Furbys had a short lifespan. https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy8axx/the-tamagotchi-cemetery https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy8axx/the-tamagotchi-cemete... The likelihood is that industrialization will turn these toys into things that have short lifespans and are commonly replaced with new models, like phones. Children also have notoriously short attention spans. I think biological pets are more for the sanity of the parents than the children.