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TPC: Pokémon Sword & Shield has sold through 6M copies (2M in Japan alone). It's the fastest selling Nintendo Switch software ever. [SEE STAFF POST]
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I thought all the anger at Dexit, the graphics, the animations, the removal of the GTS etc. would compel more people to skip these games. Turns out that the only effect the last few months have had is that only a negligible number of people didn't buy them. And that lots of devs and content creators got harassed, I guess.
Really though, yall should just sometimes jump into some low viewcount twitch streams of any game.
Pretty much everytime its a lovely group of people that are so nice and welcoming to new viewers.
Its incredibly how much a few kind words can mean to a stranger on the internet.
Pretty much everytime its a lovely group of people that are so nice and welcoming to new viewers.
Its incredibly how much a few kind words can mean to a stranger on the internet.
Well, at the very least, I'm happy that Nintendo is getting a lot of money off of this game. Healthy Nintendo is best Nintendo, and they've been pumping out amazing editions of their main franchises left and right. I'll take the loss of Pokemon never getting that quality "refresh" other Nintendo franchises are getting. I'm not even really into Pokemon anyway.
It has been two Holidays that Game Freak carried the Switch to success (with Smash in 2018).
They deserve a break in 2020, they did a fantastic job and put the Switch in a great position.
They deserve a break in 2020, they did a fantastic job and put the Switch in a great position.
The number of people who even heard about this things is rather limited in comparison. I would assume that a large fraction of these six million people who bought the game in the first days didn't even realize these things were missing/lacking.
Personally I got such a negative view of the game from browsing ResetEra, even to the point that I considered not buying it. I ended up loving it (25 hours in atm). I think it has some flaws for sure, but the metacritic around 80 feels about right to me - and in the end that's a good installment in a very big franchise.
And I would say 20M+ if there isn't a new game next year.
Stadium 3 would be the best answer to dexit. A game where we can battle using ALL of our Pokemon while gamefreak keeps on making games with a limited set of Pokemon.
Yeah this is what may cut short its legs. But 18M would still make it the best selling Pokémon game since GS.
Yup, Switch bump is very real and even Pokémon can't escape it. Next one will be Animal Crossing, 15M+ is coming for that.
I'm actually kind of glad you posted this ridiculous dumb shit because it gave me an opportunity to remember this "budget PS2 title" in particular and post it here.
Looks better than Sword & Shield indeed.
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Pokémon games are evolutions, they need not be revolutions. Nothing wrong with an evolution.
Because Sun and Moon released on a Wednesday in EU I believe the first week numbers for it will be 5 days and not 3. So that added to the extra week of NA makes it highly likely that Sword and Shield will sell faster (and at a 30-50% higher price too).
Thank for your helpful site guiding me about pokemons in each area, but the game drops framerate in battles and areas with more than 3 NPCs or a lot of pokemons on screen, not to mention how poor the draw distance, textures, and shadows are
I think my biggest issue with the game (Not quite done yet, 8th gym down and there's still the final stretch to do) is that it feels unfinished really. Stuff like the online features like the Y-Comm being underbaked, the story and pacing basically going into Fast-Forward.
I'm not surprised by the sales being as high as they are (Switch + Switch Lite + New Generation in general) but I do wonder if the criticisms the game had will be taken into account. I think of Assassin's Creed Unity, which still sold very well (Something like 10 million copies I believe), but did get criticised by critics and had some huge glaring bugs that is was enough that they took a gap year after Syndicate and re-thought how to approach the game plays and we got the much better Assassin's Creed Origins because of it.
Sorta hope Pokemon takes the next year off just so they can polish the game out and finish everything. I've been enjoying the game (New pokemon and UK theming have done that) but The drop in quality in the second half of the story is quite staggering. However would an investor look at strong sales and the good reviews (Lower than the norm for a new generation, but still fairly high scoring.) and tell them to skip next years annual release? I don't see that happening really. Sorta depressing that.
Forgive me if I have no care in the world for the least ambitious games Game Freak has made in the entire series. One of the better aspects of Sword and Shield is that I haven't been bludgeoned over the head with Kanto all game. It's still there somewhat but it isn't like Alola where it felt like no one could shut up about it. Hoping they don't suddenly go overboard with it for whenever the Leon fight is.
I'm not surprised by the sales being as high as they are (Switch + Switch Lite + New Generation in general) but I do wonder if the criticisms the game had will be taken into account. I think of Assassin's Creed Unity, which still sold very well (Something like 10 million copies I believe), but did get criticised by critics and had some huge glaring bugs that is was enough that they took a gap year after Syndicate and re-thought how to approach the game plays and we got the much better Assassin's Creed Origins because of it.
Sorta hope Pokemon takes the next year off just so they can polish the game out and finish everything. I've been enjoying the game (New pokemon and UK theming have done that) but The drop in quality in the second half of the story is quite staggering. However would an investor look at strong sales and the good reviews (Lower than the norm for a new generation, but still fairly high scoring.) and tell them to skip next years annual release? I don't see that happening really. Sorta depressing that.
Forgive me if I have no care in the world for the least ambitious games Game Freak has made in the entire series. One of the better aspects of Sword and Shield is that I haven't been bludgeoned over the head with Kanto all game. It's still there somewhat but it isn't like Alola where it felt like no one could shut up about it. Hoping they don't suddenly go overboard with it for whenever the Leon fight is.
People took stuff way too far attacking the developers personally.
That doesn't mean you handwave away criticism as "some people on a few internet forums."
I haven't bought it and I have issues but I disagree with this stance. If the games sell means that despite the issues people have fun. I don't think people say "this game sucks, it's so boring but I bought it because it's called Pokemon".
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Draw distance I'm not going to argue with but on my Switch I've had no major frame drops in battles or areas and, like I said, Digital Foundry found none either
As long as they get the core stuff right, it'll continue to sell gangbusters. Any criticism is moot because it sells.
When there's ... what seven years? ... since the last new full AC game. Yeah.
Do it like me, play Fallen Order when the kids occupy Pokemon. That happens ... a lot in my case. Guess that's the reason why i'm only at the 2nd gym while my kids are at the 5th and 7th. ^^
I dont mind if they dont innovate but at least dont remove what was already there. Not talking about the full dex, but other features like gts, important moves likes hidden power or super singles/doubles in battle tower or mega evolutions (dynamax dont do much to help weaker pokemon)
But kids don't use those because... mobile phones are a thing...?
Pretty much. Gamefreak is extremely smart.
They've managed to minimize the costs they need to put into a game to maximize profits
Sad to hear but not surprising. If anything gets a pass its Pokemon.
After all they sell us 2 versions of essentially the same game for decades. Imagine if EA would do that.
After all they sell us 2 versions of essentially the same game for decades. Imagine if EA would do that.
They're still using single battles for the vast majority of the story for some reason.
Such a simple evolution that I'm shocked they never did.
They even cut triples.
Even the story formula hasn't changed too much. It's just kid goes on journey to become the best, beats a bunch of gym/trials, becomes champion, and also foils an evil plot involving a legendary Pokemon. I like the gameplay, always have, but damn if I don't want some really basic shit like a hard mode (I CANNOT believe they cut the ability to turn off Exp share, and then gave that horrid excuse), more double battles, and a more interesting story that really breaks their conventions. I don't even care about Dexit lmao.
I've played every game that has released since I played Ruby back in the day, and also silver and yellow, when I borrowed them from a friend. But God, after so long, it's starting to get really stale. I didn't end up buying SwSh, I suppose I am apart of the boycot. And I guess it's just kinda upsetting that with such great sales, such simple improvements will probably never happen.
I should be saying what to myself, exactly? That the premier battle focused spin-off hypothetically speaking, would be adopting the size scaling from handheld games that already had completely bogus reasoning behind it?
Nah, that's the disingenuous bullshit you believe in. =P
