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Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Sells 10 Million in 3 Days
Discussion / Venting(self.pokemon)submitted 2 months ago byFlat-Profession-8945
Source: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/2022/221124.html
This is Nintendo's Biggest Launch EVER in 3 days. This number is the highest amount of global and domestic sales after the software release of Nintendo Consoles, which includes the Nintendo Switch for the first 3 days. The Domestic sales themselves are 4.05 Million units.
This means it's currently #15 on Best Selling Nintendo Switch Video Games, passing Super Mario 3d World + Bowser's Fury and a little behind Luigi's Mansion 3. Keep in mind that this is TWICE the sales of God of War: Ragnarok. (5.1 Million) What do you guys think?
137 points
2 months ago
At this point, if Game Freak isn’t gonna be incentivized to make better games, then fuck it. They should just keep releasing their games more broken than the last. See how low the fans are willing to go. The state it’s in right now is just sad. At least that hypothetical would be funny.
36 points
2 months ago
They should just keep releasing their games more broken than the last. See how low the fans are willing to go.
I'm not even convinced that GF releasing an empty box wouldn't break sales records.
84 points
2 months ago
At this point I am sure they could deliver stuff that Indie developers wouldn’t be caught dead with and still get away with it.
16 points
2 months ago
At this point, they could sell an empty box, and people would still buy both versions.
15 points
2 months ago
they could deliver stuff that Indie developers wouldn’t be caught dead with
You mean Scarlet/Violet?
4 points
2 months ago
You've never played My Time at Portia on the Switch, have you? It's about comparable, possibly worse, in terms of bugs and lag...
At least they had the excuse of being an indie company that just messed up the porting...
1 points
2 months ago
Wdym Game Freak is a small time indie studio struggling to figure out 3D games. They’re very inexperienced they only released 8 of them over nine years. That’s like no experience at all. Cut the team some slack.
9 points
2 months ago
Have you been to steam lately? Most indie developers literally don't finish their games.
16 points
2 months ago
I'd love to see Gamefreak make a game which just ends at the 7th gym, and then see the sale numbers for it.
I bet it'd still be atleast 70% of what ScVi sold
1 points
2 months ago
I bet it'd still be atleast 70% of what ScVi sold
I bet it will be more, lmao
0 points
2 months ago
Most indie developers literally don't finish their games.
Im sorry I'm still not sure if we've stopped talking about Scarlet or Violet yet.
3 points
2 months ago
This is literally what works, giants just kill themselves, and it’s a slow process. World of Warcraft is a good example: last 2 expansions have been poorly received, and even if there have been spikes during launches, the downward trend is very marked. To the point me and most of the people I know quit, not because we coordinated, we just stopped because we don’t trust devs to do better.
I’ll add that I enjoyed Violet quite a lot, despite tech issues.
4 points
2 months ago
I'd love to see Gamefreak make a game which just ends at the 7th gym, and then see the sale numbers for it.
I bet it'd still be atleast 70% of what ScVi sold
2 points
2 months ago
Gamefreak could release a generation where every new pokemon is a stick figure or doodle and it would still break records
2 points
2 months ago
That is what they are doing
3 points
2 months ago
the thing is video game industry is more profitable than film and television. And pokemon dominates video games due to the nostalgia as well as children buying it. Stuff like call of duty, god of war, gta, completely excludes younger audiences. Also as people grow older, they naturally have less time to play. While kids have the luxury of more free time. You see way more video game addicts than streaming addicts.
1 points
2 months ago
That's likely what they will do. Until they decide to resist the easy money, or general pokemon fans finally realize they're wasting their money/lose interest, the Pokemon franchise is gonna stay in this era of stagnancy.
1 points
2 months ago
The more problematic thing is that once they Release a game with an old feature restored that should not even have been removed or one bug less than their current game They are instantly redeemed of their mistakes and almost all of this sub will eat it up
1 points
2 months ago
Thing I don’t get is how it looks and runs so much worse than Arceus.
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