Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "we put on our thinking caps and came up with a set of predictions for what Nintendo and The Pokémon Company might have in store for us on January 9th."
Every Thursday we share the weekly Famitsu sales charts, which tracks physical boxed game sales and hardware sales in Japan. This week’s chart covers October 2 – 8, as Detective Pikachu Returns takes the top spot on this Famitsu chart packed with new entries.
Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
Switch OLED Model – 100,019 (5,798,181)
PlayStation 5 – 31,995 (3,901,786)
Switch – 5,137 (19,566,247)
Switch Lite – 5,085 (5,517,733)
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 1,759 (586,897)
PlayStation 4 – 1,020 (7,898,896)
Xbox Series X – 571 (223,801)
Xbox Series (4,409)
Xbox Series S – 424 (289,261)
New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 21 (1,192,423
Despite being a lifelong fans, some are exhausted by the frequency and quality of modern Pokemon games
same
sword and violet just made me tired of the current format.
they rly traded a cohesive story and Lore for open region.
As much as a fan of Pokemon I never was one to buy every new gen or spin off or remake. I bought Red & Blue. Played Ruby for a few gyms on PC. Played a bit of Fire Red again on PC but didn't buy a new entry until Black. After that I bought X and Moon. Then Let's Go Evee and Sword. Lastly I bought Violet. So it's hard for me to burned out on Pokemon.
Same here, simply grew up and lost interest, but the nostalgia filter still hits for things like the old pokemon crystal.
It was Gen 2 for me, I just can't keep up with all the new generations of Pokemon they add in, I'm keen to jump into Violet/Scarlett though to see what's new.
I always enjoyed these game until the newest ones. The open world is sooooo bland. I missed walking into some random house and getting a cool trade opportunity. Hell, I miss jut walking into buildings. There are not a lot of interior spaces in violet. And a motorcycle is not a pokemon. I don't care how mythic or whatever it is.
Despite their flaws, Pokemon Scarlet & Violet have been so popular that sales have already surpassed Sword & Shield.
Because it’s an actual good game, gameplay wise. If we could get these mechanics on an actual updated Nintendo machine then it would’ve done even better.
Not really
It’s buggy, shallow compared to what we could have had in a logical generation jump and just doesn’t seem to hit what this franchise could do if it was made by a competent developer
It sold on the name because suckers eat that shit up
Didn't take me long to realize that if you strip the open world it's pretty short. I will say that they definitely had better ideas this time around, but this is what we should've gotten at the start of the gen. If they were instead given the chance to skip a yearly release or two and work off what they made here they'd have something really good. Hopefully that Feb update fixes the performance issues so I can finish it.
i agree.
the game is rly bland and i had so many bugs it was crazy, like how does that even happen with a franchise like this ha.
I love pokemon, but the games are starting to feel like they were made by an indie team in 1 year with no money and no QA
For being the most financially successful franchise ever, you'd think they could spend time and resources making an extremely polished experience.
