What are the implications of Scarlet and Violet breaking records for sales of a Switch game in Japan?

What are the implications of Scarlet and Violet breaking records for sales of a Switch game in Japan? What does this mean for the series going forward?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    nothing changes

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Very likely
    >What does this mean for the series going forward?
    Nothing, it will still be shit like it always was

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Shittier, even.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No national dex

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It means no amount of review bombing is going to get people to give a shit. Something everyone in the world except YOU morons already knows.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >lowest paid pokemon international company astroturfer

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Capping this when we get a patch 😉

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        you think that for the first time in history gamefreak is going to fix a game's problems because people whined about it online? that'd be nice but it seems way too naive.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          PLA only exists because of b***hing about SwSh anon
          Not everything has to be as big as restoring the national dex

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            You are a simple fricker with hilariously bad hot takes. SS's Wild Areas (and DLC) pointed to Gen 9 being Open World (mainly because they start the next new Gen about 6 monnths before releasing their current Gen, so Gen 10 started planning in about June). That they spent time putting it in meant they wanted to get experience pissing about with it before going full-bore on a full title release, with Legends being greenlit to act ass a test for larger again open areas to SS's Wild Areas.
            Signs were there since they first showed off the WA. Sorry dexit broke you so you couldn't actually look at what you were being given and extrapolate the future from it. Stop listening to the echo chamber.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >PLA only exists because of b***hing about SwSh
            that game was announced and had been in development long before swsh released.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Don't be disingenuous, they HAVE patched their games, when the bugs were game-breaking (Luminose city glitch and I think on the Aola games also had a save frick-up somewhere).
          None of the shit you incels have been crying over for the last 3 days ARE game-breaking however, so no need for a patch.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >None of the shit you incels have been crying over for the last 3 days ARE game-breaking however, so no need for a patch.
            Yeah but I really hate the frame drops, slows the game down way too much. The graphical glitches are distracting.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >preorders should be effected by post release reviews
      Idiot

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >People spend 8 months boycotting and shitting on Sw/Sh everywhere.
        >25 million sales at the end of its life.
        moron.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    as long as we aren't going back to tiny hallway routes and arbitrary roadblocks I'm fine with anything

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It means dexgays will remain seething for the rest of time

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I am a dexgay and Scarlet/Violet are the best games aside from PLA since ORAS

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Gamefreak will just Half ass it as usual. There's no incentive to put into their passion in a game they've been burnt out on for years of developing especially to meet with deadlines that coincide with the merch and anime.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You do understand the people deving it DO have passion for it, yeah?
      They just don't have the "passion" to cater to autistic manchildren while doing so. They love seeing kids discover the shit they do in-game.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >They love seeing kids discover the shit they do in-game.
        >Implying that most people playing aren't nostalgic millennia that got pulled back into the series through Pokemon go after skipping every Gen after Gen 2.
        Also, the bugs and glitches in this game is not a good first impression to leave for a kid. If they did care, they should have delayed it and called for assistance in one of Nintendo's other development teams.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >and anime
      Reminded me that we still haven't gotten SV anime announcement
      Oops

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's based, because Scarlet & violet are based, and this means future instalments of the series will be more like them.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Open world games like this need time, BOTW spent like 5 years in the oven and even if you ignore the massive undertaking of the physics engine they still changed shit months before release like the way you use runes just to make it more intuitive on the switch
      If we don't get that kind of commitment, which I seriously doubt, they'll still be half baked

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >they'll still be half baked
        And?
        Millions of fans don't care and will still love them.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          if they took their time to make the next Gen, like genuinely a few years minimum, it would be the best-selling pokemon game in several years. and I confidently say that because the masses would be extremely hyped for a new pokemon game coming out—since in this hypothetical, there hasn’t been one in years—and they would create the hype by showcasing some of the stuff they’re working on in trailers.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      cope harder, the final evo of water duck is a troony. should’ve chosen fire

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    unironically the only bad thing in SV was technical stuff, i.e. bugs. it's not shit like swooshie

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I've seen far too many people on this board the past week somehow claiming Swoosh is better.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        yes I too have seen people trolling on Ganker at some point in my life

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        it is better in that it sticks to pokemon conventions more

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Nothing will happen
    This franchise will get even worse and worse
    Nostalgia pandering will be even bigger and greater
    And (you) will still buy it anyways

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    More Globohomosexual wokeshit.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The games don’t have any wokeshit other than genderless hairstyles though.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Half the characters look androgyne or troony.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          No they don't, you're simply obsessed.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Cute gaslight, still a troony game

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It gives GameFreak the balls to make the next gen early access. They released a glorified, unpolished tech demo and morons are still gonna eat it up and screech at anyone that wants better.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It'll keep getting worse until they lose money.
    GF is testing to see how much shit they can get away with, and the answer seems to be an infinite amount of shit.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    a decay into, if it's even possible, continually worse games

    time to jump ship and let the normies have pokemon. let's go make our own pokemon, with blackjack, and hookers. you know what? forget the pokemon. and the blackjack

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    even less effort in gen 10

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Most of those sales were either preorders or day 1 sales, the people that bought it knew nothing about the flaws.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    SV broke sales records because people liked the previous games (PLA, SwSh etc) and so they expected to like SV. Sales is not indicative of how people will perceive the game in the future.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    well the cycle continuous so whatever. nothing new. next game will be worse. normies are saying this is the best pokemon game of all time so nothing will change lmao. only perf sucks for them. this franchise is so done but at least its kinda funny sometimes to see wtf is going on.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >normies are saying this is the best pokemon game of all time
      are they even saying that?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Some diehard apologists are but plenty are mocking the games or complaining on Pokemon's social media accounts. None of it will matter unless sales are noticeably affected so GameFreak will keep halfassing it

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The question is what would happen to the Pokémon brand as a whole? For a franchise like Pokémon the next major release should be the one to look out for regarding sales plus the DLC. If the DLC doesn't sell as much and the next major release doesn't have as many pre-orders is how will we know how bad shit is.

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    more continuous decline

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The implications are that they bought it anyway.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    it means pokemanchildren love eating shit and they will whine if you point that out

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This is the last time this will happen, because all these preorders were made before the game was revealed to be Cyberpoke 2077.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >What are the implications of a game selling well.
    You're kind of a moron, huh?

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm just here to witness how much GF can get away with honestly.
    It's an interesting case study of consumerism and brand loyalty.

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are the biggest game launch of 2022 in the UK

    >• Physical Units 2nd Biggest Pokémon launch of all time (with digital probably #1)
    >• 36% Bigger than Sword / Shield, 70% Bigger than Diamond/ Pearl Remakes, 56% Bigger than Arceus
    but muh scores

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's a bad game
      Muh JRPG last segment doesn't save it

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Nah, it's great.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Ya I'm sure the basic ass plot made you cream yourself but it's got no post game and the legendary pokemon are reskins

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >basic ass plot
            na
            >no post game
            na
            Keep seething tho

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >What are the implications of Scarlet and Violet breaking records for sales of a Switch game in Japan?
    That people who preorder games are moronic, but brand name is too powerful so they'll kee doing it anyway.

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Only good things
    These are the best pokemon games made yet
    they can only get better once they actually run properly

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