The Switch is the most successful platform for the Main Pokemon Series with over 96m units shipped so far. Surpassing the GB and GBA total of 75.81m units.
The Switch is the most successful platform for the Main Pokemon Series with over 96m units shipped so far.
Surpassing the GB and GBA total of 75.81m units.
And that's with another Switch entry to launch in 2025. https://t.co/UbNtLncL51 pic.twitter.com/ElqCoNvIMN— Pierre485 (@pierre485_) May 15, 2024
by Turbostrider27
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Emerald still better than any of the Switch mainline games tho
This proofs Pokémon fans can get slapped and kicked and still buying games…
The switch Pokémon games have also been the best in the franchise. This sub is bizarrely toxic in regards to them.
It’s becoming apparent that Switch is GOAT…
Guess the boycotts failed
Game Boy and GBC*, not GBA like the title suggests.
Eh, I’m just gonna wait 10 more years so that I can make a post “You know what, Sword and Shield was actually pretty good” and it’s gonna be such a cold take by that time.
Switch has 9 mainline Pokémon titles across 5 different actual games (Let’s Go, Sword/Shield, BDSP, Legends, SV), and is just an incredibly well-selling console, so it’s not all that surprising
Now just imagine if they ported older stuff to the Switch eshop! Wonder how many more units they’d sell then……
Scarlet and violet are pretty good games they’re just pathetic on a technical level. Legends arceus was also pretty good. But god, they need to up their standards, and I don’t think they will since the rushed half assed games are still so successful
unpopular option but SV and LA are easily the best pokémon games yes SV does have lots of graphic and frame rate issues and bugs but the actual game is so fun and the concept of the first open world pokémon game is so fun.
SV literally has all the things fans have wanting for decades. Pokémon in the wild, can easily and quickly battle pokémon in the overworld and even send your pokémon to fight while you walk, can choose any order to do gyms and what order to do the story ie you can focus on other things other than the gym first and just open world feels good.
But the bugs are apparent so people ignore all of these good things 🙁
Too bad. The Pokemon games on Switch are fucking awful.
I get shit on all the time for saying it, but Scarlet and Violet are pretty much peak modern Pokemon games *IF YOU IGNORE THE TECHNICAL JANK*.
I was never that impressed with Let’s Go and Sword and Shield were just fine at the absolute best of times.
But Scarlet and Violet, man? The open world, the story, new and old Pokemon selection, QoL improvements, characters, etc were tops. If they had something like the Battle Frontier and didn’t basically require you to have DLC I could honestly rate them 9/10 even with the technical messiness.
But modern Pokemon just isn’t that great, is it? Scarlet and Violet are like the absolute best of a bad situation.
Now imagine if most of them were good
Honestly the franchise has very little improvement ever since the x and y 3ds lunch. Not sure about the technicalities but why cant nintendo just develop it themselves instead of gamefreak.
I find this ironic since GameFreak and the Pokémon Company were predicting doom and gloom for the Switch.
How much of this success was due to the console itself and not the franchise? For a lot of people I know SwSh was the first Pokémon game they played since generation 2.
I’m still mad about the Pokédex.
Now we have to have a Pokémon stadium 3 just to have a place where we can fight with ALL of our favorite Pokémon.
Switch has sold like crazy, so it isn’t surprising that most of the main franchises sold the best on it. I am unsure which ones haven’t sold better on the Switch compared to other games in the series, out of the ones that have released for it.
I bought violet and never even played it once. I really need to stop buying pokemon games
Just imagine if they would’ve made a good Pokémon game on it
Legends of Arceus was the only good game 😅
Can we please get older Pokémon games on the Nintendo Switch Game Boy app?
This saddens me. We should not be rewarding mediocrity. Sheer sales numbers of the system made this inevitable though.
Very interesting stats.
Now imagine if the games were good.
I stopped buying Pokemon games after Legends Arceus ( I only bought it because it seemed unique). I just realized that I haven’t liked a Pokemon game since Black/White 2.
they need to step up the quality next main line game.
“Mediocre ice cream selling incredibly well during record hot summer.”
Basically the same headline.
Everyone loves ~~Pokémon~~ ice cream, and Nintendo has had an amazing “hot summer” with the unprecedented lifespan of the Switch console. Doesn’t change the fact that the quality of the product is mediocre and not living up to its potential.
I hope they make more like Brilliant Diamond in the future. I don’t really like the new real player game style.
That’s really really sad cause the pokémon games on Switch SUCKS
Sad considering the low quality of the games.
GameFreak apologia is ruining the community and splitting the fanbase apart. Being unable to speak critically about a piece of paid software without backlash makes being a fan feel more like being in a cult. GF is a business, not a messiah, and they answer to investors like everyone else. If you are offended by people pointing out flaws in a piece of software, or if you disparage people for comparing that piece of software to other similar software in the same price range, you are part of the problem. GameFreak doesn’t know you and they’re not going to reward you for protecting their reputation.
Now imagine if the games weren’t half assed
And that’s how you know “success” and “quality” are not always strongly related. Lol
Switch Pokemon games are janky and ass though. Shame they barely care about their most profitable franchise.
Not surprising, both pokémon and the switch itself are easily accessible. I hadn’t enjoyed pokémon since platinum until sword/shield came out, and most of my buddies felt the same way
The older the gaming industry gets, the more interested I am in seeing these numbers paired with penetration of the total gaming market per title as well.
The gaming market has been growing for decades so growing sales numbers are a baseline anyway. Market reach is where you can tell if a series is growing or shrinking in relevance.
I’ve never played a single minute of a Pokémon game. Not even the card game.
What’s a good Switch game for me to dig into if I want to see what all the hype is about?
The Switch was also the first current gen Nintendo console I got with the expectation that I’d be able to play Pokemon at launch for the first time ever. I had purchased GBAs and DSes as retro consoles a few years earlier.
I was so unimpressed I ended up buying no Pokemon games.
It’s almost like everyone has a Switch and everyone loves Pokemon no matter how bad they are.
I mean there’s literally 2 billion more people in the world than 20 years ago.
Now put the GBA/DS games on the Switch
Sucks that the games for it are shit
Which sucks for upcoming games because the older games actually had quality instead of whatever they’re doing now
Okay TPC now port the old games up. Its free money for them
This is sad. I went straight to AL because it was frequently recommended as the best Switch game I played it for 2 hours and never touched it again.
Just felt like a fan made mod. I remember playing FFX and thinking “Wow, I can’t wait for Pokemon games to reach this level of graphics and scope!” … 25 years later, and it still hasn’t.
great.. the worst games sell the most… i cant wait to see how the next game shapes up to be -___-
Maybe except for Legends Arceus, which was a breath of fresh air, and Let’s Go games, which were just well-made remakes, these games are a joke, technically of course.
Game Freak: Why change? When we can milk all of these fanbois..lol