Support NeoGAF

[Draugoth]

 

[Hookshot]

Scarlet/Violet is such a shoddy game and the open world made no sense as you had to progress along the set path to not be overpowered or underpowered.

 

[ReBurn]

That sounds like a lot.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Yokai Watch deserves to sell this much

Not Pokémon

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

 

[Saber]

Not sure why suddenly he group up all pokemon games on Switch? Scarlet Violet didn't actually beat Sword and Shield and even those games were shallow as fuck.
Didn't remember doing that for DS or 3DS.

 

[Codes 208]

Makes sense, youve got the go adaptations (smart of them to make that while pokemon go was at its peak), two full gens, and the goat legends arceus.

And theres also the gen 4 remakes. But we all make mistakes

 

[Robb]

Mainline series only?

In that case it should be well over 100M if you also include Pokken Tournament, Pokemon Snap, Mystery Dungeon, Detective Pikachu, etc.

But the mainline series should blast past 100M as well with the release of Pokemon Legends ZA next year.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Yokai Watch deserves to sell this much

Not Pokémon

So sad, you've not received any reaction to your post which means nobody other than you cares about Yokai Watch in here.

 

[pulicat]

Not sure why suddenly he group up all pokemon games on Switch? Scarlet Violet didn't actually beat Sword and Shield and even those games were shallow as fuck.
Didn't remember doing that for DS or 3DS.

Nintendo grouped that mainline Pokémon games together on Switch to show the increase sales of franchise in this generation.

 

[RoboFu]

I mean you think it's a lot but then mk8 alone is around 60 million. lol

 

[Saber]

Nintendo grouped that mainline Pokémon games together on Switch to show the increase sales of franchise in this generation.

They don't usually do that as pokemon mainline games solds pretty well overtime. They never had to do that on the DS or 3DS, and if they did the numbers would be asurd. Its just like they saying Mario games sold X, they don't need that as stating their singular games sellings speak for themselves.

 

[Woopah]

They don't usually do that as pokemon mainline games solds pretty well overtime. They never had to do that on the DS or 3DS, and if they did the numbers would be asurd. Its just like they saying Mario games sold X, they don't need that as stating their singular games sellings speak for themselves.

For some reason in their latest presentation they had several slides talking about overall franchise sales on Switch (and they did include Mario).

I guess because this is the final Switch-only investor call.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

99 million between 9 games sounded not very good for Pokemon.
So I looked up some sales stats for the series.
Holy shit. With an average of 9.1 million each, the games released in pairs on Switch actually averaged better than most previous gens past Gen 2. And Arceus did around 14 million alone.

Sometimes I wonder what the author of this book thinks about Pokemon sales numbers.

 

[Södy]

Scarlet/Violet is such a shoddy game and the open world made no sense as you had to progress along the set path to not be overpowered or underpowered.

Yeah, a simple level adjustment option (and other options like disable EP share and fight mode) would be so much better.

 

[deriks]

That sounds like a lot.

Because it is

99 million between 9 games sounded not very good for Pokemon.
So I looked up some sales stats for the series.
Holy shit. With an average of 9.1 million each, the games released in pairs on Switch actually averaged better than most previous gens past Gen 2. And Arceus did around 14 million alone.

Sometimes I wonder what the author of this book thinks about Pokemon sales numbers.

Some people understand "fall" as "it died", and sometimes is, sometimes isn't

Pokémon got released and was a fever that everyone was having. It was the new thing and marketing did an excellent job by trowing at every type of thing you can consume, but marketing can do so much before gets boring. Pikachu kinda disappear from food, magazines... even the anime wasn't that much of a deal anymore. This is the fall

...how much of impact this fall caused to the games? Not much. And the fans still buys toys or whatever from the franchise, so they're still doing great overall

 

[Rush2112]

Is 99 million the number of pokemon games on the switch? Or is that mario?

 

[Kacho]

Ridiculous lol

 

[Fake]

Scarlet and Violet are so fucking garbage lol.

 

[justiceiro]

Games have never been worse but sales have never been better. Switch in a nutshell.

 

[E-Cat]

Now imagine what would happen if they made a good Pokemon game

 

[Robb]

Now imagine what would happen if they made a good Pokemon game

 

[GateofD]

is it impressive if you count all the games? who else does this?

it be like oh, mario sold x units on switch and included every mario game

 

[pulicat]

is it impressive if you count all the games? who else does this?

it be like oh, mario sold x units on switch and included every mario game

Not many games can perform similarly like Pokémon games for yearly release.

Pokémon is basically Nintendo's FIFA and COD for its strength to push above 15 million units sold for each entry.

2018 - Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu = 15m
2019 - Pokémon Sword and Shield = 26m
2021 - Pokémon DP Remake = 15m
2022 - Pokémon legend Arceus = 15m
2022 - Pokémon Scarlet and violet = 26m
2025 - Pokémon legend ZA = ??

It's going to settle at ~120 million units with 6 games. A spectacular performance.

 

[pulicat]

Is 99 million the number of pokemon games on the switch? Or is that mario?

5 mainline Pokémon games.

Mario games sales are over 200 million units on Switch.

 

[Saber]

Not many games can perform similarly like Pokémon games for yearly release.

They are counting every pokemon game on the plataform, you are strangelly ignoring that part.
Like me and the other member said, if Nintendo were to do the same for all Mario games on Switch(which would be including Mario Kart as well), I would be willing to say the numbers would put Pokemon to shame.

 

[pulicat]

They are counting every pokemon game on the plataform, you are strangelly ignoring that part.
Like me and the other member said, if Nintendo were to do the same for all Mario games on Switch(which would be including Mario Kart as well), I would be willing to say the numbers would put Pokemon to shame.

That was from latest FY report presentation slides to show the growth and sales on Switch to investors even Mario titles got one.

 

[noob smokes]

Crazy seen as they aint made a decent one since the ds days

 

[Roman Empire]

Yokai Watch deserves to sell this much

Not Pokémon

I spot another Yokai Watch enjoyer. The series is great and do deserves more sales.

 

[Hookshot]

That was from latest FY report presentation slides to show the growth and sales on Switch to investors even Mario titles got one.

Some of those numbers are nuts, especially with another 5-6 months to sell before the Switch 2 and another Christmas period in that time.

Shame not everyone like Metroid as much as I do.

 

[mhirano]

Now imagine what would happen if they made a good Pokemon game

Pokemon Legends Arceus was nice, as far as I'm concerned

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Now imagine what would happen if they made a good Pokemon game

Well it's called Yokai Watch but no one bought it

Yes I'm extremely salty

 

[R6Rider]

Crazy seen as they aint made a decent one since the ds days

People keep rewarding them for making buggy and lazy games.

 

[E-Cat]

Pokemon Legends Arceus was nice, as far as I'm concerned

Well it's called Yokai Watch but no one bought it

Yes I'm extremely salty

Mainline game

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Mainline game

 

[Three]

I was thinking what an amazing attach rate until I realised it's franchise sales and near yearly releases. This would be like saying call of duty or Fifa sold 200-300M on X platform, but listing their franchise sales. Impressive but not as impressive as it sounded initially.

 

[Inanilmaz]

 

[hemo memo]

Aside from Arceus, which was, in my opinion, very good, the rest is the same copy-and-pasted, decades-old gameplay.