Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@HobbitGamer Second week sales of Let's Go outsold first week sales of Battlefield V in Japan. No idea what his point is though.

@HobbitGamer It's written "from MediaCreate"... ^^
You can easily understand that's the weekly sells in Japan !

@Octane My point was that I explained here that Pokémon Let's go will drop heavily in terms of sells after the first weeks.
I explained that the "PokéJunkies" will buy the game day one but the "standard gamers" will not really care because they want a "real pokémon game". ^^

Didn't Pokemon almost always have massive drop-off though? For example, Sun/Moon went from 1.6m to 350k sales from one week to the next...

@Cobalt Your point is that despite a drop from week 1 (which is expected), its still outselling a week 1 game which launched on systems with a larger install base? Huh?

I don't think those numbers are really comparable, nor representative. You don't have to look far to find indicators of Pokemon's success, both historically and on this occasion.

Pokemon is Pokemon. It sells. Well. A tiny portion of "hardcore competitive Pokemon players" who still cross-breed their Gen1 Pokemon and identify the stripe difference between 2003 Pikachu and 2018 Pikachu aren't terribly significant a market.

@Cobalt No, I don't know what the number sets mean without a legend.
I had to go find the source so I could even understand it. I didn't even know what MediaCreate was, btw. Context is a beautiful thing.

https://gematsu.com/2018/11/media-create-sales-11-19-18-11-25-18
11/19/18-11/25/18
LEGEND: Software Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
1) [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Let’s Go, Eevee! (Bundle Editions Included) (Nintendo, 11/16/18) – 162,467 (823,707)
2) [PS4] Battlefield V (Electronic Arts, 11/20/18) – 110,653 (New)

@Cobalt That's what all games do... Besides, I think it's the other way around. I've seen people buy this game that haven't bought a Pokemon game in years, the people that played Pokemon GO and happened to have a Switch. I think the competitive players are the ones waiting for next year's game.

Anecdotally, I've seen family members that were reintroduced to the world with GO pick up a Switch just for this. I imagine this is the ideal scenario for Nintendo and there are plenty others like them. Seems like it's doing super well despite all the whining.

@Octane That's me. Before UM in March, the last new pokemon game I bought was Diamond. I don't even know if I'll play the new 2019 title, but I really enjoy Let's Go.

Pokemon lets go have already sold 3 millions, if that isn't a successful game, I don't know what is.

@PikPi The whining came from the "competitive" "fans". What percentage of the Pokemon global brand consumer sensation actually follow competitive play? Most follow Pikachu from the Thanksgiving Parade balloon, not through the stats of the championships and shinys.

Lost of people here sure understand gaming, but so few seem to understand consumer kids brands when there was any doubt at all that a game with a smiling Pikachu and the word Pokemon on the cover wouldn't light up holiday sales charts.

@NEStalgia "but so few seem to understand consumer products in general"
FTFY

Color Zen is free on the eShop. Decent little puzzler.

Finally...a game folk can't complain it's cheaper elsewhere lol.

Ooh thats a good one, basically Cypronia's only good game. Didn't know there was a switch version.

Just saw Katamari release moved up a day to 12/6/18

@GrailUK what's the catch??

@bluemage1989 I don't know, but fill yer boots! I bought 12! (/jk)

@GrailUK yeah just went and grabbed a copy seems strange Color Zen Kids is paid but worth a try for a free game.

@ReaderRagfish Why I outta...