In Just Two Days New Pokémon Snap Became April's Best-Seller In UK Retail

My son bought it from his birthday money, I preloaded it from the eShop though for him. He’s having a lot of fun with it, well done Nintendo.

I'm holding off for a decent sale, its too short for a full priced title.
It would have also been nice to see more texture on the Pokemon, they look pretty flat considering it's a scripted onrails photography - they could have at least included fur like the AC models.

Do copies posted on 29th so they arrive with customers on 30th constitute the first of the 2 days or do the figures actually run into 1st May?
Who knew a Pokémon sequel people have been waiting for aeons for would sell well.

Is the nostalgia for this game really strong? Or is April a slow month?

Nice to see it do well regardless, hopefully they can revive some of the other Pokémon spin offs.

@Mr-Fuggles777 it's around 12-15h just to finish the game, and you still need to complete, some people say around 35-40h.

What's too short about it?

I'll pick it up for around 50 bucks when it goes on sale. I don't care about length, it's just not my type of game usually, but it does look fun.

With ACNH doing so well this time last year, and New Pokemon Snap doing so well this year, I'm sort of afraid that this time next year Nintendo's game will be Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival 2 or some such. I'd actually take Nintendo Land 2. Not year another Wii U port, but a sequel made for multiple Switch. A lot of homes w/ kids have more than 1 now thanks to the Lite.

But quarantinewhile, BotW 2, MP4 and Bayonetta 3 are silent.

I do appreciate that Nintendo has games like ACNH and Pokemon Snap, and Labo and Ring Fit, variety is good, but we were trolled with Pikmin 4 for years. Oh well, E3 next month, Nintendo has to have more for the Switch after Skyward Sword (played it already) than Splatoon 3 next year.

Splatoon gets yet another sequel, on Switch, and it's been SEVEN years since Mario Kart 8. 😒

I hope it does as well elsewhere and drives home the message to Nintendo that reviving old games can bring big sales! New Kirby Air Ride next please. 😁

@Kimyonaakuma Highly doubt it's just nostalgia. There will be plenty of young players getting it who were born after the original release.

@Kimyonaakuma As one of the people who waited 20+ years, I can say from personal experience so far that the game more than holds its own. Yes, the concept and inclusion of a certain character drive home the nostalgia part. But it's a really more fleshed-out game than the first. I'm very pleased with how much care was put into it and how its turned out. And it looks good.

My kids, on the other hand, don't get the appeal. My wife's reaction was "That's all you do is take pictures?" And I guess I can understand not getting it unless you played and enjoyed the original

At this point I'm pretty sure Nintendo could re-release an emulation dump of the CDi Zelda games, and they'd be #1 best sellers for 10 months. All a game needs is the Nintendo logo on the box and it just automatically sells out.

@Kimyonaakuma There's also isn't a competitor on the market for young gamers if you think about it.

If you were a parent, what else would you get your kids? Fortnite? LOL.

@AndyC_MK I'd love a new Pilotwings or 1080... 😃 Every time I play Mount Wario in MK8 it reminds me how good the latter could be on Switch...

@NEStalgia,

You sound so cynical fella.

I think the Pokemon company could release anything they want, the brand is insane at the moment.

Great, it's great. Get these guys on the mainline games!

Not sure if Nintendo will discuss this game's global sales when they release their FY2021 financial report, but if they do, I'd expect its global launch week shipment to be well above 1 million copies.

@Faruko the YouTube videos I've seen put completion at around 15 hours.
That's not enough gameplay for a full priced game for me. I try to get 1 hour gameplay for each £1 spent, so I would be expecting 50 hours at least for a full priced title.

I will likely grab this when I see it for around £20 or so

It's a great game really enjoying it and I've been playing it over the long weekend there. Not finished yet still plenty of things before then.
Like it's not short (might not be like breath of wild levels but few are).
I don't get the this isn't worth full price comments I've beaten ps4 games in less time no one says they are short.
As long as its not offensively short like 5 hours with no replay ability and I'm enjoying it its worth it.
If it's not your bag that's fine too tastes differ but it's not short or a budget looking title.
Also I'd rather have enjoyment playing a game then just takes alot of time.
Take GC Wind Waker great game with awful late game fetch padding.
So time doesn't equal quality.

@Mr-Fuggles777

Slightly weird logic. If those 15 hours are a blast then surely it could be considered value for money. Then you could replay it, especially as you won't be likely to 100% it first time around. And also resell if you buy physical and make half the money back, maybe more.

I could spend a tenner going to the cinema for two hours, or a fiver on a pint that I could drink in 15 minutes.

Games at 40/50 quid offer much better value for money in my eyes.

But you do you.

fully deserved loving this game!

@johnvboy I'm not cynical. The world is sub-par.

@AndyC_MK So which is the second day of April that the game was on sale? It came out on 30th April. The day after wasn't April anymore Stores selling it on the 29th surely wouldn't be disclosing that.

@AndyC_MK I hope so. I'm really beginning to question my interest in Nintendo. Too much Nintendo Logic, not enough, well, whatever would make sense to most of the rest of us. I don't know how F-Zero fans haven't moved on, Nintendo basically told them to f'off. 🤷‍♂️

Nintendo always gets ragged on for having graphics and horsepower below the standards of other consoles. And yet they keep surprising us with games like BotW and Pokemon Snap. I will keep playing Snap not just because of its beauty, but like BotW, because of all the little interesting nuggets to discover. This game is surprisingly packed with them. And yeah, I guess it being pretty doesn't hurt.

@NEStalgia "I'm not cynical"

Cynical on your very best most absolute most glorious day. Like Christmas morning is your time to be cynical. The rest of the time, well...😉

Also, my kids would buy that. 😂

@rjejr

Cause those F Zero fans (hand up) still likely love Mario, Zelda etc as well?

@TheFullAndy Comparing it to other ways of spending money is fair enough but when you compare it to other items from the same area then it's not weird logic. Why does Link's Awakening cost so much compared to BotW when I finished it in a tenth of the time and it's a remake of an old game so there weren't any costs on writing a story or anything like that? I'm not saying that a game should be priced solely on play time but it is a factor on perceived value for money for the consumer.

I am huge fan of Pokemon but, the biggest reason why i play is the shiny Pokemon. There are not shines in new Pokemon snap so ill wait till they add it or wait till Pokemon legends Arceus. Regardless it is still good to see it do well.

@ilh

A short game can be much more fun and replayed multiple times, a long game can be a slog and sometimes not even finished.

I have put a hundred hours into BotW, probably put even more into Star Fox 64 which can be completed in an hour and probably put 1000 hours into Resident Evil 4, much shorter games.

I don't put too much emphasis into the perceived length of a game compared to the the cost of it and it is certainly one of my least important factors when considering a purchase.

As I said, I found Mr Fuggles logic weird but that's just me and I appreciate perceived length of a game x cost is more important to some.

Edit: Also I beleive it is fair to compare the cost of games to other entertainment prices such as films or nights out, as they come from the same part of my disposable income (not that you were disputing that).

I haven't played the original game and to be honest, back in the day when the original got released, i didn't find any meaning to it. Nowadays though, i cannot refuse that i feel caught by the relaxed gameplay of the new pokemon snap.
It seems a real relaxed gaming experierence.
And i think it s a formula that can be enriched with more pokemons or islands, with a future dlc.

so much for a "dying console"

I don't feel bad for not supporting the game at launch now. Really enjoyed the original so I'll definitely pick it up at some point when I'm not trying to save up as much. Bravely Default II wasn't a huge seller as far as I can tell so glad I did my bit there

@NEStalgia,

Now you sound even more cynical.

I do want to get this still, but used of course. I won't be giving TPC anymore money until they respect their customers again. And the game is very short too, so I won't pay more than $20.

@Mr-Fuggles777 The Switch GPU is very bandwidth limited so something like fur effects could effect the framerate given the good level of detail in other aspects of the games graphical makeup. Its one of the reasons the Donkey Kong character model in Smash Bros Ultimate lost the fur shader the Wii U one had.

@Scoopz it probably hasn't helped that I've been watching the trailers for Biomutant, but when I watched the Pokemon Snap gameplay the flatness of the character models really stood out.
It also shouldn't take much processing power, its onrails so most of it is a glorified cutscene with moderate interaction potential.

@Mr-Fuggles777 Without being a developer we cant really make those kind of assumptions. The fact that its on rails has already been taken advantage of in other areas of the graphical make up through far better image quality and geometry than any other Pokemon game before it. But things such as fur shaders sap bandwith and as i mentioned previously theres precedence for such effects to be left out of Switch titles as we are dealing with whats effectively mobile hardware.

@Mr-Fuggles777 Eh I'm not fond on that £ to hours conversion. I remember Dragon Quest IX took me ages to complete but I realised a big chunk of my playtime was spent running back and forth between Liquid Metal Slimes.

Personally I see more value in 5 minutes of fun content over an hour of grind/slog. Especially since that 5
minutes will be more fun in repeat playthroughs.

@AndyC_MK "Shin'en Multimedia" Now there's a name I haven't seen in awhile. Guess I slept on Touryst. 🤷‍♂️

@TheFullAndy Traitors. 😉

@ilh Actually. Links Awakening has been in the $45 ball park in amazon since 2020 among several.