Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Was The Best-Selling Switch Game In The US Last Year

This is great news, but they won't fix the game. Why fix it if it's going to sell millions.

Man oh man! What I wouldn’t give to have a truly graphically tremendous Pokémon game.

I suppose the reality is (perhaps), that their target demo simply cares about graphics and game stability much less than a dude in his 30’s. I’ve been playing my PS5 loads lately and the thought of a Pokémon game that pushes that hardware to the brink…whew, that would be something!

Unsurprising, but sad.

Glad that people didn't listen to all the Debbie Downers that mashed together videos of glitches that happened to different players, some of who, I heard, were playing pirated copies on emulators that couldn't properiy run the software, in order to make Pokémon S&V look like an unplayable mess.

(Then again, it's Pokémon. Even if it really had been that bad, it'd still have sold a lot.)

I just had a single major glitch near the beginning of the game, an infinite loading screen when starting the Bug Gym Trial, that cost me just around one minute of progress. Apart from that, besides the occasional framerate drops, had no major issues myself.

Awesome game, here's looking forward to how further they evolve the series.

@Abes3 must have missed the patches.

This is why we can't have nice things.

....Let me know when an actual good Pokemon game comes out, which will probably be never. Maybe we'll get another new Snap game...or DLC for the current one...which is also unlikely. TwT

It was a fun little romp. I still think Legends: Arceus was a fresher and more satisfying experience overall, but this is the first traditional dual-release Pokemon game this gen that I haven't actively disliked. Actually, I'd say Pokemon hasn't been this fun in generations.

The graphics and performance issues are unfortunate, but not bad enough that they spoiled my enjoyment.

@Specters nah, my game still runs like ass in most places and does weird physics/camera things where I can't see battles or stare into the void.

All those people who said they wouldn't get Scarlet/Violet they all either: lied or didn't matter.

@thechetearly You wouldn't have to give too much. I'm running it on Yuzu @ 4k and it looks gorgeous. I have an rtx 4080 but 30 series should do it. Remember you must own the game before you emulate

Of course its Pokemon. While there's no defending the poor performance and bugs i do really love Violet and the open world really does feel like a massive step forward for the series, in fact i think S/V along with Legends are my favourite PM games since the Gen 2 remakes and the freedom is a massive reason why as well as a deeper connection to the Pokemon, also Gen 9 has Tinkaton so there's that as well.

As long as the game is fun and not FUNDAMENTALLY broken, people are willing to let a lot slide.
That's why Cyberpunk failed. The PC version was fine, but the previous gen console versions were absolute nightmare, broken in a lot of ways, and that's why it was an issue.
But take Skyrim. The game was (and still is!) a mess, many bugged quests that couldn't be finished, on PC there was a bug with different languages where you couldn't do Esbern's encounter because his audio wouldn't play, to say physics were broken is like to say nothing, and the patches were introducing MORE BUGS (anyone remember first or second patch to the game that made dragons fly backwards and breathe fire from the other end?). And yet it's one of the more succesful games there were, BEFORE all the rereleases of it. Why? Because even with all that, it was fun to play.
And so is Scarlet and Violet once you ignore the low performance and occasional glitches.

That's pretty bad news for the fans of the series. Gamefreak has literally zero incentive to make good games with good performance. Bare minimun is good enough to sell millions.

The thing to remember, best selling is not always equal with genuine best product.
It could be the boosted sales from the unfortunate peoples who bought the poor quality stuffs just because of popular label, just because a lot of peoples liking them.
Monkey see monkey do, I don't like this behavior for some reason.
Popularity is like two edge blade, one side it help the recognition but the other side, popularity just made peoples get blinded.

@Abes3 good faith and damaging the brand.

They didn’t get my money on this one. There’s plenty of better games to buy thank goodness. This game was rushed and it selling well only hurts the chances of us ever getting a complete Pokémon game ever again.

I want to like Scarlet/Violet, I really do. The pacing of the game is just sooooo poor, and the open world doesn't have enough to do to support being so big. I loved both DLCs for SwSh, all they had to do was make a bunch of nice dense areas to explore like that.

@somnambulance Wholeheartedly agree with your comment.

Not surprised, they're amazing

@Anti-Matter There's also the fact that people complain about the graphics, performance, and quality for every single game in the series. Whether or not those complaints are warranted is not the issue; they were certainly warranted here. But past a certain point, for the general buying public, it dilutes the effectiveness of those complaints, because they've heard it all before.

The shepherd cries wolf every single generation, and when the wolf has finally arrived (the state this game shipped in), the populace just assumes the crier is acting up again.

You could make Pokémon the crappiest game ever and it’d still sell 14,473,685,849,657,402 copies in the first hour

Pokemon Legends Arceus>Pokemon Scarlet/Violet.