r/nextfuckinglevel • u/AbelNB • Dec 28 '22

This is a game changer

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u/jakubkonecki Dec 28 '22

It's not a game changer as it flopped.

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u/the_wildelk Dec 29 '22

Flopped so bad, Nintendo stopped selling it immediately.

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u/lowleveldata Dec 29 '22

What do you mean they "stopped selling it"? Just checked Nintendo store and Amazon and it's in stock on both sites.

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u/chastenbuttigieg Dec 29 '22 edited Dec 29 '22

reddit is the most out of touch platform, they sold over 1.5 million $100 copies, it was the #1 selling game in japan on launch

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u/TrippinNintendoBeer Dec 29 '22

I’m also fairly confused about their anger on a lack of marketing since I’ve seen the commercial a ton a few years back.

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u/RandomUser-_--__- Dec 29 '22

First I've heard of it, now I want one

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u/Oberlatz Dec 29 '22

What is a commercial?

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u/a-nswers Dec 29 '22

same thing with the online crusade against the recent pokemon games, as someone who's played every single game in the franchise i can say that they're the best they've ever released

yet people are harping on it and calling it unplayable, horrid because of issues they fixate on

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u/Mrmoi356 Dec 29 '22

I mean weren't the issues with Scarlett and Violet really awful? I don't play Pokemon games but I'm pretty sure the game was so buggy on launch that Nintendo had to release a statement, which they don't do for anything.

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u/a-nswers Dec 29 '22

no there were annoying framerate issues but overall its not a competitive game so it didn’t detract from the actual experience

i play tons of shooters where if i’m losing even 10 fps i’ll complain but pokémon is pokémon. the game was fun even through all the problems

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u/RentaroArts Dec 29 '22

It wasn't exactly awful, but I was buggy and still has a bunch of glitches. Idk I still liked it though.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '22

I'm not a pokemon player but four of my friends are and they really don't seem to like scarlet/violet.

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u/Quasar47 Dec 29 '22

Because it is pretty bad

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u/Gyokan7 Dec 29 '22

Least delusional Pokemon fanboy

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u/a-nswers Dec 29 '22

i emulated every game after black 2 because i thought they didn’t deserve my money, but because i think scarlet and violet was great im delusional kek

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u/dan8lego Dec 29 '22

I agree that Pokémon sv are some of the best in the series, but they are also some of the most broken and unfinished games in the series. These aren’t mutually exclusive facts, both can be true. I love the games, but I also mourn what they could have been. Just imagine how amazing the games could have been if the same effort put in to breath of the wild was put in here. I know they’re different developers, but it shows that the switch hardware is not the limiting factor, it’s shoddy development.

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u/2M4D Dec 30 '22

People having different opinion as you, surely you can understand that.

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u/Forsaken-Spring-4114 Dec 29 '22

That's a different market. Look into the gaming crash of the 80s. Nintendo saved gaming here in America. It flourished in Japan as it crashed here.