This will finally be the game that buckbreaks Pokefags beyond reckoning and sells badly.
Yeah i really hope so. ZA is the tipping point.
i bought it on my switch 2 and its fun so far
Oh well still bought it and I'm having fun so far. Love X&Y
I wish, they're already calling the criticism "negativity", they might end up pushing another #thankyougamefreak at this point
lol, lmao even
>>58448044It'll sell a guaranteed 15 million copies at the minimum. We'll only see a potential dip in sales with Gen 10, because they will no longer have the Switch 1 installbase to ensure big sales.
i bought it, its fun. would buy again
>>58448044Let's be real. If Dexit didn't do it, nothing will.
>>58448134I think 1 shitty setting + lame af characters + killing a beloved character + unplayable on switch 1 basically + broken battle system + no breeding + woke + mediocre music and designs + dexit + feature cuts + overpriced game and dlc + predatory mega lock with forced online + poor imagining of kalos (which isnt a high point in pokemon) could possibly make this game sell unimpressively like lets pissRemember to gas up and spread the word about other monster tamers and fangames
ZA is releasing after the longest gap in series history, with a holiday bundle, and is multi-platform.Thinking this will do poorly is actually schizo
>>58448044>>58448204The only way a Pokemon game won't sell is if the economy collapses and nobody can buy games anymore. And that's far more likely to happen than normalfags suddenly waking up from being mindless consumer NPCs.
>>58448242Yeah, this whole anti-marketing campaign coming from Youtubers is fucking gay and pointless. They're doing for engagement farming.
>>58448204Literally all of that doesn't even matter anyway, because Legends games aren't a priority for big sales.Gen 10 will still come along, reignite the hype storm, get people to buy Switch 2s, and sell at least 20 million copies on top of boosting Switch 2 sales MASSIVELY.
Who the fuck cares at this point, even with shit sales the games always will be shit, tcg merchandise still exist
>>58448044Game Freak have truly outdone themselves with this entry into the franchise. I just can’t believe how alive and fully realised the world feels. Finally, their years of world building have come together to create the perfect Pokemon Project. Exploring those beautiful vistas we always imagined as children with our Pokemon, every building bustling with NPCs, the architecture unique, with every nook and cranny feeling lived in. Wow, my friends. Game Freak have created with the Pokemon IP (the biggest franchise in the world at this point) a truly perfect video game. Just WOW!
>>58448044Actually Gen 10 in 2026 is Game Freak's last chance.Their biggest hit in public perception is the atrocity that is Scarlet/Violet.Gen 10 will be the series' most impactful milestone since the beginning of the series in 1996. If Gen 10 is also the usual garbage, that's it for Game Freak. The games will keep selling after that, but their public perception will be forever ruined - same as Boruto and Legend of WhorraIn any case, the literal only thing that will stop Pokemon from literally printing money is if Masuda openly supports Israel or advocates shock collars on dogs
>>58448553>Gen 9>a dent in public perceptionAnd then it became the literal second best selling pair of games in the entire fucking franchise, the people don't care if it was buggy at the start (which, btw, only happened because of memory leaks combined with Union Circle instability, so most bugs that aren't related to collision weren't even experienced by the average normalfag, which made the bugs funny rather than detrimental) because Pokemon is Pokemon, and that generates sales because of sheer brand power.And it doesn't matter what Masuda does or doesn't support anymore, because he doesn't work at GameFreak and hasn't for a few years now.The only way Gen 10 can flop is if the people become too broke to afford it and have to resort to literally stealing Switch 2s and copies of the game just to play it.
>>58448044Nope they're all loving it
>>58448204>1 shitty settingtrue>lame af characterswrong>killing a beloved characterAZ was not a beloved character and him dying at the end was a perfect conclusion to his arc. >unplayable on switch 1 basicallynot true, also it runs and looks better than SV and that's the best selling pokemon games on the switch>broken battle systemnot really, not any more broken than the regular battle system at least>no breedingwhy does that matter>wokehow?>mediocre music and designsmusic is great, designs are too, only generic NPCs really suck>dexitdid not stop pokemon games from selling progressively more and more after SWSH>feature cuts from what?>overpriced game and dlcgame is 60 on switch 1 though, agreed on the DLC>predatory mega lock with forced onlinetrue>poor imagining of kalos what does that even mean
What are the sales like so far? Sales are all that matters. Is it doing better or doing as good as Arceus?
>>58448553Scarlet and Violet were pretty good for a Pokemon game.Sword / Shield was the worst game ever put out on the switch.
>>58448044It'll do better in Japan than Arceus and sell more copies overall.
>>58448712Faggot tranny
>>58448044it's gonna sell 10 million in the first week
I haven't even bothered to Pirate it. Why would they choose XY as a setting? It's so bad.
>>58448782good argument anon but you need to kill yourself if you really want to convince me
>>58448792Kids you were 8 years old when XY came out are now 20 years old. Most people on 4chan these days started with sun and moon.You can't reason with poketards on here.
>>58448204t.moistcriticalwoaw digislop is SOOO good guys he says as he seethes about ZAkino
>>58448044worse games have sold more, i have no expectations that sales will decline
>>58448782Not a rebuttal
>>58448044You guys say this every game and then it never happens.
>>58448813The global market has exploded. Pokemon should be selling way more. Nintendo has much easier access to China. India south America and even Africa now. This third world horde is what is keeping sales for shit games from tanking.
>>58448818I would consider it a formal refutation actually.
>>58448044If a game were to break consoomers it would probably be the next game that takes the sales hit, since buying pokemon day 1 is kind of pre-programmed into them. It's not like they're looking at reviews before they decide to pick it up, else SV would have sold like shit.Then again maybe this game will take the hit from SVs bad rep.
>>58448044they could put out a game where every pokemon was a floating png of a steaming pile of shit or my micro cock and these retards would still buy it
>>58448712If you put this much effort into anything, let alone defending pokemon, you NEED to kill yourself.
>>58448859No they wouldn't, because there wouldn't be Pikachu and Eevee at the bare minimum, with Charizard and Lucario as bonuses.
>>58448044Nope, children, weebs and Japan will always carry pokemon. Its literally too big to fail. Gamefreak will never be divested from the franchise as they literally are pokemon. They print money for nintendo far beyond any other franchise or ip even if you remove game sales entirely and they are equal partners with nintendo so nintendo can't really force them to do shit. Even if somehow a game bombs our best hope is if they allow another nintendo owned developer to work on a game. It happened with the gamecube titles so who knows?
>>58448553>In any case, the literal only thing that will stop Pokemon from literally printing money is if Masuda openly supports IsraelThat wouldn't even be enough. It would be the same as the troons when Hogwarts Legacy came out. Leftists would still hypocritically buy Pokemon as their "comfort game" but impotently screech at normal people that they're "fascist" and "supporting genocide" if they do the same. In the end, sales numbers wouldn't be affected at all, and the review scores would start getting the Jewish bonus on top of the existing Nintendo and Pokemon bonuses.
>>58448859I honestly don't get it. Post golden age Pokemon spinoff never sold very well, you can't get people to buy the games just because pokemon are in it. Otherewise mystery dungeon or pokemon ranger would be selling tens of millions of copies.Why are people buying this slop? What amazed me most is people not buying pokken. Like as a kid all I wanted was to directly control the pokemon.
>>58448553>public perceptioninternet sperglords obsessing over bad textures didn't work the last three times, what makes you retards think you matter? take a break from the internet.
>>58448044It will easily beat Digislop. Probably even double its sales
>>58448901Those are DS games and Pokken is an autistic fighter game. It's not easy enough to just pick up and win.
>>58448044Sorry faggot. Pokemon will outlive us all
>>58448925perhaps. But can it beat Palworld?
>>58448044See you guys next week when this game is the best-selling RPG of the year because no one knows how to do literally anything else
What's wrong with the game?
