Pokémon (Not-So) Griefing Thread - Scarlet and Violet Released with 10 Million Copies in First 3 Days in Buggy States

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Unrelated sidenote- Nintendo's Quarterly Earnings Report came out recently.
Here's some links- to the explanatory material and consolidated highlights respectively.

Some highlights:
  • TOTK shipped 18.5mil units... 15.7mil of which were during its launch quarter. Not sure if it has no legs to speak of or if it's just too early to tell. I'm not very experienced with breaking down finances like this, sorry.
  • Apparently, a vast majority of those launch sales also came from people who'd played BOTW. The further away it gets from launch the more the sales seem to skew towards totally new players.
  • OLED sales have nearly doubled from last year, for some reason. The other units remain at about the same level as before, with base model sales increasing and Lite sales dropping.
  • Pokemon Scarlet and Violet have sold approx. 22.6mil units. I find this interesting for one reason only- didn't 10 million of those sales come from preorders? I distinctly remember a shit load of articles and people complaining about how the games had sold 10 million units in 3 days, and while it's wholly possible that they were exaggerating (frankly I think most of the people who parroted it were), assuming that they weren't would mean that the games took about 9 months to double their initial launch sales.
  • Regardless of previous claims, the above is made doubly more interesting by the fact that Pokemon Sword and Shield have sold about 25.9mil... over the entire course of its entire lifetime.
  • Nintendo states that the release of the Mario movie positively impacted Mario sales. They don't elaborate much further, they just give a number and move on.
  • Digital sales still make up about half of total software sales (approx. 47%), but they were lower this quarter due to TOTK's retail release doing fairly well in both mediums.
  • This is the strongest Q1 for the Switch since the beginning of COVID in terms of hardware sales.
  • It's worth noting that, due to inflation of the yen, a lot of the increases in profit might be due to price differences instead of genuine surges in interest.
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primarily for this reason.
Anonitolia said:
  • Pokemon Scarlet and Violet have sold approx. 22.6mil units. I find this interesting for one reason only- didn't 10 million of those sales come from preorders? I distinctly remember a shit load of articles and people complaining about how the games had sold 10 million units in 3 days, and while it's wholly possible that they were exaggerating (frankly I think most of the people who parroted it were), assuming that they weren't would mean that the games took about 9 months to double their initial launch sales.
  • Regardless of previous claims, the above is made doubly more interesting by the fact that Pokemon Sword and Shield have sold about 25.9mil... over the entire course of its entire lifetime.
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Jesus fuck, 22.6mil in less than a year?? SV are already in the top 5 best-earning games in the series before any DLC releases, before its first anniversary, before ANYTHING else? Fuck this, gen 10's gonna be an unplayable mess.
 
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Pokemon Presents coming on August 8th. My prediction was only a week or two off, I am clearly a clairvoyant. :smug:

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Okay, but seriously- what are you guys expecting? It's supposed to be about 35 minutes long and it has its own unique little teaser, so I think there'll be a bunch of DLC news and maybe some announcements for spin-offs or other media as well. I might be jumping the gun a bit here but it feels like it's building up to something sorta big. At the very least, I can't remember the last Presents that got its own 15 second trailer like this. Considering the teaser i'm almost tempted to say there'll be a focus on Detective Pikachu- possibly a revival of the movie's sequel- considering how much emphasis there is on the neon, but honestly I'm not getting my hopes very slightly raised. I'll just watch on Monday and see what happens.

EDIT: I will watch on Monday after the fact because I just remembered about something else that's more important and at the exact same time, whoops. Regardless, I'll do a write-up on it after the presentation if nobody else has by the time I've gone through it all.
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
The YouTube algorithm gave me this special kind of autistic mathematics that I knew existed in the Pokémon community while conveniently forgetting speedrunners are fucking obsessed with probability.
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Screeching soyboys, trannies, and a libtard randomly crying about election doubters and racism. Even for a Pokemon speedrunning video that was extremely autistic.
 
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Lone Star said:
I refuse to watch the video, but I have to ask how the fuck any of those subjects cropped up.
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One of the featured speedrunners was a tranny and he was, of course, respecting his pronouns. Another was the soyjak meme come to life screeching HORRIFICALLY because his Pokemon caught PokeRUS.

Then the TDS ridden narrator just had to randomly shoehorn in election denial and racism, and he did it through a type of closing remark. He basically said "ok now you understand math, and when your uncle comes over talking about the terrible 1-in-100 voter fraud which stole the election you can say 'does that racist dude actually know what he's talking about?' He probably doesn't!"

Because apparently concerns over election integrity are racist, but only when it's from conservatives. Just goes to show you can be a math nerd but also an insufferable retard.
 
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I am playing pokemon emerald enhanced.

If you dont play hack roms and only stick to official games, you are a nigger. These guys makes systems out a gba game that makes gsmefreak look like a demo, I really like the concept of stronger monsters inside the areas. The quests are cool too, the revamped areas is nice.

Being able to rematch the gyn leader to farm exp is amazing, and to hell with hms fucking the party up. All of it in a gba game.
 
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Since we seem to be on the subject on a weekly basis, I could powerlevel and MATI a lot in a single post and talk about how upset I am over Pokémon (and Nintendo) communities in the west being so pozzed. I miss the Newgrounds era were your Pikmin parody involved Olimar calling Louie a fag. :(
 
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Registration said:
I am playing pokemon emerald enhanced.

If you dont play hack roms and only stick to official games, you are a nigger. These guys makes systems out a gba game that makes gsmefreak look like a demo, I really like the concept of stronger monsters inside the areas. The quests are cool too, the revamped areas is nice.

Being able to rematch the gyn leader to farm exp is amazing, and to hell with hms fucking the party up. All of it in a gba game.
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>dogshit UI with awful contrast
>changes to abilities that make little to no sense
>unnecessary changes to canon typings
>gen 4-5 (and fanmade) sprites haphazardly shoved into a gen 3 game without any changes to make them more stylistically coherent
>hilariously bloated regional dex (685 mon!!) that doesn't even contain every mon up to gen 7 (despite almost every other mechanic being updated to gen 7 standards) so what's the point
>completely unnecessary addition of open-world staples (crafting, freedom of movement, followers) and achievements to an originally-linear game
>fanon moves
it's shit
 
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Anonitolia said:
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>dogshit UI with awful contrast
>changes to abilities that make little to no sense
>unnecessary changes to canon typings
>gen 4-5 (and fanmade) sprites haphazardly shoved into a gen 3 game without any changes to make them more stylistically coherent
>hilariously bloated regional dex (685 mon!!) that doesn't even contain every mon up to gen 7 (despite almost every other mechanic being updated to gen 7 standards) so what's the point
>completely unnecessary addition of open-world staples (crafting, freedom of movement, followers) and achievements to an originally-linear game
>fanon moves
it's shit
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I just want a hack that lets me catch every Pokémon in a game's original generation without trading. This is surprisingly difficult because the author insists on shoehorning in their "improvements."

Ultra Violet is probably the most well-made no-trade hack, and even that's full of this bullshit
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I just wanna catch 'em all *sigh*
 
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Joking aside, I would never actually catch all of them. There have been so many time in the past when I've thought such-and-such would make an excellent addition to my team only to go on Bulbapedia and find it's exclusive to the opposite version. Not having to deal with this is the real appeal of a no-trade hack IMO.
 
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For the record, I was actually sorta serious
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Why would you want all of them if the game is baby piss easy? Whst do you gain for having 400 monsters if the game is easy as hell. Vanilla games shows no challenge, so getting it all is pointless. It took me a long time to realize why I was catching legendaries when all they did was to rot in the box without me using it.

The vanilla games are easy enough that just leveling up a single pokemon is enough to win (that is how I beat my first game with a lvl 80 blaziken when I was 8).
 
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Registration said:
Why would you want all of them if the game is baby piss easy? Whst do you gain for having 400 monsters if the game is easy as hell. Vanilla games shows no challenge, so getting it all is pointless. It took me a long time to realize why I was catching legendaries when all they did was to rot in the box without me using it.

The vanilla games are easy enough that just leveling up a single pokemon is enough to win (that is how I beat my first game with a lvl 80 blaziken when I was 8).
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I could not give a shit about Pokemon since the early 2010s
 
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Registration said:
Why would you want all of them if the game is baby piss easy? Whst do you gain for having 400 monsters if the game is easy as hell. Vanilla games shows no challenge, so getting it all is pointless. It took me a long time to realize why I was catching legendaries when all they did was to rot in the box without me using it.
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>what is the point in catching 'em all in a series whose main tagline and entire purpose consisted almost exclusively of "collect every single monster" (up until Ohmori and co decided that didn't make enough money)
 
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