Nintendo Quarterly Results (Switch 52.48m, Pokemon 16m)

[JRPGfan]

Barkley said:

JRPGfan said:

Graphics improvements sell games...... being stuck on 3DS, alot of people wanted to see a pokemon game running at better resolutions ect.
Same thing could happend with Switch 2, if the jump visually is big enough.

I think it has more to do with combined home/handheld tbh. Switch is taking series sales to new heights, and I don't think that can be simply put down to graphics. After all, every previous generation has been a "graphics improvement".

It's combined sales of people who mainly game on TV and people who mainly game handheld.

from this:

To this:

Its a huge improvement.
Even if pokemon still has ALOTs of room to grow in, visually.

You cannot give all the Pokemon success due to higher quality of the game, or that the Switch is just selling well.
Alot of people were tired of Pokemon being stuck on 3DS and running low resolutions, and wanted a better looking game.

Thats probably the main "boost" this pokemon game got imo.