| VideoGameAccountant said: This is just flat out wrong and it's something I addressed in my previous post. Looking at raw sales is misleading because ALL Switch software is doing better than previous iterations. This goes for Mario, Zelda, Splatoon, Smash, Mario Party, Fire Emblem and Kirby. We should expect this to be true of Pokemon. So Pokemon selling more than the 3DS games is expected. Moreover, the pandemic helped Nintendo as people bought Nintendo Switches to play during lockdowns. This is why ALL software went up. The reason I'm looking at growth is because customer dissatisfaction will be seen in the long term trend of sales and not the initial release. Pokemon Sword and Shield sold 16 million in its first quarter, so the quality of the actual game was not a major factor for these purchases. Folks bought the game early on and most were not aware of the controversy. Moreover, there was a lot of hype because this was an HD Pokemon and also the fact that some people who may not have owned a 3DS owned a Switch. But the games aren't keeping pace with the sales trends of other titles. You're second paragraph tells me you didn't understand what I was doing. I'm comparing sales of games across a set period and showing how Pokemon sold less than other titles. Pokemon is a massive series and outsold similar integrations on the 3DS. The Pokemon games were newer than the other games I compared and, as such, I would expect Pokemon to outsell those games. But Pokemon is not outselling titles that were released 2 years previously. Instead, it's lagging behind. What this tells me is the disappointment with Pokemon Sword and Shield became evident after the initial honeymoon phase with the game, which resulted in slower growth when compared with other major titles. If you want a better comparison, go look at Nintendo's 2020 results and look at the number of titles that outsold Pokemon during the year. Its not that I'm mixing opinion and "objectives" (think you meant facts here). It's more you don't understand what I'm talking about. |
No dude looking at sales is not wrong in regards to brand strength because sales are a core part of determining brand strength plain and simple you may not like it but that's the objective truth of the matter. For one the whole controversy was hard to miss for anyone it was all over twitter, YT and even in newspapers like the Metro here in UK a free paper given to people on their morning and even commutes people didn't miss the controversy most just didn't care for it only the vocal minority online found it a big issue as for many 400 Pokemon is more than most will bother to catch and it's not the first so called controversy with Pokemon from the vocal minority either as Pokemon LG was another one yet again that prove the vocal minority wrong.
Secondly you're going on about growth yet ignore that SW/SH has shown far better legs than prior games which also contradicts your decline stance and argument that it's not keeping up with platform trends it very much well is as the first HD Pokemon it's returned the series back to the sales levels of what it had in the 90s it's not even a case of anyone not understanding what you're doing it's a case of you cherry picking aspects to push this narrative as factually brand decline is incorrect no matter what angle you're trying to come from because sales increased, legs increased and it moved NS units on release growth for other games simply doesn't offset this. It's like saying GTA is on a decline because Minecraft has outsold it.
