The critics regarding Pokemon Violet/Scarlet technical side are overblown

[DonFerrari]

IcaroRibeiro said:

DonFerrari said:

I thought that as well, but I did check couple years ago and there were quite a bunch of low metacritic games published by Nintendo on the last couple gens.

There was but overall those are games that have lukewarm reviews because of boring gameplay or little to no innovation. Switch sports is considered by many a shit game (me included), but it's because I'm not the target audience of this game. The target audience think the game is at least a bit good, same goes for ones like Mario Party 

But this Pokemon game is a bit different, it's having bad reviews even from its own target audience

That is probably true, the mainline titles from Nintendo are usually very tight. It may not be to someone taste or have all the bells and whistle, but they do work fine and mets the userbase taste in spades.

BasilZero said:

DonFerrari said:

Problem is that this game will likely still be full price years down the road.

Oh ya, that is already a given since the MSRP for Nintendo games never go down.

They do sales every now and then but its mainly retailers, not from Nintendo/eShop itself - mainly for Pokemon (recently Nintendo themselves do Zelda/Mario and other IP sales).

I'm buying Arceus for my son for Xmas, pokemon games do seem to have a little cheaper price than other mainline titles perhaps due to more resales.

KrspaceT said:

A quote I saw on Twitter puts my thoughts on this best. To paraphrase

"This game is really fun when people aren't shouting about how buggy it is'.

Yes sure