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Serebii Update: As of December 31st 2025, Pokémon Legends: Z-A has sold 12.3 million units
Switch: 8.41 million
Switch 2: 3.89 million
Since Nintendo doesn’t count Switch 2 upgrades as Switch 2 purchases, Z-A’s 3.89 million is only physical units.
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>>58894635
Not surprising at all.
The Switch is an absolutely juggernaut in terms of ownership.
Gen 10 sales are genuinely gonna be cooked simply because nowhere near as many people will have Switch 2. Even less considering a price raise is almost guaranteed later this year.
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>>58894637
>3 million less than legends arceus despite Switch having tens of millions of more users
>worst selling new mainline game
>worst selling mainline Switch game since Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee
Z-A objectively flopped
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>>58894635
It’s because the switch 2 sales are only physical, which is actually more impressive
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>>58894651
>3 million less than legends arceus despite Switch having tens of millions of more users
dont forget its literally bundled with a brand new console and came out during a season with next to nothing for the forseeable future
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>>58894679
Legends Arceus sold 12.64 million in its first quarter, so Z-A was actually only 340,000 short. Considering this was right after the dlc was released, Arceus will likely be completely outsold by the next quarter.
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>>58894689
Arceus sold 3.46 million in Japan in its first quarter. Z-A sold 4.2 million. Sinnoh cucks lost
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>>58894648
>Gen 10 sales are genuinely gonna be cooked simply because nowhere near as many people will have Switch 2.
This is why it’s 50:50 chance they will make it Switch 1 version as well. However if they pushed the new game to be Switch 2 exclusive and only there, the giga nerds will finally get out of their asses and start working on jailbreak the S2
This coming direct is going to be interesting for this alone
>>58894659
> The Switch era really didn't deserve to be this bountiful sales-wise.
It’s all thanks to 2020
I truly wonder, are they praying for another 2020 to enjoy another profit streak?
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>>58894828
>This is why it’s 50:50 chance they will make it Switch 1 version as well.
SV can hardly run on the switch do you really think they'll be able to make gen 10 games functional on a switch especially with all the procedural generation that's allegedly involved?
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>>58894847
Ignore the terminally retarded poverty comments. Aside from those scum always emerging at the end of a Generation, to squeal they CAN'T be left behind, but can't afford new hardware, it's not as if Nintendo are just going to gank Pokémon's chances. They HAVE released a poverty-friendly system refresh every time Pokémon's launched, with S2's delay. Something tells me they'll ensure there's a poverty-friendly Switch 2 Lite going on sale to help push Pokémon.
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>>58894629
ZAwas pretty fun actuallyI also didn't buy the DLC because I'm not that much of an idiot
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>>58894635
Anyone that bought it digitally on Switch 2 is counted as a Switch 1 sale since you basically bought a bundle of the Switch 1 version + upgrade. It's impossible to know what the true ratio is given this given that it's S1 physical + S1 digital + S2 digital VS just S2 physical sales.
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>>58896177
>no dock
>no joycons
>only one usb port
>even shittier screen than the regular Switch 2
They could easily pull one out their ass for ~$100 less if it meant more sales from parents buying multiple consoles at once for their kids
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>>58896187
But the question is : Are there enough kids as of now? What about "muh plummetting birthrates in the west"
It's either people are having kids or they aren't, it can't be; they are having kids when it's about sales but they aren't having kids to sustain a population
Pick a side goddamnit
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>>58894930
This can't really be done with Nintendo's hardware ethos due to the LLM bubble. If anything they might make a refresh of the Switch 1 lite similar to the 2dsxl. The Switch 2 might have released at the worst time possible and it still sold like crazy, there's literally no reason to make a "budget" version.
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>>58896177
And yet they released a Switch lite, which did noit in fact "canibalise" Switch sales, because the people with money who wanted a proper system bought a Switch while the povvo wankers and parents with kids went for the poverty-friendly, child-safe model.
Thanks for confirming you're a poor fucker, though. Means I can safely ignore your comment. especially when you ignore consoles were historically sold at a loss, to get people onto the ecosystem and spending money in their walled garden. Nintendo sell a povvo Switch 2 lite, they have a sperg who's going to give them money for their games, the NSO and maybe even upgrade to a big-boy system in a few years time when they get fed up of playing handheld, not tabletop with a proper controller. Hell, an OLED-level revision will almost assuredly roll around in the future, meaning the kids who get a Lite this year may well get the upgrade in 4 or 5 years time. Mind, I don't live in a third world shithole with a dictator intent on paying for his rich buddies' tax cuts by tariffing the fuck out of the plebs, maybe that's just a (You) issue.
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>>58896310
Erm, there is. Children and the fact they've always released a kiddy-friendly hardware revision around the time Pokémon debuts on-system (GBA came after, DS Lite, 2DS and Switch Lite all launched before) to ensure parents have an option to get the game in their kids' hands. And as /vp/ has told me by word and action over the past 7-ish months, a lot of them are fucking STRUGGLING with the state of their third world shithole and can't exactly afford a big boy system on top, so a smaller, cheaper version of it sounds like it'll be perfect for giving those fuckers a buy-in option, without needing to re-mortgage the house and take a bank loan out to cover the cost of getting to the shops to buy the full size one.
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