Pokemon Legends Arceus Sales Top 6.5 Million Units - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 February 2022 / 3,578 Views
Nintendo, The Pokemon Company, and developer Game Freak announced Pokemon Legends: Arceus has sold over 6.5 million units worldwide since it launched on the Nintendo Switch last Friday, January 28.
"Thank you to the more than 6.5 million explorers worldwide who have already embarked on an exciting new adventure in Pokemon Legends: Arceus," reads a tweet from Nintendo.
"We hope you're loading up on more potato mochi before your next research mission!"
Pokemon Legends: Arceus did debut in first place on the retail charts in Japan sales of 1,424,657 units, according to Famitsu for the week ending January 30, 2022.
Thank you to the more than 6.5 million explorers worldwide who have already embarked on an exciting new adventure in #PokemonLegendsArceus!
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) February 4, 2022
We hope you're loading up on more potato mochi before your next research mission! pic.twitter.com/u1MKRHkhhD
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Yet there is no budget to make the game half as pretty as Breath of the Wild. But luckily at least gamefreak tried something new with the franchise.
This! The game looks fugly, the world is empty, barren and lifeless, truly feels like a poor job. Gamefreak needs to do better next time.
Well... they sold 6.5 million copies in a week. So, it kind of seems like they don't.
Correct, absolutely, thumbs up for you! They do a lousy job and still sell crazy numbers!
"Why make a beautiful game? It's Nintendo, it's pokemon, even if it's ugly and poorly made it will sell a lot!"
Simple reality, they have a "free pass" on graphics, animation, gameplay, sound...
Pokemon (in the traditional formula) is almost guaranteed success, even if it is an ugly and poorly made game.
If people keep buying it, I guess their audience enjoys it, including me, despite the bad graphics. As long as that's the case, they'll keep making them, and fans will be happy. If you're not into it, plenty of other games out there.
Not all fans are happy, but most probably liked it. I played lot's of pokemon since good old R/B/Y, and i don't like what i see on Legend of Arceus (same for SW/SH and D/P remake (at least they fixed the damn HP bar). It's not just the fugly graphics, i realy don't like all the dodge and "the trainer" fighting tossing things at mighty pokemons instead of putting pokemons to fight first, i mean it fells so clunky, weird and unnecessary.
Imho, 7.5 is the grade for this game, it's ok and enjoyable (My past 10 years old self would go crazy playing this), but they can do so much better! Pokemon deserves so much more than this!
Enough fans are happy that they consistently buy the games. At seems like your primary complaint is just about the overall design of the game, but they were pretty up front about that. If you didn't want to sneak around and throw Pokeballs at stuff, this isn't for you. But kind of feels like a weird complaint. Like if I bought Pokemon Snap and complained that all you do is take pictures of pokemon.
Well, that escalated quickly.
Pokemon game does fantastic numbers. Shocking to no one, except the members of VGChartz I guess.
It did better than Sword/Shield did first week, and I guess people thought that after all the complaints about SW/SH and BD/SP that a new Pokemon game would tank somehow.
Not really. People thought a launch outside the holidays and so shortly after the remakes would result in a smaller launch. Idk what I expected but definitely not bigger than the previous two.
Very nice. 6.5m in the first week. Would like to see it hit 10 million for its first quarter, on the way to 20 mil lifetime!
For Sword and Shield and the Gemstone Pair 6 mil was announced after a week. Looks like it's off to a slightly stronger start.
Insanity! I must be dreaming.
Fully deserved. It's one of my favourite switch games.
Mostly positive reviews push the game to stardom and they deserve it for breaking the mold!
Some negative reactions like crappy graphics and empty barren waste land can be remedied with updates or the next sequel,
There is always room for improvement.
Holly heck!
