 Well, Nintendo and the Pokemon Company did exactly what I thought they would do in wake of Early sales data that I was privy to and that is given official announcement and update on the launch sales for Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield and we now know that Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield have sold six million copies worldwide during launch not during launch would include The whole weekend and all of that not just launch day So that's really impressive and is ahead of let's go Pikachu and let's go Eevee And this is obviously before we get to Black Friday or assuredly more and more are gonna sell along with switch lights and all of that jazz We also have the launch sales for it just for Japan And it's all about 1.3 million in Japan moved 180,000 switches combined of the switch light and the regular switch Etc technically it's like a few hundred short of launch week for let's go last year in terms of number of switches sold but you know If you're reading into you know, mere hundreds of units of difference in a hundred eighty thousand plus sales I don't really know that it means a whole lot But what is interesting here is that it did sell over two million copies in the US alone And that has made it the highest grossing launch ever for the Pokemon series at least in the United States They are not saying it is the fastest selling Pokemon ever They're not saying it's the best selling Pokemon ever just that it also let's go to picture Let's go Eevee and it's made the most money of any other Pokemon game. So that is very interesting. Obviously, we don't know where the sales for this is gonna end We it'll have a strong rest of this month, of course, you know six million worldwide Don't be surprised when it passes 10 million by the time we even get to December and maybe a couple million in December But it'll be interesting to see where it goes from there If this can be a 15 to 20 million seller Like some of the best of the best Pokemon games have been or if it's going to be one of those games that Kind of Peters off around the 11 or 12 million mark sort of like let's go picture and let's go Eevee did you would assume The hype around this game is much bigger than let's go was so it should outsell Let's go pretty handedly But whether or not it can achieve, you know sun and moon levels whether or not we're looking at you know Silver and gold levels or something is the yet to be determined Obviously, there's the whole will it be the best selling of all time Which needs to get or get really close to 30 million in sales to pull that one off So I don't know that that's attainable, but you never know. It's it's possible You know these launch sales are not bad They're also not like the best ever, but they are very very good. So what does this mean in general? Well, it means That in my last video so people got really upset at me talking about you know how haters got kind of slapped in the face for the sales and now we actually have the sales and It just turns out that no matter how many people are critical of the games I don't matter how many people hate on these games or I guess people don't like that word hate because they're just Too focused on the negative context. So let's just say strongly dislike the games they Don't really matter in the grand scheme for a game freak in the Pokemon company because there are essentially Too many people that just enjoy the games for what they are and don't care about any of the stuff going on on the internet I think what happens oftentimes when we're on the internet and this is just something I personally have experienced many times And I can only talk about my personal experiences because they're the only ones I have to work with here When I Go on the internet and I see a lot of people complaining about something But then I also see that something sells very well And then I talked to people in real life that are playing that very thing that the internet thinks no one should buy and they talk About how much they enjoy it these people aren't sitting here on the internet You know going on and on about it and we have this weird attitude as gamers I guess to dismiss people who aren't on the internet for some ungodly reason because they're filthy Casuals or whatever you want to call them as if you need to be on the internet on gaming forums and YouTube to be a Serious gamer. It's weird because I have friends that would be easily Categorized as that because they're not on the internet talking about this stuff. Yeah, they play Hundreds of hours of games every single week. It's crazy to me when I think about that and then I go back to Them being called the casual just because they're not on the internet praising or you know bitching for lack of a better word about games like they're they're just Casuals, you know, I my children as an example You know big oh their kids and kids by definition are casuals But they play more games than most adults and they play them really frequently aka every single day so What's so casual about that? I Seriously ask you Would you want to be called a casual when you were a kid playing video games? Does that make sense to you with the amount of that you think back on how much video games you played as a child? Is that something that fits a definition for you? So why should it be a definition for today's children? Why because they play games on phones? That's a you problem if you want to dismiss them because they play tablet games Just as hardcore as we were playing and 64 games back in the day like That's that's a you problem in you being dismissive of what they're playing More so than them not actually gaming seriously because they are gaming very seriously. My daughter takes Minecraft Roblox and a few other games Whom I seriously as I was taking a Legend of Zelda Mario 64 and Duke Nukem Like she was taking these games as serious as I take those games I'm not gonna you know judge her because of the game She plays like how elitist do you have to be to think you're better than someone because you play games that you think are Better experiences like who gives a crap. We all play games for the same reason to have a damn good time So I think that what this shows is all the criticism for these games. I'm not gonna say it's not warranted I'm not gonna say that we shouldn't want or expect game freak to do better We shouldn't especially when it comes to frame rate performance with how this game looks from a visual perspective where it doesn't necessarily look like it's that visually impressive and we now have literal direct evidence that Some textures in the game aren't even in 1080p even though the game displays in 1080p Some of the textures aren't even 1080p textures So when you when you think about stuff like that, you're like, how is this game dipping in performance ever? From, you know 30 FPS to 20 we're not even talking about 60 look at 30 FPS to 20 I like how how is that happening and the obvious answer is this is likely the 3ds engine just running on switch and the 3ds engine For Pokemon is fine and everything which the 3ds engine is actually a modded DS engine Which is a modding it basically just been modifying the same engine, you know every single new gen of hardware But it's very obvious that it's probably time to build a new engine for switch That actually is optimized for the switches hardware and then from there You can expand upon that and do something magical and have a 60 FPS Pokemon game Which is what this should be And have no fear of running better textures In fact, I wonder if the lower texture quality is intentional to make the FPS dips not Worse especially in the wild area But that's neither here nor there again. There's plenty of warranted criticism Some people don't care as much about the national dex as others or some people don't care about that or care about the whole hashtag game Freakleid thing that's in the eye of the beholder and what you personally care about there are people who never cared about the national dex Or obviously people that passionately care about that. That's obviously one of the biggest criticisms It's all legit you guys can criticize away and have your fun But what is also legit is that there's millions and millions of millions six million to be exact that seemed to be enjoying Pokemon sword and shield and I don't think it's wrong for them to enjoy it I know it's upsetting because when people buy the game it doesn't give Game Freak incentive to change But I'm just gonna be honest and this is just You can call it a personal opinion if you want because it is But I noticed that Game Freak was being lazy with Pokemon a long time ago It didn't take sword and shield to open my eyes to it I said this in the comments in the last video, but maybe it needs to be just stated right right here in the open Game Freak hasn't really put a ton of effort into Pokemon in a long time They were given the excuse basically that oh they're on handhelds because they're on handhelds on limited hardware Although all hardware actually has limits, but that's another here or there on limited hardware that it's okay to do what they do It's okay for them generation to the next generation to just copy paste Literal elements to use the same engine to copy paste textures and sometimes Oh, you know just remix music and call it good not even come up with new music sometimes To obviously create one set of Pokemon You know you know textures and Pokemon What what what are those things called? Man that was that was the big debate too as well whether or not they had to remake them anyways The point is you know using the same Pokemon game to game. It's all copy pasted And yes copy pasting happens a lot just in general in the coding world just to make coding easier But Game Freak was basically doing bare minimum work all these years on these 3ds Oh look at the love and the passion they put into this they put into that when you could literally stack the games up side by side by side just take a random Spot in the game stack it up side by side by side And there are gonna be times when if you aren't a hardcore Pokemon fan You'd be hard-pressed to tell me which Pokemon game is which because they all look like carving copies of each other Because they are Because that's what Game Freak has been doing for 20 years It's nothing new. I mean we just had the 20th anniversary of You know golden silver and I think back to those days and not a whole lot of shit I think what the biggest leap was When they went to I think X and Y When they finally got away from just a straight top-down Sprite style and actually gave us like a more 3d 2.5d, you know angled perspective on the world kind of like Link's Awakening on switch that it does You know going from that where it was originally top-down to that more angled thing I think between worlds. I guess does the same thing and it's like that's great But that was the leap and then they just kept it that way and copy pasted like Think about think about this like almost all of the games, you know start out with your you wake up You choose one of three Pokemon you have a rival who always chooses the opposite Pokemon of yours And then blah blah blah blah the stories are all very similar. They're very repetitive Eight gyms and and even when they got rid of the gyms for a little bit They still had a very similar pacing to how the game worked the games are just they are what they are Pokemon games are Pokemon games. They are Madden. They are Call of Duty If you are hardcore in the Call of Duty and hardcore in the Madden You can tell the difference between every single version of Madden You can tell the difference in every single version of Call of Duty You could spy all the things so it's all the different story elements all the different this all the different that and that's great And all of it is true, but if you are an actual casual on the outside looking in you can actually see it for what it is And that is oh the games are not Are not that different from each other though one you play one Call of Duty you played them all you played one Madden You played them all you played one Pokemon game You played them all and I realized that a long time ago and I think that's a huge reason why I started to not really care about the series because Pokemon is Is near and dear to my heart because it's a huge part of my childhood but then it just became the same thing on repeat and Maybe I was spoiled and and I had to have been spoiled because there's a lot of games are like that It's not just Call of Duty and Madden right you played doom you're gonna play a doom eternal next year It's gonna feel like doom because it's a doom game There's nothing wrong with this with this approach But that's me that that's when the fans don't expect anything else and what happened is Pokemon took a leap to a Home console, you know what Nintendo calls a home console and it has a lot more power than Pokemon's ever had And it doesn't really feel like they did anything with that power beyond an a free camera in One part of the game Which just makes the rest of the game feel like it's lacking. It's weird and again I'm not even gonna say it's completely lazy Because Game Freak doesn't have time when they make Pokemon games. I don't know if you know this They spent less time developing You know Sun and Moon then they did this game for people think oh, they're rushing They're late though They spent more time making this game on switch than they did They had a bit a larger team and more development time to make this game and they did Sun and Moon And yet this is what they came up with. It's their first true blue mainline Pokemon game made in HD That's a huge transition there They had to get the engine to work on switch because they weren't gonna build one from the ground up They had to do a lot and plus this doesn't include part of the team that was working on let's go Pikachu Let's go Evie as well because you know they got to keep that yearly release schedule going because hey We can't have a break in that anymore. We've had a break in it before we didn't like having that year break in there So we got to keep it going and people keep buying it So why would we stop and Game Freak is just under all this pressure to get games out as quickly as they can Why would they change when they're not there's no incentive to the people keep buying the games and They're loving it and there's nothing wrong with loving it. So that's the thing like I can't be mad that people enjoy the games It's never gonna be a breath of the wild It's never gonna be a Zelda in general See what what has kept Zelda so fresh over the years is that you never really know what's gonna happen game to game We know that breath of the wild to the sequel or whatever It's gonna be is going to feel very similar to breath of the wild because well It's literally a sequel to breath of the wild But after that put like Zelda doesn't stay on that stick for more than like two or three games And then all of a sudden they move on to something in a completely different direction Heck we had the original Legend of Zelda and then all of a sudden they went with a side scroll or RPG thing in Zelda 2 and they went back to the Zelda one thing with all these new elements and they kept that going for a little bit and then they just leap to Ocarina of Time and they kept that with Majora's Mask and then they kind of poot-poot all that and decided to go in a completely different direction with this Ocean type of game in this new art direction in the Wind Waker and like they just keep doing this And then all summer at we're all the way, you know fast forward breath of the wild You know following up a three player multiplayer Zelda and try for heroes And it's like the Zelda just keeps doing all these new things Mario is the same way as well There's some very repetitive stuff like in the new Super Mario Brothers series But then like you'll get a galaxy one galaxy two and the next time we see Mario in that kind of setting You get a Odyssey and it's not the same type of game and so Pokemon doesn't do that though Pokemon does that new Super Mario Brothers style and just does it over and over and over again on repeat every single year It's doing Kirby. I'm just gonna be honest Kirby comes out every year It's it's got practically the same amount of effort put into it as Kirby does the difference is that more people Enjoy what Pokemon is than what Kirby is. Sorry Kirby. Don't mean to insult you I know you're a saccharized boy, but man, we got to be honest Pokemon destroys you in popularity 240 million plus copies of Pokemon have sold worldwide in general and This isn't even counting the mobile games and all the spinoffs and all that. This is just the mainline game So I got to remember Pokemon is what it is and you are either gonna love it for it Is or you're gonna hate it, but I Decision they love or hate. I don't hate Pokemon I am going to be picking up a copy of sword or shield eventually here I do have a broken switch in my possession right now that I am attempting to fix the big thing I want to fix our first is the Video out because I want to use this switch specifically to stream and record gameplay for you guys and The video out doesn't work at charges But I put it in a dock and it's not this way out to the TV And yeah, I figure out why that is one one thing I have to do is make sure I do the correct cable order on the dock Because sometimes the wrong cable order can screw things up and it's very specific You have to plug in the power into the the dock and then you have to plug in the HDMI into the dock and then plug That HDMI into the TV and that will sometimes fix the problem right there. It's like a firmware issue. I don't know It's weird And and that's one way obviously there could literally be a problem with the USB C port and I got to replace it There could be a short somewhere in the circuit board that you know, I might have to fix with a with a wire There's a lot that I need to sort out with that and if I can get that to work Then I'll fix the rest of the switch and here. I'll be back streaming with you guys and recording new gameplay but for now I am Okay with what's happening with Sword and Shield because I've had to be okay with it for the past decade Two decades because that's just what Pokemon is Some people are just finally realizing it because they finally, you know, did the proverbial gone too far in their laziness when really this is probably one of the most difficult games they've ever had to make because it's the first one they've done in HD and Everyone always underestimates how hard it is to make main core games for anything in HD until they actually do it So this is actually a game that they had the most time with a game that they spent the most development money on and It's still not good enough reality is game freak isn't going to change they have a strict schedule And this is just what Pokemon is and you're either going to accept it or you're not it's what it's always been and If it took it coming to a quote-unquote home console to open your eyes. Oh Well, I mean if they did the same thing and released it at 40 bucks on 3ds. I Bet you there'd be a lot less people complaining Anyways, thank you guys so much for tuning in. Let me know what you think about the sales of Pokemon sword and shield I am the thing of a chance from Nintendo Prime Still not feeling the greatest. I announced on Twitter that I have like a flu kind of thing going on I am at the tail end of it. So I'm getting a little better Hopefully I get a couple videos out for you guys today because I've been talking a lot of Pokemon lately I think it's time to now we have the launch sales I guess just time to time to move that move on forward to talk about something else. So Thank you guys for listening and I'll catch you in the next video