In Just Two Days New Pokémon Snap Became April's Best-Seller In UK Retail - Nintendo Life

New Pokémon Snap seems to have gone down rather well since its launch, largely vindicating those that had called for a sequel to the N64 classic for a number of years.

When you combine Pokémon, Nintendo Switch and some rather handsome representations of everyone's favourite pocket monsters, you have a winning formula.

Now GamesIndustry.biz head Christopher Dring has shared an interesting statistic that shows us two things; April was a pretty dry month for game retail, and New Pokémon Snap had impressive and quick sales in just two days.

It may be a little while before we hear official global sales details from Nintendo, as the release will be too late to feature in the upcoming financial reports - unless Nintendo throws in a 'copies shipped' figure as an extra bit of data.

He’s having a lot of fun with it, well done Nintendo.

It would have also been nice to see more texture on the Pokemon, they look pretty flat considering it's a scripted onrails photography - they could have at least included fur like the AC models.

Is the nostalgia for this game really strong.

@Mr-Fuggles777 it's around 12-15h just to finish the game, and you still need to complete, some people say around 35-40h.

I don't care about length, it's just not my type of game usually, but it does look fun.

With ACNH doing so well this time last year, and New Pokemon Snap doing so well this year, I'm sort of afraid that this time next year Nintendo's game will be Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival 2 or some such.

I'd actually take Nintendo Land 2.

I do appreciate that Nintendo has games like ACNH and Pokemon Snap, and Labo and Ring Fit, variety is good, but we were trolled with Pikmin 4 for years.

Oh well, E3 next month, Nintendo has to have more for the Switch after Skyward Sword (played it already) than Splatoon 3 next year.

Splatoon gets yet another sequel, on Switch, and it's been SEVEN years since Mario Kart 8.

I hope it does as well elsewhere and drives home the message to Nintendo that reviving old games can bring big sales?

It’s entirely understandable why the machine has ground to a halt if their company philosophy is to create games via a method of person to person collaboration as opposed to remote working, maybe they’re holding their chips in the chance that they can get back to their old working ways at Nintendo HQ soon...

@Kimyonaakuma Highly doubt it's just nostalgia!

But it's a really more fleshed-out game than the first.

@Kimyonaakuma For me, it’s more that I wanted something to play and hadn’t picked up a Switch game for an age.

At this point I'm pretty sure Nintendo could re-release an emulation dump of the CDi Zelda games, and they'd be #1 best sellers for 10 months.

All a game needs is the Nintendo logo on the box and it just automatically sells out.

Not sure if Nintendo will discuss this game's global sales when they release their FY2021 financial report, but if they do, I'd expect its global launch week shipment to be well above 1 million copies.

I have kind of grown out of this sort of game since I played it on the Nintendo 64 but it makes me really happy to see such a well received return to Snap.

It's a great game really enjoying it and I've been playing it over the long weekend there.

Like it's not short (might not be like breath of wild levels but few are).

I don't get the this isn't worth full price comments I've beaten ps4 games in less time no one says they are short.

As long as its not offensively short like 5 hours with no replay ability and I'm enjoying it its worth it.

If it's not your bag that's fine too tastes differ but it's not short or a budget looking title.

Also I'd rather have enjoyment playing a game then just takes alot of time.

I'm really beginning to question my interest in Nintendo.

Too much Nintendo Logic, not enough, well, whatever would make sense to most of the rest of us.

And yet they keep surprising us with games like BotW and Pokemon Snap.

I will keep playing Snap not just because of its beauty, but like BotW, because of all the little interesting nuggets to discover.

@rjejr I’m still siding by them and have a ton of games on the Switch to warrant complaining about the games that we don’t have, but it’s still a crying shame that they don’t acknowledge a lot of their older IPs.

In a sense, I get it from a business perspective as F-Zero won’t sell as well as the franchises that sell like hot cakes, but the fan in me feels Nintendo dropped the ball by not giving Shin'en Multimedia the right to produce an F-Zero game; I feel they earned the right after Fast Racing.

It makes me happy seeing new franchises come along like Splatoon and ARMS, but I sometimes wonder if we’ll ever see another F-Zero, 1080, or Wave Race - it’s a shame that Nintendo only has one racer in its stable with Mario Kart nowadays...

I know games for the main part offer more longevity nowadays, but coming from an era where a game could be beaten in a day or two, I never base my purchase habits around how long a game would cost to complete.

Have more games for my Switch (67 physical games at present) than I’ve had on any other console, but would still be nice to see the old franchises get love

Why does Link's Awakening cost so much compared to BotW when I finished it in a tenth of the time and it's a remake of an old game so there weren't any costs on writing a story or anything like that

There are not shines in new Pokemon snap so ill wait till they add it or wait till Pokemon legends Arceus

A short game can be much more fun and replayed multiple times, a long game can be a slog and sometimes not even finished

I have put a hundred hours into BotW, probably put even more into Star Fox 64 which can be completed in an hour and probably put 1000 hours into Resident Evil 4, much shorter games

As I said, I found Mr Fuggles logic weird but that's just me and I appreciate perceived length of a game x cost is more important to some

Edit: Also I beleive it is fair to compare the cost of games to other entertainment prices such as films or nights out, as they come from the same part of my disposable income (not that you were disputing that)

Nowadays though, i cannot refuse that i feel caught by the relaxed gameplay of the new pokemon snap

Really enjoyed the original so I'll definitely pick it up at some point when I'm not trying to save up as much

And the game is very short too, so I won't pay more than $20

@Mr-Fuggles777 The Switch GPU is very bandwidth limited so something like fur effects could effect the framerate given the good level of detail in other aspects of the games graphical makeup

@Scoopz it probably hasn't helped that I've been watching the trailers for Biomutant, but when I watched the Pokemon Snap gameplay the flatness of the character models really stood out

The fact that its on rails has already been taken advantage of in other areas of the graphical make up through far better image quality and geometry than any other Pokemon game before it

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