Sheep

She/Her
Australia
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16.6 Years
With every new region main series game releasing for the first time on a new console, there are always plenty of people buying that console just to play Pokémon. Are you one of those people, or did you already have the Switch? If you already own the console but hypothetically didn't have one, would you purchase just for SwSh?

Storm-DC

Dance Instructor

Seen December 2nd, 2019
Posted November 18th, 2019
535 posts
16 Years
Yes I did. A yellow Lite because it reminds me of my old GameBoy Color. I've tried some other games (from indie to big titles like BOTW and Odyssey) but don't really care for those. I'm a PC gamer with a handheld for Pokémon and maybe Mario Kart.
Male
Seen July 15th, 2021
Posted February 24th, 2020
234 posts
7.1 Years
I bought my Switch for Odyssey and Breath of the Wild, and the assumption that Nintendo would pump out some more goodies.
Like Smash Ultimate! And I'm probably gonna pick up the new Luigi's Mansion.
(I was excited for Link's Remakening, but I'm not sure it's worth full console game price to me...)

One of those goodies I assumed would come was a Pokemon game, buuuut I'm not feeling these ones any more. Been too much bad news, too much meh news, and not enough good news.
I think I'm firmly settled on just watching a youtube playthrough and imagining what my team would be. Still a small chance I might pick up a used copy later on though.

At least the future holds Animal Crossing!
And BotW 2! At some point!
And Metroid Prime 4! Maybe finally eventually!
My hypothetical Galar team:
Spoiler:
Rillaboom, Toxtricity, Grimmsnarl, Coalossal, Polteageist, Frosmoth

Type combos I desire:
Grass / Fire
A real Grass / Electric
A proper Grass / Rock

yes i like grass type what of it
Galar
Seen January 25th, 2021
Posted December 12th, 2019
163 posts
3.5 Years
I'm planning to get a Nintendo Switch, actually I could buy one right now but I decided to wait for Black Friday to buy it. I wanted a Switch mostly for Animal Crossing: New Horizons but I'm getting it early for Sword and Shield with other games in mind like Fire Emblem: Three Houses or Xenoblade Chronicles 2.
Age 25
Male
Rijeka, Croatia
Seen December 7th, 2022
Posted October 10th, 2022
413 posts
4.8 Years
Oh yes, yes I did.

I didn't get a new console in about 10 years: the DS and the Wii were all we needed, and then high school came along and there wasn't much time left for playing them, let alone something new and needlessly expensive.

However, when I saw how beautiful Sword and Shield looked... They looked just like how I imagined Pokémon games in my head when I was a kid.

So I thought: well, I'm grown up now, I can allow myself a treat. This summer the Switch was bought, Rayman along with it so that there was something to play on it until Pokémon arrive. And I love it.

This winter I return to non-emulated Pokémon, and I have high hopes for this generation!

Cherrim

Age 34
she / her
Toronto
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20.4 Years
I got my Switch on a whim around launch. Regrettably, Nintendo's fake shortages actually worked on me and when I saw it in stock on Amazon one day, I leapt at the chance to buy it even though I wasn't particularly excited for anything coming out. But I don't regret actually buying one, because I've played a few games on it and it means I'm ready for this month. :D


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Male
England
Seen May 12th, 2022
Posted February 1st, 2022
105 posts
7.4 Years
I bought my Switch just for SwSh - as in, if I didn't think Gen 8 was coming to Switch I wouldn't have bought my Switch.

Since I wanted something to play, I did get Zelda: Breath of Wild with my Switch though. And later bought Super Mario Oddyey. They're both very excellent games.

Unlikely as it is, If they patch in Pro Controller compatiblity for Let's Go, I'll buy one or maybe even both of those too eventually.

VisionofMilotic

Female
Sootopolis City
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Posted 4 Days Ago
Yes, I will be buying the Nintendo Switch to play Pokemon Shield. It might sound a little sad, but I am just a die-hard Pokemon fan and not knowledgeable of many video game series outside of this one. If I didn't like what I saw of Galar then I would not make the purchase of a new console anytime soon. Instead I would just keep playing older pokemon games on the 3ds. I do ultimately really like what has been revealed of pokemon SwSh so far enough to want to give it a go. Since I'll have a switch I might as well try some other Nintendo titles, but Pokemon is what brought me here :P

Name: Narcissus
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Tennessee
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13 Years
I will always buy a new system for a pokemon game. I actually got mine last year after finding out that the next Pokemon Game, Let's Go, would be on the Switch. I actually plan to buy a Lite maybe after the pokemon games come out.

Pokemon is what pushed me to buy a 3DS as well.

colours

she/her
gracidea fields
Seen December 30th, 2022
Posted December 29th, 2022
8,974 posts
18.1 Years
i've had my switch since early-mid 2018, but i really try not to make console purchase decisions solely based on one game alone. i remember when i purchased the wii u and only really played wind waker hd and that was pretty much the only thing i bothered playing on it. it gathered dust otherwise. because of this, i go to great lengths and consider whether or not a console is really worth the long-term investment and not solely for short-term enjoyment.

this is all to say that as much as i enjoy and love pokemon, if i didn't have a switch, then spending upwards of $280-300 + bank + home + nintendo switch online would be quite steep for me. i'd have to ask myself whether these games truly have $300+ worth of gameplay and replayability and honestly, if the last two (i daresay three because i wasn't a fan of BW as much as I was B2W2, and fifth gen didn't have any interesting spinoffs) generations have indicated anything, then i'd have some massive hesitation in making that jump.

i probably would anyway because i don't really want to be left behind but it would still give me pause for quite a while.

bobandbill

one more time

Male
A cape
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15.2 Years
I bought my switch at launch with BotW. I figured Pokemon would be on it anyhow, but didn't buy it specifcally for Pokemon as much as 'I like a bunch of nintendo games, so I'll get this, also it looks good including when I tried it out prior'.

In other words, no. =p

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with an axe
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7.8 Years
No, but I sorta got my switch to ‘prepare’ for poke games on the switch, so if that counts then maybe.
I… might put something interesting here eventually.

Miss Wendighost

Satan's Little Princess

Age 23
Female
The Abyss
Seen December 21st, 2020
Posted December 2nd, 2020
709 posts
6.5 Years
I've had a Switch since Christmas (came with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe), but I will definitely consider getting SwSh for Christmas.
“In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls… generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream; and lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls.”

Joshua Chamberlain


Name: Tombstone
Adopt one yourself! @Pokémon Orphanage
Age 26
Non-binary
Liguria, Italy
Seen October 31st, 2022
Posted September 11th, 2021
176 posts
4.4 Years
I bought it back in 2017 mostly for Odyssey but also thinking of later titles to come, and haven't been disappointed with Nintendo games (especially as I didn't buy a Wii U, so all those ports were like new games for me) and third party support. Pokémon was one of those 'later titles to come' I was thinking about, however definitely neither LGPE nor Sword and Shield are the titles I'd buy a console for.

Rengoku

炎えん柱

Age 31
Male
Taishō-era Japan
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Posted January 2nd, 2023
1,484 posts
13.7 Years
Generally speaking I bought it for the purpose of playing Pokemon but I bought mine a week after release's date.
"However, if you bare your fangs at innocent people, my bright red flame blade will burn you to the bone!."
Seen February 4th, 2020
Posted November 2nd, 2019
1 posts
3.5 Years
i'm sure it would be a fun adventure when i can play it as i find the let'so go eevee a fun pokemon game and i am i too excited to wait for the 15th and i do wonder if there would be other methods than battle fellow trainers for money in the games like delivery or other small jobs everyone can take

Palamon

Silence is Purple.

Age 26
he/him
Snezhnaya, Teyvat.
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14.3 Years
I always buy a new console/handheld in preparation for a new Pokemon game. So, yeah, I will be buying a Switch Lite for Sword/Shield. But not just those. I'll most likely be buying it for Tales ports too.