Owning single version or both

Drayton

Drayton

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    When comes to pokemon games especially main series, do you often or never brought different version of the games or just buy one version of that game. Each version might have different gym leaders seen in Sword/Shield or pokemon you can catch on that version, just to get the version you wanted have to do some trading online.
     
    As a child I usually got both due to having nobody to trade with 😅
    Nowadays I get one version first, then the other like a year later or so. Just so I can have a game I can freely reset while keeping progress in the other.
    Though with the existence of child accounts on the Switch that's not really necessary anymore I guess.
     
    I used to have both up until HGSS (only got HG, but got all the Sinnoh game versions). From then on I just started getting one version only - that was enough for me - especially since they're almost the same game. It doesn't seem worth it to me personally to buy both, more so nowadays when Switch games cost $60+ USD per game. @_@ ngl I don't even remember why I had all versions up to Sinnoh as a kid, I had friends who had other versions to trade with. I guess it was cause I could replay one copy while keeping my main file in another lol. Deleting my first file in a Pokémon game has always been sooo incredibly hard.
     
    I always got only one version. Seemed pointless to buy basically the same game twice and have to play through it all over again. Not to mention that over here, DS games always costed the equivalent of $60+. Those were expensive stuff, especially for kids to get, and I am nothing if not frugal.
     
    I've only ever had one version. I did briefly own SoulSilver, before trading it in for HeartGold. I can't fully remember the logic though, I think it was because it allowed me to get quite a few Pokémon that were excluded from LeafGreen, such as Growlithe.
    Now I'm thinking I should have really started buying duplicates once I had disposable income, for when they inevitably break - especially given a cursory look at Amazon sees me potentially having to pay £100 to get a new copy of HG without the box or PokéWalker!

    EDIT: Oh, and I kinda wish I bought Pearl as the only thing stopping me completing the Gen IV Pokédex is Glameow/Purugly (likewise Rufflet/Braviary in Gen V, depriving me of a shiny Haxorus being the final insult).
     
    i always have both. sometimes i even have more than one copy of certain games aha. i don't have a copy of let's go pikachu tho, just eevee. i enjoy those games, but i don't like pikachu enough to be traveling w him like that lol. and then my partner has a copy of shield that i play on, but it's not technically mine so i still want to get my own copy eventually. but everything else, yeah, i've got both. i plan on getting both the new games in a couple of months as well.
     
    this is interesting, because if i were to be asked this when i was a kid, i would've happily said i would've preferred owning both and keeping the other for collectible reasons. nowadays? i'm content enough with a single version and if i need anything from another version, well, that's what the internet is for!
     
    Do I buy both? No. But it's easy when I have a fiancé who will buy the other version. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
     
    Generally nope, because they're basically the same game with a legendary I generally don't like. If i really like the game, i could consider that. But tbh, maybe nope. For example, pokemon diamond my fa game and i m thinking to buy the Japanese copy, but not pokemon pearl. Pokemon diamond, because diamond is my fav lol. I love palkia too, but idk i prefer having another pokemon diamond instead. So, in general i d say idc about the other version.
     
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