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While part of Scarlet and Violet’s record-breaking success no doubt has to do with how many more Switches Nintendo has sold in the three years since Sword and Shield, the fact that they are now the fastest-selling games ever released on a Nintendo platform, including the Wii and DS, adds a whole other impressive wrinkle to the milestone.

And it also shows that the games’ objectively rough performance, and the glitches going viral on social media, haven’t seemed to hurt the sales pitch for them one bit. Fans are still playing the hell out of these games despite the at-times Cyberpunk 2077 levels of bugs and performance issues. There had been speculation, and certainly hope on the part of some longtime players, that the widely criticized issues with Scarlet and Violet, which released within a year of both the Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl remakes and Pokémon Legends: Arceus, might push GameFreak to take its foot off the gas and allow more time in-between releases.

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That seems increasingly unlikely.