Parents: Did You Buy Your Kids One Copy of Pokémon SwSh or Individual Copies?

[LazyLain]

Inspired by this topic which highlights the fact that adults who buy themselves multiple versions of each Pokémon game is a relative rarity, but which I feel overlooks the most obvious situation in which people might buy multiple copies.

So... PokéParents of ERA, I'd like to know how your household approached Pokemon Sword & Shield. Did each kid get their own versions? Would they have gotten their own copies even if there was only a single version?

 

[Deleted member 14377]

Back in my day we got pokemon rake and pokemon shovel!

 

[Deleted member 426]

So just to be clear, was this thread made because you didn't quite get the results you wanted from that first poll, in order to prove Jim Sterling wrong?

 

[LazyLain]

So just to be clear, was this thread made because you didn't quite get the results you wanted from that first poll, in order to prove Jim Sterling wrong?

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No, and I agree with Jim Sterling.

 

[Deleted member 426]

No, and I agree with Jim Sterling.

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Well damn.

 

[gblues]

I bought a copy of Sword for myself and my son didn't get his own copy because he bought into all the youtube hyperbole over dexit and decided he didn't want it.

of course after seeing my copy he decides to play it and decides he likes it. 🙄

Thank fuck the Switch saves on the system, not the cart, so his save doesn't clobber mine.

For USUM it was the opposite—he wanted it, I didn't.

X/Y we got both versions, except they were digital and his copy of Y (digital) got lost when his 3DS broke and Nintendo couldn't find the license (it was a bundled copy, not an eshop purchase). Same with Sun/Moon.

 

[Lucas M. Thomas]

Two of my sons are old enough to play and enjoy Pokémon. One got Sword and the other got Shield. (I also played the Sword copy.) Between the three of us, all three starters were selected. :)

 

[RestEerie]

Back in my day we got pokemon rake and pokemon shovel!

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back in my day in 2000, i got pokemon red and played it via................no$gb.

 

[Andri]

Not a parent so i didnt vote, but back when i was younger my brother and i used to get a copy each, with me always getting the "second version"(aka blue, silver,saphire) since that is apparently the little brother version.
But then he no longer played Pokemon so it was only one copy after that.

So please parents, if you have two kids, give the "first" version to your younger child. It might not mean much to you, but it means a lot to us.

 

[WyLD iNk]

My kids are old enough to buy their own damn Pokemon games.

 

[Okada]

I have one child and I bought us both one copy of Shield to share.

Hypothetically, I would be willing to buy Sword for multiplayer but neither of us are into it enough to want it.

 

[twentytwo22]

I have a couple kids, but only one at Pokemon-playing age. She got Shield, I got Sword!

 

[MesaEterna]

Not a parent, but the best of both worlds is getting the game digitally and game sharing it with my brother. This saves us $60 and we can play it together online.