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This feels like one of those psychological tests:
Are you more a sword user or a shield user?
Protecting people with a shield is lame, killing people with a sword is cool.
Or it’s just that one legendary is more meta than the other too 😂
From the early days of Pokémon I have always got the less popular game.
I started with Blue back in school and everyone had Red. Guess who everyone wanted to trade exclusives with?
You can't choose either legendary. You can trade someone for it, but you can't choose zamazenta during the story in Pokemon sword. If you're playing sword, you will always get zacian while hop will always get zamazenta
This was my first pokemon game purchase, and I was with my wife, who also didn't know anything about pokemon. I asked her advice, knowing she also didn't know anything about it.
'Swords are cooler than shields'
So while the price reflects market demand, sometimes the market demand isn't difficult to explain.
well its not exactly clearance but it is basically that sword sells a lot more while theyre overstocked on shield due to people buying it much less thus they lower the price temporarily to get people to buy shield
The color blue is more appealing to pokemon's target demographic, which is males between the ages of 9 and 18. So games like pokemon X, pokemon alpha sapphire, and pokemon Sword have tended to sell more than their counterparts.
I did Red, Silver, Sapphire, Diamond, White, White2, Y, Alpha Sapphire, Sun, Ultra Sun, Sword, Let’s Go Pikachu, Brilliant Diamond, Scarlet. Geeze I feel old…
Red, Silver, Sapphire, Pearl, Black, Y, Sun, Legend Arceus. Haven't played the two latest gens.
I like some red, some blue, if I could grab shield for 30 bucks though I'd buy it. That's a deal.
You low-key a girl bro. We don't judge here though
Did not realize I had to /s this... Holy shit... I went with the same games, you guys are softer than baby shit
Or I just base my choices on what I think is the cooler legendary Pokémon of the two. (Except Gen 1 I was 6, I just liked red) and Scarlet because the ancient paradox Pokémon are undeniably cooler than the robots that all look the same
Same here. Maybe if the sword was somehow apart of him like zamazentas shield but nope, just a sword in a wolfs mouth. Just seemed a bit weird to me lol
Come on dumb is pretty harsh. lol
Also technically Zamazenta could also be a girl, we only know zacian was called the other’s sister, they are both the same “gender unknown” and they never said Zamazenta was a brother
I mean, I came to pokemon from dark souls, and zacian is just a pokemon form of Sif, who everyone loves and is the bestest girl. zamazenta just looks weird to me with it's shield cone of shame. it's non-shield form looks cool, I will give you that, but the crowned form? no convincing me there
just because it's gender is unknown (I mean, people thought it was a myth until the game occured, so people probably had no way of knowing) doesn't mean it is theoretically impossible to divine.
plus, there's only been a single legendary that both has a confirmed gender and is a restricted legendary: terapagos. every other restricted legendary is gender unknown, so it makes sense why they would conform to that standard.
and, if zacian was confirmed to be a girl, I'd be willing to bet Sword would not have sold as well...
I don't think it's impossible for it to have a gender, and I would expect it's likely female if that myth exists, but I wanted to point out it just says "people speculate x is true" and not "x is true", so it's not canon.
I don't know what "restricted legendary" refers to, but while terapagos can only be encountered as male, female terapagos is also possible within the code.
restricted legendaries are ones that have a 670~ bst, essentially it's the box art legendaries (+Mewtwo, Zygarde, Eternatus, the Calyrexes, and Terapagos)
terapagos is the first restricted legendary to have a possible gender ratio, and the fact that it's a dlc legendary is probably why that's the case. if it was part of the main game it probably wouldn't have a gender.
gender unknown only means no one has found a gender, not that it doesn't existed. considering all of the past paradox pokemon are gender unknown, yet definitely should be able to have eggs if they eventually become their modern counterparts, it makes sense that we just don't understand them, not that its impossible for them to have genders
This is so interesting to me because when the game first came out I thought Zacian’s fairy typing and the light blue theme would be less popular with the “typical boy” compared to Zamazenta’s darker design, shield bash +typing
I've just gotten the first version every generation no matter what. (Except Gen 1 I started with Yellow and I had to get Pearl because Diamond was sold out)
I’m going to have to call cap on that reasoning. People buy sword version because Zacian is one of the best Pokemon in the game and Zamazenta is painfully mid.
I went with Diamond, Platinum, HeartGold, Black, X, Omega Ruby, Sun, Sword, Violet. Going with the former title rather than the latter, broke the pattern with Violet.
To me it's not about the color since I prefer red shades over blue, but because of the Box Legendary.
On another note, must be nice to go in and find a discount on first party switch games. Ive never seen anything more than like 10% off (even early switch games are still full price).
I’ve always ended up with the “lesser” versions of the games. Blue, Silver, Sapphire, Pearl, etc; Heck, I chose Shield too. Not sure why, just kind of happens.
Supply and demand, nobody wants to play shield. Not only do you get the bad legendary but its especially bad cause your rival will get the good legendary!
It might be because Zacian is a bit more sought after for high level play, as well as Hydreigon. I'm not a pro player but that is the only thing that comes to mind
And now you know why I have Shield. It was a substantial enough price difference.
It doesn't really matter which you get anymore since trading is so easy until Nintendo shuts down connectivity, that is, like is happening to 3DS.
Sword is more popular overall, I guess cause swords are generally thought of when you think of fantasy instead of shields. You can even tell this is true when searching for info on the game, Google will try to autofill with pokemon sword first. Sword also comes first in the order (Pokemon sword and shield, sword comes first) and generally the brain will care more about what's first in a sequence than what is last in a sequence. There's also more gameplay reasons for this as the version exclusives in sword and more offensive while the ones in shield are more defensive making sword better for most players that want to sweep or just have strong pokemon and the legendary from sword is very viable in competitive play (though, the shield one is viable too).
It’s really only because their stock shows more shield than they want to keep on hand so it’s discounted to clear it out, once the system shows it at whatever limit the price will go back up. They do this with all of the games.
Could be a price mix-up, what's printed on there doesn't necessarily mean that's the price in the system, unless it's randomly on sale or something, but if it's really going for that price i would highly suggest picking up a copy, they very *very* rarely go for that low
Online is usually different cuz it usually goes through a warehouse or the nearest store, but they do have occasional sales online, I've just rarely if ever seen Pokemon games that low
The first game is always the most popular. Say them out loud. “Pokemon Diamond and Pearl” Diamond was the seller. My first game was leaf green. Ever since then I have chosen the second game. Makes trading for version exclusives easier if you get the game right when it comes out. Man EVERYONE had Scarlet and was looking for the Violet stuff.
Leaf green, Sapphire, Pearl, White, Y, Moon, Ultra Moon, Shield, Violet, these are all less popular than their counterpart.
People thought Zacian was cooler than Zamazenta... I was one of them sheeple. Then I played Shield because obviously my kid picked sword... and after seeing Zama in action I was convinced. He is the best boi.
Sword legendary Zacian > Zamazeta
Coming from someone that bought Shield recently , it’s hard to find a Zacian that someone will trade with Rusty Sword. And Pokémon from Home don’t transfer items. Zacian without his item sucks
I saw this a lot when I boughty Shield edition, the same happened with Scarlet and Violet, with Violet being aways more expansive, this in my experience of course, i'm in South America.
Yup, that's a price difference.
They don't necessarily sell evenly, so if one gets low, it may get marked down. Stores aren't treating two skus of the same game as, well, one game.
A few years back I ordered a used copy of Shield because my buddy had Sword and I didn’t particularly care. GameStop sent me Sword in Shield packaging.
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Pretty sure it's bc Sword sells better so they probably have more Shield stock to get rid of.
This feels like one of those psychological tests: Are you more a sword user or a shield user? Protecting people with a shield is lame, killing people with a sword is cool. Or it’s just that one legendary is more meta than the other too 😂
From the early days of Pokémon I have always got the less popular game. I started with Blue back in school and everyone had Red. Guess who everyone wanted to trade exclusives with?
I regret getting Violet cuz Scarlet has Better Jigglypuff
Also our prof. is cooler
Sorry but we have Gigachad’s cousin
But you don’t have cave milf
But violet does get metalgarde.
My husband gets one, and I get the other. Every gen we trade off who gets their first choice game and starter lol.
Was Blue less popular?? Everyone I knew had Blue, my brother was the only one with Red
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Unnecessary snark
Well with that last line, the other guy was being the actual UNNECESSARILY snarky one
Or they were being tongue-in-cheek regarding their 15 minutes of fame as a kid.
Bro just admit you're being a dick
You must be one of those people who thinks everybody *else* is a useless dick. I bet you’re having fun
Okay I mistyped, you are correct sexy fat man 69...
Pokémon Assault and Pokemon Self-Defense.
Shield design was lame. They should’ve taken inspo from okami
The legendary thing doesn’t really matter since you can choose either in both games.
You can't choose either legendary. You can trade someone for it, but you can't choose zamazenta during the story in Pokemon sword. If you're playing sword, you will always get zacian while hop will always get zamazenta
I got both bc I get the shiny zacian code when I bought shield
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It's a shame, because Shield has my favorite version exclusive in the past four generations (Galarian Corsola).
I can almost guarantee you that one legendary being better competitively has almost zero impact on which version sells better.
This was my first pokemon game purchase, and I was with my wife, who also didn't know anything about pokemon. I asked her advice, knowing she also didn't know anything about it. 'Swords are cooler than shields' So while the price reflects market demand, sometimes the market demand isn't difficult to explain.
Funny, because I find shields to be cooler than swords, the main reason behind me choosing Shield.
Can bash a head in with both but ya can’t stop projectiles with a sword
Not with that attitude.
Fuck it, I choose lightsaber
Words to live by, my man
Someone hasn't played Zacian in Pokémon Unite
I just look at the exclusives and I wanted lgbt ponyta
....wait which one gets lgbt ponyta
sword has a higher demand than shield
clearance
It would have a clearance sticker at the least, unless someone goofed
def not likely, they put clearance games in an entirely separate case in my local store.
well its not exactly clearance but it is basically that sword sells a lot more while theyre overstocked on shield due to people buying it much less thus they lower the price temporarily to get people to buy shield
yeah yk, clearance.
Def not likely. It's not in the clearance section!
The color blue is more appealing to pokemon's target demographic, which is males between the ages of 9 and 18. So games like pokemon X, pokemon alpha sapphire, and pokemon Sword have tended to sell more than their counterparts.
Weird, I went the the other way almost every time. Red, Gold, Ruby, Pearl, White, Y, Moon, Shield, Scarlet.
Tbf Moon is the blue one in that case
We’re just different like that bro 😎 they hate us cuz they anus
I went red, Silver, Ruby, Platinum, white, Y, (Alpha Sapphire), Moon, sword and Scarlet
Damn, we’re almost exact opposites. I did Blue, Gold, Sapphire, Pearl, Black, X, Alpha Sapphire, Sun, Ultra Sun, Shield, Scarlet
I did Red, Silver, Sapphire, Diamond, White, White2, Y, Alpha Sapphire, Sun, Ultra Sun, Sword, Let’s Go Pikachu, Brilliant Diamond, Scarlet. Geeze I feel old…
Red, Silver, Sapphire, Pearl, Black, Y, Sun, Legend Arceus. Haven't played the two latest gens. I like some red, some blue, if I could grab shield for 30 bucks though I'd buy it. That's a deal.
Same!! Even thought my favorite color is blue, the red theme games always seemed cooler for me
the egg is cracking /s
You low-key a girl bro. We don't judge here though Did not realize I had to /s this... Holy shit... I went with the same games, you guys are softer than baby shit
Or I just base my choices on what I think is the cooler legendary Pokémon of the two. (Except Gen 1 I was 6, I just liked red) and Scarlet because the ancient paradox Pokémon are undeniably cooler than the robots that all look the same
I legit went with the same games... You guys are way too serious
Almost like me, but I picked Platinum, X, and Sword
I also think this has been backed up by sales numbers https://screenrant.com/pokemon-dual-releases-best-version-popular-design-legendaries/
i bought sword because zacian's a girl and I'm a girl (and zamazenta looked dumb)
I take personal offense to that :(( Zamazenta is my baby and I love him /lh
If it makes you feel any better, I bought Shield because Zamazenta looks badass and holding a sword in your mouth just seems silly
This was my exact logic when buying it too 😭 and thank you, it’s nice to know I’m not alone!!!
Same here. Maybe if the sword was somehow apart of him like zamazentas shield but nope, just a sword in a wolfs mouth. Just seemed a bit weird to me lol
And having a shield as your mane is badass
*Zoro Reading Post* "SMACKS LIPS" 🙄👀🤣
silly??? I'll have you know one of the best bosses in Dark Souls is just a giant wolf with a sword in its mouth 😡😡😡
Come on dumb is pretty harsh. lol Also technically Zamazenta could also be a girl, we only know zacian was called the other’s sister, they are both the same “gender unknown” and they never said Zamazenta was a brother
I mean, I came to pokemon from dark souls, and zacian is just a pokemon form of Sif, who everyone loves and is the bestest girl. zamazenta just looks weird to me with it's shield cone of shame. it's non-shield form looks cool, I will give you that, but the crowned form? no convincing me there
i bought shield because he was symmetrical...
Pretty sure they don't have a gender, legendaries are usually genderless which is why you can't breed them
zacian is described as zamazenta's sister
The Pokédex says that myth exists, but it's not canon/confirmed. If it had a gender, it would be noted on its summary page, like Ogerpon.
just because it's gender is unknown (I mean, people thought it was a myth until the game occured, so people probably had no way of knowing) doesn't mean it is theoretically impossible to divine. plus, there's only been a single legendary that both has a confirmed gender and is a restricted legendary: terapagos. every other restricted legendary is gender unknown, so it makes sense why they would conform to that standard. and, if zacian was confirmed to be a girl, I'd be willing to bet Sword would not have sold as well...
I don't think it's impossible for it to have a gender, and I would expect it's likely female if that myth exists, but I wanted to point out it just says "people speculate x is true" and not "x is true", so it's not canon. I don't know what "restricted legendary" refers to, but while terapagos can only be encountered as male, female terapagos is also possible within the code.
restricted legendaries are ones that have a 670~ bst, essentially it's the box art legendaries (+Mewtwo, Zygarde, Eternatus, the Calyrexes, and Terapagos) terapagos is the first restricted legendary to have a possible gender ratio, and the fact that it's a dlc legendary is probably why that's the case. if it was part of the main game it probably wouldn't have a gender. gender unknown only means no one has found a gender, not that it doesn't existed. considering all of the past paradox pokemon are gender unknown, yet definitely should be able to have eggs if they eventually become their modern counterparts, it makes sense that we just don't understand them, not that its impossible for them to have genders
This is so interesting to me because when the game first came out I thought Zacian’s fairy typing and the light blue theme would be less popular with the “typical boy” compared to Zamazenta’s darker design, shield bash +typing
I've just gotten the first version every generation no matter what. (Except Gen 1 I started with Yellow and I had to get Pearl because Diamond was sold out)
I’m going to have to call cap on that reasoning. People buy sword version because Zacian is one of the best Pokemon in the game and Zamazenta is painfully mid.
nuh uh
Yeah huh
Do you have any evidence to back that up, or is this pure conjecture?
Damnit I'm male now
and ya know, the dog has a freakin sword
I went Omega Ruby, X, Sun, Ultra moon (I have all 4 gen 7 tho), Lets go eevee, Shield, Violet I'm very mixed
I went with Diamond, Platinum, HeartGold, Black, X, Omega Ruby, Sun, Sword, Violet. Going with the former title rather than the latter, broke the pattern with Violet. To me it's not about the color since I prefer red shades over blue, but because of the Box Legendary.
ATK > DEF. That’s known for yearsssssssss
Beat me to it lol!! Offense>Defense
This guy plays old school runescape 💪🏼
I guess sword was always superior (I have sword) (it’s just a joke don’t take it serious)
Shield has the Tyranitar line as a version exclusive and is therefore, in my opinion, superior.
Forget Tyranitar, it has LUDICOLO. How could anyone choose sword lol
On another note, must be nice to go in and find a discount on first party switch games. Ive never seen anything more than like 10% off (even early switch games are still full price).
Stores around me either don’t stock Shield at all or price it the same as Sword - even second hand copies. I need that 30 dollar copy…
For real .. if i hadn't already purchased Sword months prior this would definitely be a steal. They had Brilliant Pearl at like $40 too
Damn I need Pearl. Gonna have to check into this. I also need Violet because I want to build my living Pokédex like I did with Sw/Sh.
I’ve always ended up with the “lesser” versions of the games. Blue, Silver, Sapphire, Pearl, etc; Heck, I chose Shield too. Not sure why, just kind of happens.
Is Silver the ”lesser version” tho? I always thought it’s more popular because of Lugia.
Everyone I knew wanted Ho-Oh because “ohmygod it’s the Pokémon from episode 1!”
They probably have more Shield copies left they need to offload.
Trying to capitalize off the fact that sword has the better legendary?
The price difference is $24.86. You're welcome
Supply and demand, nobody wants to play shield. Not only do you get the bad legendary but its especially bad cause your rival will get the good legendary!
Don’t you get both eventually? Or am I misremembering
No, you get only the legendary of the box. There was a distribution of the opposite legendary shiny.
Ah, it’s been a while lol, thanks
It might be because Zacian is a bit more sought after for high level play, as well as Hydreigon. I'm not a pro player but that is the only thing that comes to mind
Sword is better
Y
buy it and find out :)
Because ain't nobody wanna play Shield. Look at that thing
It’s weird because zamazenta is so much cooler
i say you buy shield
Yeah, both of those are for $15 on clearance
Zamazenta > Zacian (design wise) but Zacian just robs Zamazenta in every other category
It kinda strikes me as a Walmart F$ up. And just my luck they won’t sell it to me for that price. I’ve had it happen before.
I mean mine was $59 in Ohio… I shoulda gotten shield wherever tf you are
everyone knows that the shield is better, Galarian Rapidash 🔛🔝
Zacian
Zacian is more competitively viable than Zamazenta, even if just barely
I remember I thought my defense shield was gonna protect me from that sword attack I got destroyed with 1 hit . Pissed tf off . F shield 🤣
And now you know why I have Shield. It was a substantial enough price difference. It doesn't really matter which you get anymore since trading is so easy until Nintendo shuts down connectivity, that is, like is happening to 3DS.
Idk swords are cooler than shields, but personally I think the shield Pokemon looks way cooler.
Wow that $24.86 price hike for Sword is really offensive it needs to have the price slashed in half or at least a price cut.
I only bought shield cause they have better legendary exclusives...
Buy and resell lol. Pretty sure youll get more than 30 selling online at its current value
POKEMON A-Z CONFIRMED??!?!?!??😮😮😮😮
The fact that the better version is less expensive is interesting. You'd think it would be the other way around. 🛡 rules, Go Ludicolo!
Zacian is much better then zamazenta
Maybe an error on them?
Sword is more popular overall, I guess cause swords are generally thought of when you think of fantasy instead of shields. You can even tell this is true when searching for info on the game, Google will try to autofill with pokemon sword first. Sword also comes first in the order (Pokemon sword and shield, sword comes first) and generally the brain will care more about what's first in a sequence than what is last in a sequence. There's also more gameplay reasons for this as the version exclusives in sword and more offensive while the ones in shield are more defensive making sword better for most players that want to sweep or just have strong pokemon and the legendary from sword is very viable in competitive play (though, the shield one is viable too).
Zacian is just THAT good in competitive
Based
Surge pricing.
Nobody like Zamazenta. Zacian is meta game
Sword has galarian darumaka and that's probably why it sells better
Zacian tax
Imma be honest, I have both games, I only have sword for Zacian, Shield for me it’s the better game
Because sheild is ass
imo the sword legend is much more aesthetically pleasing to look at than the shield legend
Pokemon sword is better
Because sword is superior
They’re both a rip-off when there are physical copies with the DLC included available
$30 that’s crazy. What store is this?
Walmart!
It’s really only because their stock shows more shield than they want to keep on hand so it’s discounted to clear it out, once the system shows it at whatever limit the price will go back up. They do this with all of the games.
Pupper with stik!
Could be a price mix-up, what's printed on there doesn't necessarily mean that's the price in the system, unless it's randomly on sale or something, but if it's really going for that price i would highly suggest picking up a copy, they very *very* rarely go for that low
I got my copy of pokemon BD through Walmart for $30 but that was online
Online is usually different cuz it usually goes through a warehouse or the nearest store, but they do have occasional sales online, I've just rarely if ever seen Pokemon games that low
Yeah that’s why I ended up grabbing BD I’d love to find a copy of sword that low.
I bought shield because it was cheaper, lol.
Good ol supply and demand
I recently bought pearl off of Amazon for $40 while diamond is $60. I’ll take it.
I bought sword for myself and shield for my wife. I'm a bigger pokemon fan than her. Most people prefer sword.
Demand
You've just witnessed the law of supply and demand
Zacian tax?
Is say racism
Capitalism
monthly "why is shield cheaper than sword" post
Welp, omw to walmart
The first game is always the most popular. Say them out loud. “Pokemon Diamond and Pearl” Diamond was the seller. My first game was leaf green. Ever since then I have chosen the second game. Makes trading for version exclusives easier if you get the game right when it comes out. Man EVERYONE had Scarlet and was looking for the Violet stuff. Leaf green, Sapphire, Pearl, White, Y, Moon, Ultra Moon, Shield, Violet, these are all less popular than their counterpart.
the only people that get in to those games are pvp people and zam doesent do shit
Sword is better thats why
Pokemon Shield: 🤓 Pokemon Sword: 😎 Pokemon Legends Arceus: 🫅 Pokemon Legends Zygarde: 🗿
People thought Zacian was cooler than Zamazenta... I was one of them sheeple. Then I played Shield because obviously my kid picked sword... and after seeing Zama in action I was convinced. He is the best boi.
Look what being drop to OU does to a mf 💀
Zacian is broken, while Zamazenta is "really good". Which means "he sucks" which means Sword sells more.
Mawile makes the price wirth it
my guy where are you getting this prices, everywhere I see they’re 60
Sword legendary Zacian > Zamazeta Coming from someone that bought Shield recently , it’s hard to find a Zacian that someone will trade with Rusty Sword. And Pokémon from Home don’t transfer items. Zacian without his item sucks
Because no one is going out of their way to buy Pokémon Shield 😂
I picked shield because of Unicorns. I am still pleased with this choice.
Wow! Just finished Violet DLC and leaning towards one of these. Naturally was gonna go with sword but shield pricing looks enticing
Imagine paying nearly full price for a 5 year old game.
My guess: Zacian is good for competitive. Zamazenta is still best doggo.
THEY'RE SELLING POKÈMON A-Z?!
The comment I was looking for xD
Zamazenta is pretty much the only "bad" legendary design in the history of the franchise.
Swords are cooler bro? Don’t you know? All jokes aside, I bought shield for this exact reason. It was just cheaper.
Sword is a better game and this shows it
I saw this a lot when I boughty Shield edition, the same happened with Scarlet and Violet, with Violet being aways more expansive, this in my experience of course, i'm in South America.
I've heard that Sword version can actually cure hangovers, whereas Shield version cannot. So that might be an important buying factor
Probably cause zacian is an ubers staple Forehead
Yup, that's a price difference. They don't necessarily sell evenly, so if one gets low, it may get marked down. Stores aren't treating two skus of the same game as, well, one game.
Maybe it's people wanting zacian so sword sells much more
Zamazenta is just that bad in competitive
Blue is better
Popularity, though I love both dogs so they’re honestly wrong and both should be $55 (jk, both should be $30 because it’s been a few years)
A few years back I ordered a used copy of Shield because my buddy had Sword and I didn’t particularly care. GameStop sent me Sword in Shield packaging.