{"id":62140,"date":"2018-11-14T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/artificial_shortages_of_pokemon_letrs_go_eevee_rob_russian_fans_of_choice"},"modified":"2018-11-14T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T09:45:00","slug":"artificial-shortages-of-pokemon-lets-go-eevee-rob-russian-fans-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/14\/artificial-shortages-of-pokemon-lets-go-eevee-rob-russian-fans-of-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Shortages Of Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go, Eevee! Rob Russian Fans Of Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ff5d9de6c0cc0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ff5d9de6c0cc0\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Pokemon Let's Go\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ff5d9de6c0cc0\/pokemon-lets-go.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ff5d9de6c0cc0\/pokemon-lets-go.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Pokemon Let's Go\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Since the franchise\u2019s beginning, one of defining features of the <strong>Pok\u00e9mon<\/strong> series has been the policy of releasing two \u201cdifferent but equal\u201d versions.<\/p>\n<p>However, it seems that in Russia, some creatures are more equal than others. Local Nintendo fans have noticed that, while they could easily pre-order a Nintendo Switch console with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee\">Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go, Pikachu!<\/a><\/strong>, many retailers decided to <em>not<\/em> open one for the Eevee bundle.<\/p>\n<p>Some Russian stores have oddly decided to let people pre-purchase the Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go, Eevee! with no guarantee they\u2019ll get the version they want. One of them, 1C Interes, has confirmed to the local media there are indeed going to be more Nintendo Switch bundles featuring &#8216;a more popular&#8217; Pok\u00e9mon. We&#8217;ve heard this situation also applies to the bundles which include the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/hardware_review_poke_ball_plus_-_the_most_imperfect_perfect_accessory_you_could_imagine\">Pok\u00e9 Ball Plus accessory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The other one, Videoigr.net, have said the Eevee version will be imported to Russia &#8220;in tiny quantities,&#8221; adding:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We\u2019ll call that a mis-prediction of [Nintendo\u2019s] regional product manager, who had decided Russians don\u2019t recognise any other Pok\u00e9mon but Pikachu.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Incidentally, Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go, Eevee is more popular amongst Russians choosing to pre-purchase digitally. At the time of writing, it sits three points higher on the local Nintendo eShop top-sellers list than the Pikachu version.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Pokemon Let's Go\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ec987d4f04cdf\/pokemon-lets-go.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ec987d4f04cdf\/pokemon-lets-go.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Pokemon Let's Go\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Nintendo RU\u2019s PR could not be reached for comment by the outlet reporting on the oddity.<\/p>\n<p>In Russia, Nintendo has a harder time marketing many of its games and franchises, as it cannot rely on a nostalgia as much as in other countries. However, the Pok\u00e9mon phenomenon was always an exception to Nintendo\u2019s struggles with the Russian market, with many residents being familiar with the world and characters after watching the anime.<\/p>\n<p>While Pikachu may be the one everyone <em>knows<\/em>, the behaviour of Nintendo\u2019s Russian branch in relation to Eevee fans is a real head-scratcher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the franchise\u2019s beginning, one of defining features of the Pok\u00e9mon series has been the policy of releasing two \u201cdifferent but equal\u201d versions. However, it seems that in Russia, some creatures are more equal than others. Local Nintendo fans have noticed that, while they could easily pre-order a Nintendo Switch console with Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}