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[Penguin]

Much like in Europe, it dominates...

After becoming the most pre-ordered video games in Nintendo history, Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon – the latest games in the wildly popular Pokémon franchise – have now become the fastest-selling games that Nintendo has ever launched in the Americas. In less than two weeks, Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems sold a combined total of 3.7 million units. That’s an 85 percent increase over Pokémon X and Pokémon Y – the previous record holders for Nintendo’s fastest-selling games – during the same period when those games launched in 2013.

 

[GregLombardi]

3.7 million in 2 weeks is insane.

 

[Anth0ny]

fucking insanity

pokemon go hype worked

 

[jonjonaug]

>3.7 million

Oh, wow. Nice.

 

[Loris146]

Insane.

 

[Stone Ocean]

That’s an 85 percent increase over Pokémon X and Pokémon Y

Holy SHIT

 

[Chase17]

85% increase over x and y?

Wow!

 

[Makonero]

And it's a good game to boot!

 

[Mtheads]

I mean....I got it.

First Pokemon game I've picked up since Red.

 

[DriftingSpirit]

Dat growth.

 

[kng3025]

Dat Pokemon Go effect. Congrats to Nintendo. Still waiting for my copy to arrive.

 

[PSqueak]

I did my part getting it "midnight" launch.

 

[Brazil]

Eighty fucking five percent increase over Pokémon X & Y.

Holy shit.

 

[astrogamer]

So a total of over 7 million so far

 

[Madao]

nice to see the west compensating for japan's decline.

SM might outsell XY overall just because of that.

 

[L.O.R.D]

so,where the 10 million world wide goes?

 

[Vic]

Most successful "fad" of all time.

 

[Kouriozan]

After Europe news ealier today, here comes America.
Long live Pokémon!

 

[Already Torn]

I don't believe it, all the Pokemon fans switched to mobile, the traditional games are gonna die off.

Also, well deserved increase over X and Y!

Fuck you Tierno.

 

[Joey Ravn]

The king isn't back. The king never left.

Yo-Kai What?

 

[GDGF]

I wonder if Pokemon Stars for the Switch will be popular.

 

[Fantastapotamus]

So a total of over 7 million so far

sold a combined total of 3.7 million units

Edit: Oh sorry, I misread

 

[Neoxon]

Dat increase over X/Y.

Hopefully Stars can keep the hype going next year.

 

[friskykillface]

I saw so many people buy it on Black Friday
Shit wasn't even on sale and people still bought it

$$$$$$$$$$$

 

[MatrixMan.EXE]

But guys, it's just a fad.

 

[Ōkami]

Nintendo shipped 10 million units day 1.

Between Europe, the Americas and Japan they've already sold 7.5 million to customers, not counting the rest of Asia, including the first localization in Chinese.

 

[Lights and Waves]

WOW

 

[rhandino]

The king remain strong, it seems...

 

[kuroneko0509]

so,where the 10 million world wide goes?

that's 1st shipment, not sales

 

[Penguin]

Edit: Oh sorry, I misread

He means Worldwide, and yeah it seems to be sitting at roughly 7.2 million

 

[N.Grim]

Edit: Oh sorry, I misread

Edit: ok

 

[AquaWateria]

Wasn't Pokemon Go a fad though.....

 

[DKHF]

Nice to have a specific number sold. Has already sold a large amount of that 10 million initial shipment based on the figures we've gotten for the US, Japan and Europe.

 

[Brhoom]

I'll help and buy the switch version.

Pokemon Go really helped the series.

 

[Gilby]

First pokemon game I've played since silver. They've made a lot of smart changes since then, as it turns out.

 

[L.O.R.D]

that's 1st shipment, not sales

oh,i thought it "sold",someone in twitter said that and put a graph and something.

 

[Sephzilla]

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Pokemons longevity as a series is fucking astounding. There's few other series aside from massive ones like Star Wars or Marvel/DC that can stand the test of time for so long and retain worldwide popularity.

 

[rhandino]

Wasn't Pokemon Go a fad though.....

Pokemon is a fad! Will disappear from the minds of the mainstream by next year~

 

[Realeza]

Hot damn. Pokemon Go surely contributed to that insane increase.

 

[Nibiru]

I believe it. Even I bought and I am pretty much clueless about Pokemon. It's pretty fun actually.

 

[fredrancour]

makes me wonder two things about pokemon's performance next year:

-will there be any major spikes in Go's performance (gameplay changes, new pokemon), since that has shown benefits for the regular games' sales

- how will stars do? it's been so long since we got a regular old third version.

 

[dhlt25]

i got it and my last pokemon was yellow. It helps that my current gf is into pokemon too so we can play together

 

[Realeza]

Wasn't Pokemon Go a fad though.....

More people are playing Pokemon Go right now than whatever your favorite games are, combined.

 

[AquaWateria]

It goes to show that you shouldn't listen to GAF lol.

 

[JoeM86]

That's insanity.

My site has had record hits too, and we can see why. This is just carnage. Pokémon is back on top

 

[Jaded Alyx]

.......Link?

 

[SmokeMaxX]

Who knew giraffe exeggutor would be such a big hit?

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

It goes to show that you shouldn't listen to GAF lol.

Who on GAF was saying that Sun and Moon wouldn't be huge? 2016 is arguably the biggest year for Pokemon ever. Anyone saying that it wouldn't be a smash hit was delusional.

 

[Hero of Legend]

Waiting for Stars on Switch personally. Just not interested in Sun or Moon on 3DS right now honestly.