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Pokémon Scarlet & Violet sold 20.61 million units in first 6 weeks of sale. 4th best selling Pokémon game of all time

Serebii

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Just announced, figured it's worth its own thread
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IR Information : Sales Data - Top Selling Title Sales Units

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Sell through of 18.2 million too.

To compare, Sword & Shield did 16 million in this timeframe

Here's my chart of sales data for Pokémon
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Delio

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It's totally going to be gunning for first place by the middle of this year huh? Crazy
 
diakyu

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This is FUCKING CRAZY. I went into swsh assuming it was impossible for a pokemon game to break 20 mil again and since then it's been nothing but broken record after broken record. RB better look out when that DLC comes. What crazy times.

Also talent won, best pokemon game in a decade, etc, etc
 
TheBiInBilingual

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G'damn, honestly deserved, they're very fun games. Despite the glaring technical issues. Still working my way through the game. There's supposedly an update/patch coming at the end of this month too
 

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Apart from the performance issues, these are my favourite Pokemon games in a long time. I had such a blast playing these so happy to see they have done amazingly
 
g.a.u

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best game in the series but only standing at the 4th
smh
should have been more
 

Superking

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absolutely insane

also fairly insane, i believe mario kart wen up another 5 or so million i think from the last earnings report. most of the other games didn't seem to have budged much i don't think (maybe smash?)
 
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Despite the flaws and clear lack of polish, I enjoyed it.

Deserves those sales a hell of a lot more than Sword and Shield did at least.
 
cw_sasuke

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A couple years ago some people said that sales would suffer because the games would be full price console titles compared to the cheaper handheld software prices.

lol
 
mrgoomba

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Now they can use the money to fix the bugs and performance so I would gladly buy it to add 1 to the numbers
 
WhiteRabbitEXE

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JFC, DLC could feasibly push this to gen 1 territory. Wasn't that long ago that I thought passing Gen 2 was impossible, and now it's happening twice in a row.

Also wild how Let's Go, Arceus, and BD/SP are all going to settle around the ~16m mark that was the mainline standard sales from Gen 3-7 (still crazy how rigidly that number held for 5 straight generations too).

15 million is basically the hard floor for any GameFreak Pokémon RPG. Now if only production values would match that, lol.

cyba89 said:
What a shame for such a lackluster and broken game.
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Broken? Yeah. Lackluster? Nah. It's definitely a high point for the franchise outside of the presentation.
 
Agni Kai

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Those numbers are crazy. I loved Scarlet, despite the obvious issues the game had.

DLC when
 
Delio

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cw_sasuke said:
A couple years ago some people said that sales would suffer because the games would be full price console titles compared to the cheaper handheld software prices.

lol
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Crazy to think about. Just how much more they are making now with full price console titles selling this much.
 
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Mario_Bones said:
Can they afford a patch now
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Patch is coming at end of the month :)
Dougieflesh said:
Yeah word of mouth on Scarlet/Violet has been great. This isn't a surprise.
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Yep. Most people outside of hardcore gaming spheres barely notice or just shrug off the technical issues. It's definitely something that us hardcore communities hyperfixate on that the wider audience doesn't really care about.

General word of mouth and enjoyment of SV has been high
 
dom

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If the sellthrough is 18, then shouldnt the 20 be noted as shipped
 
Watershed

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Say what you will, the Pokemon brand is as strong as ever. I can't say these sales are well deserved based on my own experience with Violet, but I'm glad people are loving these games.
 
Crayolan

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wtf, that seems insanely high even for pokemon. It might be on track to outsell SwSh?
 
Zebesian-X

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Great stuff. Technical issues aside this was a big stride forward for the series. Looking forward to buying once they drop another patch or two, want the experience to be as smooth as possible
 
Madao

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there's no doubt things such as "performace" and "graphics" are meaningless for pokemon games.

in a way that's always been the case. just look at RBY. ugly as hell and still the best selling gen.
 
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Balbanes said:
I passed on it because of the technical issues. Is it in a playable state now?
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It always has been. A lot of the stuff that went around was embellished or manipulated. Most of the glitches like eyes popping out, trainers suddenly growing...yeah that very rarely happened. People manipulated it for socials once they found out how to manipulate it. I have like 500 hours logged in them and have not experienced anything like that. I accidentally fell through a wall once due to a problem in a small tunnel where I was pushed into subsequent wild encounters so kept getting pushed back, and the game crashed on me twice. Other than that, no unplayable issues.

It still has frame issues and dithering issues, and the box system is slow as hell.

There's a big patch due at the end of the month that is said to fix various things, but we don't know what yet
 
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Balbanes

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Serebii said:
It always has been. A lot of the stuff that went around was embellished or manipulated. Most of the glitches like eyes popping out, trainers suddenly growing...yeah that very rarely happened. People manipulated it for socials once they found out how to manipulate it.

It still has frame issues and dithering issues, and the box system is slow as hell.

There's a big patch due at the end of the month that is said to fix various things, but we don't know what yet
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Cool, I'll check out the patch when it drops. More concerned about general performance than glitches and stuff.
 
Homura

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Absolutely deserved.
I really hope it sells more than SwSh (trash) in the end, it's one of the best generations.
 
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Balbanes said:
Cool, I'll check out the patch when it drops. More concerned about general performance than glitches and stuff.
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I would say that personally the game gives me headaches with the low frame rate people/Pokémon in the distance, so I can't play it till after the patch. I'm not sure if others have that issue but I thought it's worth mentioning
 
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