The figures were announced alongside a Western license reveal for Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction, which is due to be released in Japan this July. The movie’s licensing rights are bound to be snapped up soon, so an official date for 2014 shouldn’t be too far away. Here’s a snippet from the press release confirming those fantastic numbers, plus you can watch a trailer for the upcoming movie above.
“Pokémon X and Pokémon Y recently became the fastest-selling video games for the Nintendo 3DS system, selling nearly 12 million copies worldwide since their October 2013 launch and adding to the more than 245 million Pokémon video games sold to date. With more than 20 billion Pokémon TCG cards shipped globally and animation licensed for broadcast in more than 160 countries and in more than 30 languages, Pokémon is a long-standing hit among fans around the world.”
Nintendo bloated the numbers with a number of tricks, not a pretty thing
LOL all the Sony drones and Xbots here: damage control now
Yeah, Sony and Microsoft were giving away Pokémon for free in the last weeks
Bro, get out. Haters are not welcome here to shit on great Nintendo news.
And BTW, how’s it going with PSVita being stuck at merely 7 million in 3 years?
If math serve me correct they made around 480,000,000$ on those sales (roughly) so ….i would assume that means Nintendo is doing good?
Yes those tricks are called people buying pokemon.
You doubled owned that thing…
Look who’s talking. Activision tried that exact same shit with COD Ghosts when they said “We SHIPPED over $1 billion worth of copies” in a pathetic attempt to fool the public to think Ghosts beat GTA5 and took back its sales records which it didn’t since resources told that Ghosts sold worst than Black Ops 2 around the same timeframe of sale breaking records.
So, your move dipshit.
How plays pokemon anymore. It like the same game in every itaration. The only thing they change are the new pokemon they put in the game.
It will forever be a game for childeren.
And yet millions of adults play Pokemon competitively… Credibility just ruined
you fucking idiot are just too stupid to know how to play the game. that’s why you thought it’s for children.
do you even know it is possible to play competitively?
And yet, still kicks ass to this day and its basically not for kids since it has that competive nature and its a multibillion dollar franchise.
Don’t be jealous and just try the damn game to see why its fun or are you one of those assholes shamed of being made fun of by the wrong kind of friends you’re forcing yourself into trying to act cool playing repetitive gory shooter games?
Peter Fox… clearly you haven’t played any Pokemon games perhaps the first two? They add new mechanics, new types, new moves, new battle styles with each new iteration. X and Y was the best yet!
And motherfucker, I think you’re suppose to be referring this comment to COD which is a true overrated rehash garbage for kidults with no real competitiveness or strategy.
So you just got owned and don’t even bring up sales because I’ll have to remind your dumbass again that GTA5 BEAT COD’S SALES RECORD so come at me bro. :3
pathetic retard cod is for 17+ while pokemon is for 3+ pokemon is a kids game you social reject. lol
are you serious? well i shouldn’t argue with you since it will be a waste of my time.
And yet I still have no interest in buying it.
That choice of name with that comment is just too funny.
Go be a hypocrite somewhere else.
even though I don’t play pokemon…I’ll do this for the fans of the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy0Bvu7vy9I
Now Nintendo, GET YOU’RE CORE GAMERS BACK AND START DOING BETTER!
All this negativity on this site….. :/ The gaming industry is turning into something more like politics.
Blame the media, they turn gaming into political parties BS. its been like this since snes vs genesis days
It deserves those sales! Game is awesome.
Woah… Over half of the comments here are so negative… Cheer up people! :D
They’re simply jealous especially those who wasted cash on that DOA console PSVita.
Neat. Some of the suggestions makes sense. LAG FREE ONLINE NINTENDO :D
Thanks. Yeah online lag needs to be gone for good.
Maybe that’s why the graphics aren’t looking as good as people hope it would, so they can make online work seamlessly at 60 frames per second.
I for one think the game looks gorgeous, but other people seem to be nit picky. In the end, I’m just hoping for lag free online too!!!!!!
Pokémon online lag doesn’t really matter ur not in game like street fighter ur just pushing a few buttons and waiting
the power of god is real
Wow. So many fucking jealous ass queers bashing a multibillion dollar fun franchise that deserve those sales far more than COD.
Its a fun and strategic game at collecting rare creatures and train them well to kick everybody’s ass online. :3
1. These “haters” are too damn ashame to try these games because they want to look cool with their asshole friends so of course they bash as being childish and rehashing..like that’s seriously the only best weakass comeback they got.
2. If you’re a real gamer, you wouldn’t give a fuck what those idiots say and try thw damn game to understand its appeal and I don’t mean pick it up at a demo stand and play for 30 seconds and say it sucks which is invalid. Play longer than an hour or 2. If you don’t like it afterwards, its fine. But calling it childish and rehash is not working at bringing it down. Pokemon is still going strong and its Nintendo’s most important franchise like Zelda, Mario, Metroid and such.
Queers?…
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Found it!
Good boy, have a cookie…
Chocolate chip yum!
Oh man they better nail a far better lag free server this time. Brawl’s online was a huge ass mess and Nintendo did nothing to fix it even after they promised it.
amazing! I hope they reveal those leaked 2 spinoff games at e3 if they are real!(pokken + detective Pikachu….haha)
TOMMOROW IS SMASH DIRECT EVEN MORE GREAT NEWS TO COME OUT OF IT :D
good for pokemon
so I lost my game and….I cant will my self to get another one, knowing I will never use an mega Blaziken again
How did you lose the sacred game?…
Running with a open bag
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MY only problem with Pokemon games are how they’re always 2 steps forward and 1 step back. Pokemon that follow you, 60 fps, and the season cycles need to come back, Hopefully they’re added in the eventual Z version or the gen 3 remakes.
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Vita’s owner will be jealous for sure
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p-o-k-e mon
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