Here’s How Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl Have Sold Compared To Other Entries

Nintendo has launched its 2021-22 Fiscal Yr monetary outcomes and these embrace up to date numbers for its long-running Pokémon sequence. 

Within the outcomes, Nintendo calls Pokémon a first-party franchise, which some won’t take into account true since Sport Freak, an impartial social gathering, develops many of the Pokémon video games. Nonetheless, Nintendo invests closely within the franchise, and Pokémon video games have all the time been launched solely on Nintendo consoles. So, it’s onerous to not name it a first-party franchise. On that observe, Pokémon was Nintendo’s most profitable property within the fiscal yr that started in April 2021 and ended this previous March. 

Extra particularly, the current Technology 4 Sinnoh remakes, Pokémon Good Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl, have already bought 14.65 million models, regardless of simply releasing final November. These remakes weren’t the one new Pokémon video games launched through the 2021-22 Fiscal Yr, although. Pokémon Legends: Arceus hit the Change in January and it’s bought 12.64 million models. 

Even Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Protect, which started Technology 8 on the Change again in 2019, had an amazing yr, promoting 3.18 million copies. And Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! bought a decent 1.25 million models as nicely. 

Serebii.internet’s Joe Merrick launched an up to date chart with the gross sales numbers of each mainline Pokémon recreation, which incorporates the brand new totals for the remakes, Legends: Arceus, Sword and Protect, and the Let’s Go video games. 

As you may see, Sword and Protect proceed to climb close to the highest, coming in second solely to the unique Kanto Pokémon video games. The Sinnoh remakes discover themselves positioned nearly precisely in the midst of the pack by way of gross sales and Legends: Arceus sits close to the underside. It’s necessary to do not forget that Legends: Arceus is only some months previous on the time of those monetary outcomes and a brand new begin for the franchise, dropping the normal Pokémon system in favor of one thing targeted on catching and studying concerning the Pokémon. 

Elsewhere within the monetary outcomes, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe continues to promote gangbusters – 9.94 million to be precise, bringing its grand complete as much as 45.33 million, making it the best-selling Change recreation of all time. The following closest Change title is Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which has bought 38.64 million. 

For extra details about different first-party titles, make sure to take a look at Nintendo’s monetary outcomes. Within the meantime, learn Sport Informer’s Pokémon Good Diamond and Shining Pearl assessment, after which learn Sport Informer’s Pokémon Legends: Arceus assessment. Take a look at the primary have a look at Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet, together with the reveal of the technology’s starters, after that. 

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