1 Million Copies of Pokémon Black and White Sold in Europe

Yahoo!! This has got to be on of the best selling games ever! Pokemon black & White rules!

The Greatest DS Game Ever deserves this many sales!

This game is win.

It's doing great in Holland as well.

https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/ds/ds_top_10_list?start=60

Number one and two in the DS and the all-platform list.

They deserved it. Best Pokémon games so far.

Wow... that's a lot of people catching 'em all!

Thoroughly deserved methinks, I'm loving White so far!

Great to hear. Pokemon White is awesome!

I hope these games beat Mario.

Looks like it's a hit in Europe as well!

Well deserved sales.

You know, if Nintendo actually bothered to make a fully current-gen version of Pokemon, same game design but with really cutting edge technology and execution etc, I really think it could be the best launch of all time and break any previous records.

They just keep making these tiny little increments however and that makes it really hard for anyone that's on the fence to decide to jump in because I'm pretty sure that just like me they are waiting for a true current-gen fully featured game before getting Pokemon again, rather than a slight improvement on the last one in some minor ways.

Imagine if they go all out and make a 3DS Pokemon game that is basically the same overall design as the current portable games, with the same basic gameplay and viewpoint, but that has fully 3D graphics for everything (the world and charcters) and in actual 3D too, with fully 3D battles (like Pokemon Stadium), and a fully featured multi-player online with maybe even some kind of persistent world where people could walk around, interact and battle each other...

I think that would get many of the long time fans sitting on fence, who maybe haven't played Pokemon much such the originals but really would like to get back into it again, to jump on board...

I think the problem is with data. The games take up a lot of memory which is obviously limiting the games in certain regards. This one does have fully animated Pokemon sprites in battle though, that must take up a stupid amount and have taken a considerable amount of time to do for 650 different Pokemon.

I think it's a fair bet that the next games will at least have 3D battles, the sprites are just going to become unmanageable.

Well deserved.

Must be just me then. I'm currently trying to get into Pokemon Black but just not enjoying it that much...graphics and internet connectivity asides, it seems to be way too similar to the last game, and the game before that, and the game before that, and....well you get the picture.

Not saying it's a bad game (though it's not grabbing me as much as I hoped) but it's not thinking outside of the box and just catering to it's (admittedly huge) existing fanbase....as Kirk says, it's just more of the same with no significant additions or features to make any fence sitters think that it's a worthwhile investment.

I haven't bothered with the Pokemon franchise for a decade, and yet I'm still disappointed at it's lack of evolution from previous generation versions. I'll stick with it for now and hopefully it'll get better but I have my doubts.