1.5 Million Copies Of Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire Sold In Japan Within Three Days

great news...

Pretty much as expected. Huge software sales, but not a huge impact on hardware. I imagine MOST Pokemon fans would have upgraded last year for X/Y. There won't be many that felt that game wasn't worth upgrading for but a remake is.

I wonder what's next from them. We've had a new Pokemon game for 3 holidays in a row now, but will they go for 4 in a row? It seems too early for the next generation, and they won't do another remake so soon, but they also seem to have dropped the idea of the combined versions from the older generations. Hmmmmm.

I wish they would take a small break from Pokemon and give us something different.

Or a spin-off game like Pokemon Ranger.

I will buy my copy this Friday, maybe in some stores the day-one was broken, but I'm not in such hurry XD

And I join the "Wander what it's gonna be next" mood; personally I wouldn't mind a slow down... I liked the new games so far and I'm impressed by how well they worked with the short development time, but an year is not enough for enjoy a pkmn game... I didn't play X and Y properly and I had to go back and complete White 2 very recently after discovering to my surprise that I didn't even visit the whole map of the game o_o;

+Too much copies sold.
-Too many bought both versions.
7.8

@Peach64 Not a huge impact on hardware sales? from 51,390 units to 83,129 units is a 161% of last weeks sales, or 61% increase.... I'd call that at least a significant impact...

@Tritonus They sold 215,000 3DS consoles last year in the week Pokemon XY launched.

@Peach64 that was a new game to be fair, these are remake....

@Peach64 Also, EVERYONE in Japan now owns a 3ds. so nobody left to sell to lol - hence the NEW 3ds! - which is such an exciting upgrade btw!

whats the combined number of the four 3DS models sold though ?, is the 83,129 only for the New 3DS LL ?

I had managed to order mine for 21.85£ for my girlfriend. Maybe...I may give it a shot, since I never played Pokemon series (and my gf is a fan of the cartoon)
Is it a RPG, does it have a nice story or something?

@Tsurii897 I have never been a huge Pokèmon fan, but from what I can tell, they have been making crapy-designed pokèmon for the last two or three games. This is going purely off the comments of others I have seen, so I can not be a true judge of this. I have been cosidering getting Saphire, but am still deciding. As a real Pokèmon fan, what is your opinion? Should I go for one of the remakes, or should I get a copy of X/Y?

Got Alpha Sapphire!

Joining the discussion... I feel like they'll take a brake next year. Or maybe they'all just give us 'Z' (or whatever it's supposed to be). Don't think a new gen will start without another gen 6 game... And the 3DS is getting kinda old. A new hardware should be announced at E3 2016, or even next year... So many possibilities! Let's see what's gonna come.

For everyone wondering whether you should start with XY or ORAS... Me personal recommendation is ORAS! It's a much more enjoyable game overall.

@BensonUii
People are experiencing too much water.

ORAS is beasting, but hardware sales still aren't touching last years.

That's amazing! I have never played a pokemon game before. I wonder if I should give it a try. Any advice as to why I should play these games?

Can't wait to play it, mine will still take a while to get shipped. I just heard the new version of the Route 120 music, and nostalgia Falcon Punched me in the face.

And I'm pretty sure we'll get Z around next year or so. If they make a nice post-game (XY's was pretty much non-existent), give us Battle Frontier, and enough differences (I'm hoping it's like BW2, there was a lot of new stuff compared to the other third versions) I'll get it.

meh, sadly right now nintendo knows that pokemon makes good money and wail they are getting out of the hole until they do they will continue to make these yearly thing I feel. I also feel once the new handheld that I would say will come out in two or three years it will be a couple years till pokemon is moved there. For the amount of time it takes to remodel the pokemon AND EVERYTHING ELSE I think my be a year or 3.

I will buy both Ruby and Sapphire when I am in the mood to walk to Gamestop which is like 40 mins from my house preferably when I get a day off work.

I downloaded Alpha Sapphire the other day, but I only got a chance to start playing it yesterday. I'm enjoying it so far; I don't remember many details about Gen III, so my experience is somewhat fresh.

As for next year, I think there will be a game that has something to do with Kalos. I have a feeling Game Freak isn't finished with that region yet. Of course, that's just a feeling, nothing more.

I'd say that as far as Pokemon designs go, Gen 5 (Unova) had some really bad ones, but also a few good ones (Hydreigon is one of my favs!). Gen 6 I thought had some really great Pokemon designs. I don't remember there being a major backlash to the Gen 6 designs like there was to the Gen 5 ones.

Easier Pokémon breeding and online connectivity has really boosted the community since X&Y. I'd be more than happy to see a new game every year.
@Grimlock_King
I've played countless games over the years, 30 years of gaming and counting, and Pokémon is my favourite series. So I can't recommend it highly enough

@Peach64 First, 30K + more sales for a week is no small feat. Sure, we've seen this happen with other franchises as well but this just goes to show that Pokémon is still a no brainer to japaneses on week one, even if it's a remake.

Second, probably there will be 4 in a row indeed, because next year we shall see Pokémon Z (XZ and YZ, probably in the same manner of black and white).

I agree with prety much else that's stated above